Mihailo Trandafilovski: Polychromy Peter Sheppard Skærved

• Mihailo Trandafilovski (b. 1974): Chaconne for Violin:
• 1 Trandafilovski: Chaconne for Violin 13:19
• Sandglass:
• 2 Trandafilovski: Sandglass 12:37
• Šarenilo:
• 3 Trandafilovski: Šarenilo: I. Mozaik 04:27
• 4 Trandafilovski: Šarenilo: II. Nitki 04:15
• Weaxan:
• 5 Trandafilovski: Weaxan 10:46
• Polychromy:
• 6 Trandafilovski: Polychromy 09:02
• String Dune(s):
• 7 Trandafilovski: String Dune(s) 09:15
• Grain - Song:
• 8 Trandafilovski: Grain - Song: I. Grain 04:21
• 9 Trandafilovski: Grain - Song: II. Song 05:03
• Total Runtime 01:13:05

Info for Mihailo Trandafilovski: Polychromy

This album, featuring several of the UK’s most accomplished performers, explores the Macedonian composer’s search for ‘chroma’ (colour) in both harmonic and formal structures, traditional and experimental sonorities and in a need for deeply dedicated performances of physical directness.

The composer’s challenging quest has produced a program of works with interweaving strands of expression, some of which were written during the pandemic lockdowns of 2020 and 2021.

Mihailo Trandafilovski is a performer-composer in the mould of Telemann, Bartók, Joachim and Liszt. Like them, it is quite impossible to separate his compositional and instrumental imaginations, and he exhibits a swirling yet sold inter-dependence between the energies of each. His contribution to the violin is extraordinary; his violin-piano duos (sonatas in all but name), concerti, violin duos, chamber works and pedagogical works are gifts for audiences and players alike. Previous recordings of his works have attracted glowing reviews around the world.

Peter Sheppard Skaerved, violin
Mihailo Trandafilovski, violin
Roderick Chadwick, piano
Neil Heyde, cello
Miyabi Guitar Duo

Peter Sheppard Skærved
is known for his pioneering approach to the music of the past and of our own time. He regularly appears as soloist in over 30 countries, and has released over 70 albums, ranging from 17th century solo works to many of 400-plus works dedicated to him, by composers including George Rochberg, Judith Weir, Poul Ruders, David Matthews and Michael Finnissy. He is a Grammy nominee, for his cycle of Henze concerti. This spring he has released five new albums, of Schubert Sonatas with square piano, Edward Cowie solos and quartets, Peter Dickinson sonatas, the Gregory Rose Concerto, and the first recording of the 100-movement Klagenfurt Manuscript (1685). His work with museums has resulted in long-term projects at institutions including the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, the Metropolitan Museum, New York City, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the British Museum, Galeria Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City, and the exhibition ‘Only Connect’, which he curated at the National Portrait Gallery, London. His ‘Tegner’, commissioned by the Bergen International Festival, a close collaboration with the major Norwegian abstract artist, Jan Groth, premiered at Kunsthallen, Bergen, and travelled to Denmark, the US and even Svalbard/Spitzbergen. He is founder and leader of the acclaimed Kreutzer Quartet. He is the ‘Viotti Lecturer’ at the Royal Academy of Music, he was elected Fellow there in 2013. He is married to the Danish writer Malene Skærved and they live in Wapping.

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