For Kreutzer Quartet recordings click here: Kreutzer Quartet
Released in November 2022 by Métier, and available for order / download:
Mihailo Trandafilovski: PolychromyCover art – Joanna Jones.
With Neil Heyde, Roger Heaton, Hugh Millington, Saki Kato, Roderick Chadwick, Linda Merrick and Peter Sheppard Skaerved.
Released in July 2021 by Neuma Records
Released in May 2018 by Métier, and available for order/download on Amazon, iTunes and other music services.
Artists: Peter Sheppard Skærved, Roderick Chadwick, Kreutzer Quartet, Longbow.
More information (including samples) here: Mihailo Trandafilovski – Diptych.
Released in 2015 by innova Recordings, and available for order/download on iTunes, Amazon and other music services.
Released in 2013 by Clarinet Classics.
Download here: Magnets, Lava, Crystals
The download also includes a high definition video by Simon Weir combining filmed excerpts from the recording session with a conversation between Roger and myself concerning the genesis and technical aspects of the piece.
Released in 2011 by Lontano Records (LORELT). Order or download here:
Mihailo Trandafilovski – Chamber Music
Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor)
Quartet (2007)
1st movement, beginning
2nd movement, beginning
3rd movement, beginning
Kreutzer Quartet
A-de-scent (2007-08) from 1st movement
Caroline Balding violin, Sophie Harris cello, Dominic Saunders piano
Crystal Threads (2009-10) beginning
Caroline Balding, violin
Violin Concerto (2004-05)
from 1st movement
from 1st movement
Peter Sheppard Skærved (solo violin), Lontano, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor)
Weaxan (2017-18)
Outtake – December 2020
Sound: Jonathan Haskell
Fibers AND Coils (2015)
Outtake – March 2017
Recorded at Saint John the Baptist church, Aldbury.
Sound: Jonathan Haskell
Image: “Growth/bowstroke” by Peter Sheppard Skærved
Ripples-Waves-Bells (2017)
Hajdi Elzeser – piano
Sascha Etezazi – sound engineer
Recorded at the Brahms-Saal, Hochschule für Musik Detmold, February 2020
wind/hills/waves (2017)
Live Recording
Yoni Gotlibovich at Days of Macedonian Music festival 2018
Šarenilo (2016)
Outtake
Peter Sheppard Skaerved and Mihailo Trandafilovski, violins
Engineer: Jonathan Haskell
The titles are deliberately in Macedonian, not least because “Sharenilo” refers to current events in my home country, where a “colourful revolution” has been taking place during the last few months. Without going into detail, the protests started around the time I began working on my piece. For me, they have brought an explosion of energy (as a reaction to a lengthy suppression), manifested in some very creative ways of expressing the revolt, and underlined by inspiring and promising ideals. I hope that some of this character and energy has filtered through in the music. In addition, the current government in Macedonia has repeatedly placed emphasis on the links with ancient Macedonia. This is a complicated and controversial issue, and I would like to think of my piece as being a small, symbolic gesture questioning this obsession – but at the same time, the variety of strands and colours in the music parallel the character of Room 22, which, for me, emphasises the richness and diversity of creative expression in the Hellenistic world.
Six pieces from the cycle Čekori (2002-05)
Live Recording
1.March, 2.Drones, 3.Song, 4.In the Hills, 5.Pulsing, 6.Colours/Limits
Peter Sheppard Skærved & Mihailo Trandafilovski (violins) at the European Composers’ Forum in Ljubljana, November 2011
Recording courtesy of Slovenian Radio-Television
Ripple Effect (2010)
Live Recording
Ana Gaceva (piano) at DMM festival, Skopje, March 2011
Recording courtesy of Macedonian Radio-Television
TRI-O (2013)
Live Recording
mmm… (Reiko Manabe-flute, Kaori Ohsuga-piano, Shungo Mise-violin) at Suginami Koukaidou, Tokyo, October 2013
Četiri (2012)
Live Recording
Discussing ‘Magnets, Lava, Crystals’ with Roger Heaton
Video by Simon Weir combining filmed excerpts from the recording session of Magnets, Lava, Crystals (summer 2012) with a conversation between Roger and myself concerning the genesis and technical aspects of the piece.
‘Magnets, Lava, Crystals’ on CD: http://www.innova.mu/albums/mihailo-trandafilovski/five
iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/trandafilovski-five/id1022501197?ign-mpt=uo%3D4
Download mp3: http://www.clarinetclassics.com/shop/magnets-lava-crystals/
Chaconne (2022)
US premiere
Live recording: St Davids Music Series, Baltimore
St Davids Episcopalian Church
4th November 2022
Camera and Sound: Paul Ritterhoff
(S)PACING (2008-2009)
an Optic Nerve production
Director: Colin Still
Editor: Jane Clegg
Sound: Graham Williams
Star Factory (2010)
Live recording: Kreutzer Quartet at the South London Gallery, March 2010
Presented by Fuse Arts
an Optic Nerve production
Director: Colin Still
Sound: Jonathan Haskell
Ripples-Waves-Bells (2017)
Live recording: Hajdi Elzeser at “Göttinger Abende Zeitgenössischer Musik”
Clavier-Salon Göttingen, November 2022
Diptych – Violin concerto no.2 (2010-12)
1. Dance-Ascent
2. Song-Rotation
with Re-Veil-Le by Joanna Jones
Film by Dominic de Vere
Re-Veil-Le from Dover Arts Development on Vimeo.
Live recording: Peter Sheppard Skaerved (violin) and Longbow, Dover Town Hall, October 2013
Sound: Colin Still
Edward Cowie: Particle Partita for two violins
with Peter Sheppard SkærvedReleased in 2022 by Métier
Edward Cowie: One Second Fiddle
(A piece about Evolution for solo violin)
Mihailo Trandafilovski – violin
A couple of months ago, Edward Cowie e-mailed me to let me know he had had a dream in which he and I were walking in a wild estuarine habitat — he had a violin case with his old instrument, and in a conversation about music and nature, he told me that he’d had an idea for a new piece for me — so he took out his violin and played a piece that consisted of a ‘procession’ of ONE-SECOND pieces.
He remembered all the 55 one-second pieces the next day, and weaved them into a multi-dimensional work: a network combining evolution, virtuosity, silent gestures, non-verbal voice patterns, and other things …
This is a ‘live’ (one-take) lockdown performance — 7th February, 2021
Sadie Harrison: …under the circle of the moon… (Mansions I-VII) for two violins
with Peter Sheppard SkærvedReleased in 2015 by Toccata Classics