Thursday 28th January 2010 7:30pm
Red Priest
Piers Adams - Recorders, Angela East - Cello, Julia Bishop - Violin,
Howard Beach - Harpsichord
This extraordinary acoustic foursome is the only early music group in the world to have been compared in the press to the Rolling Stones, Jackson Pollock, the Marx Brothers, Spike Jones and Cirque du Soleil.
Founded in 1997, and named after the flame-haired priest Antonio Vivaldi, Red Priest has given several hundred sell-out concerts in many of the world's most prestigious festivals, as well as having performed in most European countries and throughout the world. The group has been the subject of television profiles for NHK (Japan) and the South Bank Show (ITV, 2005).
Red Priest has redefined the art of period performance, creating a virtual orchestra
through their creative arrangements, performing from memory with swashbuckling
virtuosity, heart-on-sleeve emotion and compelling stagecraft.
Programme:
| "Baroque Pirates" | |
| Jean-Marie Leclair | Tambourin |
| Giovanni Paulo Simonetti | Sonata in C Minor Op 5 No 2 "La Burrasca" (The Sea-Storm) |
| Tomasso Albinoni/Remo Giazotto | Adagio |
| Georg Frederick Handel | The Harmonious Blacksmith Variations Aria Amorosa (from Op 2 No 1) |
| Antonio Vivaldi | Concerto Grosso in D minor RV 565 |
| Tommaso Vitali | Chaconne |
| Giuseppe Tartini | Senti Lo Mare (Listen to the Sea) |
| François Couperin | Suite: Pirates of the Baroque |
| Antonio Vivaldi | Concerto in G major "La Tempesta di Mare" ("The Sea Storm") RV 433 |
Tickets £21, Concert Society members £17,
Seniors £19, Students £2
Accompanied children under 16 free
All programmes are subject to change by the artists.