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Chester Music Society Events - Red Priest Wednesday 14th December 2011 in St Mary's Centre, Chester |
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Chester Music Society Events - Red Priest Wednesday 14th December 2011 in St Mary's Centre, Chester
Our Celebrity "Christmas Concert" including buffet supper and wine.
Red Priest
Piers Adams - Recorders
Julia Bishop - Violin
Angela East - Cello
David Wright - Harpsichord
Red Priest:
Red Priest 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 the Cirque du Soleil. This extraordinary acoustic foursome has been described by music critics as ‘visionary and heretical’,‘outrageous yet compulsive’, ‘wholly irreverent and highly enlightened’,‘completely wild and deeply imaginative’,with a ‘red-hot wicked sense of humour’ and a ‘break-all-rules, rock-chamber concert approach to early music.’
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, including the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Moscow December Nights Festival, Schwetzingen Festival, Prague Spring Festival, Ravinia Festival, Bermuda Festival, and in most European countries, Japan, Australia, and throughout North and Central America. The group has been the subject of hour-long TV profiles for NHK (Japan) and ITV (UK) - the latter for the prestigious South Bank Show in 2005, which documented the launch of the Red Hot Baroque Show, an electrifying marriage of old music with the latest light and video technology.
The programme includes Vivaldi's Four Seasons in a unique arrangement for this group. Other works expand upon the seasonal theme
Vivaldi Four Seasons: Spring
Biber Easter Sonata: The Crucifixion
Van Eyck What Shall We Do This Evening?
Purcell A Midsummer Night’s Dream Suite
Vivaldi Four Seasons: Summer
Bach Prelude in D minor for solo cello
Vivaldi Four Seasons: Autumn
Johnson The Witches’ Dance
Corelli Concerto Grosso in G minor Per la Notte de Natale
Vivaldi Four Seasons: Winter
Tickets: £15 . Reduced prices available.
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