Red Priest
Red Priest at St Mary's Parish Church, Horsham
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RED PRIEST – Truly, Madly Baroque From £3.30
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About the show
Horsham Music Circle opens its 85th Season with the internationally acclaimed ensemble Red Priest, whose exhilarating performances have redefined the presentation of Baroque music for modern audiences.
Renowned for their virtuosity, theatrical flair and bold interpretative style, the group brings exceptional energy and imagination to works by Vivaldi, Bach, Handel, Telemann, Purcell and Corelli. Their programme Truly, Madly Baroque celebrates the spirit of invention, improvisation and dramatic expression that lay at the heart of Baroque performance practice, where performers were expected to embellish and reinvent the music before them.
The programme includes Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, the expressive Adagio associated with Truly, Madly, Deeply, and a striking reworking of Corelli’s La Folia, all delivered with Red Priest’s trademark brilliance and theatricality.
This promises a vividly entertaining and inspiring opening to the season.
Featuring - Red Priest
Piers Adams, recorders
Adam Summerhayes, violin
Angela East, cello
David Wright, harpsichord
The wildly virtuosic little band… entertainingly eccentric… great musicianship and irreverent humour… exquisite.” New York Times
From its origins as a young cutting-edge baroque band in the 1990s Red Priest has become established as an essential part of today's musical landscape, wowing audiences in all corners of the globe with its inventive, high-spirited, rule-breaking approach to music of the 17th and 18th centuries.
“I'm a terrific fan of Red Priest, who put the 'mad' into the 'mad baroque' — but with such style and inventiveness as to almost kick-start a new art-form… Summerhayes' lunatic arrangements will bring both quiet smiles and manic grins to every music-lover… beautiful counterpoint and effortless freedom with every phrase… This is world-class playing… there's nothing casual about intelligence mocking tradition like this. It will have required meticulous rehearsal, to be quite this immaculately crazy.”
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