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Released: Jun 3, 2011
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  • Location UK

    Profile Views: 8898

    Last Login: 8/2/2011

    Member Since 5/28/2008

    Website redpriest.com

    Record Label Red Priest Recordings

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    .. .............. .. .. Red Priest is one of the major success stories on the international early music scene today. Named after the flame-haired priest, Antonio Vivaldi, this extraordinary English ensemble has redefined the art of baroque music performance, combining the fruits of extensive research with swashbuckling virtuosity, creative re-composition, heart-on-sleeve emotion and compelling stagecraft. The group performs largely from memory, allowing an operatic level of freedom and interaction, and its programs are drawn from myriad baroque sources to create a kaleidoscopic range of moods and colours. .... International music critics have described the Red Priest style as ..“electrifying,” “sheer daring,” “immaculately forged,” “sonically supercharged,” “brilliant and inspired,” “deliciously twisted”..—but the group's extravagantly baroque ethos is perhaps best summed up in the words of English musicologist and broadcaster George Pratt: .."If nobody goes over the top, how will we know what lies on the other side?".. .. .... ..Useful Links:.. .. - ........ - ........ .. ....
  • Members

    Piers Adams (recorders), Julia Bishop (violin), Angela East (cello), Howard Beach (harpsichord)
  • Influences

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Comments

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  • MArnIe DUkeman

    Enjoying your music.

    2 years ago
  • MArnIe DUkeman

    I really enjoy your music

    2 years ago
  • David Franks: Walkabout…

    (Hi - heard you on Radio 3, BBC, the other day.)

    After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on MySpace...

    Poem cum song 5 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (see my Blog for details):
    STATE TO STATE

    (TUNE:

    C F G F
    C F G F
    C F G F
    C F G F
    F G F C
    F G F C
    F G F C
    C F F F)

    From Sydney Town,
        In uni. break,
    I drove out west
        To earnings make
    Onion picking,
        On the fields
    Of Echuca,
        That year’s yields.

    After day’s work,
        From Y.H.A.,
    A group of us
        Would not delay
    To walk on down
        To the dirt rim
    Of the Murray,
        For a cool swim.

    On one such day,
        I do declare,
    Some three of us
        Had a big dare
    To swim across,
        From state to state,
    The wide Murray -
        I took the bait.

    Yes, foolishly,
        I took the bait -
    A choice that I
        Would come to hate,
    For I almost
        Did drown that date,
    Making the swim
        From state to state.

    (C) David Franks 2003

    2 years ago
  • Vince Pie and The Crumbs

    by jingo by george,we like the cut of your collective jibs. pies n luv. vince.

    4 years ago
  • David Franks: Walkabout…

    (Hi - just enjoyed my visit here; and your spots on BBC4, a while back.)

    After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...

    Poem cum song 2 of 230, walkaboutsverse. 741. com: WALKABOUT WITH MY PEN

    Once drove an old sedan, up north,
    From a place in Sydney to Cairns;
    Then to Kuranda I went forth,
    By train, to look without set plans.

    I browsed through the trendy market,
    With fresh fruits of tropical kind;
    Walked to the creek through lush thicket -
    Nature’s hand giving peace of mind.

    I dined in a scenic cafe;
    Then, outside, as I wrote for yen,
    Some passing Kooris called-out: “Hey,
    You go walkabout with your pen.”

    Request or question, I don’t know -
    Assured voices, elderly men.
    That’s now several years ago,
    And I’ve seen the world - with my pen.

    (C) David Franks 2003

    4 years ago
  • American Theatre

    Thanks, Red Priest.

    We're looking forward to your performance here at The American Theatre.

    Until soon.

    4 years ago
  • Quintetto Frontiera

    we never heard something beautiful like yours! eternal love to u! as soon as u'll come back in Italy we'll come to c u!

    4 years ago
  • Sanja Kasagic Galonja

    You are fantastic! Thanks for add!

    4 years ago
  • 4 years ago
  • Red Priest

    Hello Red Priest Friends!

    Have you joined our Facebook Group yet? Log onto www. facebook. com and search for RED PRIEST in the 'groups' search toolbar. You can recieve info about Red Priest tours, performances and reviews!

    Thanks for all your support!

    RP x

    4 years ago
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