Red Priest - Reviews
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For people who 'appreciate' classical music but have a little secret -- it bores them -- the answer is Red Priest. The four flamboyantly dressed British musicians mug, throw funny lines at us and make us laugh. But something important is going on, and it happens fast… the process is effortless, a barrel of fun and almost invisibly subtle… immaculately forged and cunningly phrased…legitimately baroque and thoroughly musical. An electrified audience shouted and cheered.
WASHINGTON POST
A high-energy baroque hoe-down… [Red Priest's] performing style comes from pop-infused acts such as Kronos Quartet or the violinist Kennedy… unfettered interaction and spontaneity… a wide-ranging, unhackneyed programme… deliciously twisted, vividly interpreted and played with dash and precision.
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Nothing short of electrifying… combined a supremely accomplished level of musicianship with an almost superhuman energy and a sense of showmanship in a concert that will stand as one of the season's best… Purists might cringe at some of the liberties this ensemble takes, but it is hard to argue with the sheer verve and daring musicality it delivered Saturday evening. Convention? Better go somewhere else.
DENVER POST
Talk about selling your act. Red Priest does it in spades – and with capes, candles and compelling stagecraft… Their easy, entertaining style could have quieted the loudest London pub.
BILLINGS GAZETTE, MONTANA
In brief: Wow!… Red Priest has not simply jumped onto a rolling bandwagon. They've taken off the wagon's wooden wheels and replaced them with Michelin radials.
DAILY HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, NEW ENGLAND
The UK's most dynamic, theatrical and outrageously different baroque ensemble…Red Priest has the fire, technical ability and sheer daring to bring it off…brilliant and inspired musicianship.
GRAMOPHONE
Red Priest is a group that has it all: incredible virtuosity, a fearless, fiery, improvisatory approach and a rare lyrical sensitivity. The enormous liberties taken in these performances are the freedoms one takes when one is completely at home with the style of music... Red Priest is creating a whole new standard in Baroque music performance
AMAZON.COM
This group tears up the carpet, rattles the walls, and certainly will shake up its audience with rousing and original renditions of music by some composers we thought were much less, uh, 'out there'...
CLASSICS TODAY (USA)
A wild ride . . . playful antics and stunning musicianship . . . breathed new life into all of these ancient pieces . . . an amazing evening
THE POST-BULLETIN, ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA
Sonically supercharged, played with the intensity of any rock performance... The musicianship is incomparable. Dare to listen, skeptics; see if Red Priest doesn't convert you!
SWIRLPOP MAGAZINE
One can only wonder at the hours this outstanding ensemble must have spent in rehearsal·wonderful entertainment, a brilliant carnival evening.
EASTERN DAILY PRESS
Different from all others, in almost every way imaginable…They had fun, they played their hearts out and brought the venerated era to bawdy, brilliant life.
NEWS JOURNAL FLORIDA
Deeply and genuinely emotive.
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
Not so much reconstruction as total re-interpretation…they are sure to introduce a new audience to baroqumusic.
EARLY MUSIC TODAY
The effect is like crossing a Wigmore Hall recital with a Guinness-soaked folk session in an Irish bar…Piers Adams is the standout instrumentalist in this highly competent and infectiously different gang of four.
CLASSIC CD
In the hands of Red Priest, this music literally jumps off the page and into your face!... This group contains four of the most outrageously virtuosic players I've ever heard playing 'Early Music'
AMAZON.COM
Virtuosic fireworks…startling innovations…total conviction
YORKSHIRE POST
A joy to behold… absolutely incredible virtuoso skill.
VIRGINIA GAZETTE, USA
This isn't one of those groups that takes perfectly good music from another period and mercilessly mauls and hacks it beyond recognition hoping to trick the ever-evasive 'youth market' into thinking they really do want to hear old classical stuff; no, these four outstanding musicians simply take what's there--some very well chosen pieces from the 16th and 17th centuries--and play the hell out of it, in the best sense of the word
CLASSICS TODAY (USA)
Wild, flamboyant outpourings of virtuosity and emotion
KIEV POST
Yes, this is Vivaldi - but not as we know it
CLASSIC FM
Faint hearts should prepare themselves
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
For people who 'appreciate' classical music but have a little secret -- it bores them -- the answer is Red Priest. The four flamboyantly dressed British musicians mug, throw funny lines at us and make us laugh. But something important is going on, and it happens fast… the process is effortless, a barrel of fun and almost invisibly subtle… immaculately forged and cunningly phrased…legitimately baroque and thoroughly musical. An electrified audience shouted and cheered.
WASHINGTON POST
A high-energy baroque hoe-down… [Red Priest's] performing style comes from pop-infused acts such as Kronos Quartet or the violinist Kennedy… unfettered interaction and spontaneity… a wide-ranging, unhackneyed programme… deliciously twisted, vividly interpreted and played with dash and precision.
LOS ANGELES TIMES
Nothing short of electrifying… combined a supremely accomplished level of musicianship with an almost superhuman energy and a sense of showmanship in a concert that will stand as one of the season's best… Purists might cringe at some of the liberties this ensemble takes, but it is hard to argue with the sheer verve and daring musicality it delivered Saturday evening. Convention? Better go somewhere else.
DENVER POST
Talk about selling your act. Red Priest does it in spades – and with capes, candles and compelling stagecraft… Their easy, entertaining style could have quieted the loudest London pub.
BILLINGS GAZETTE, MONTANA
In brief: Wow!… Red Priest has not simply jumped onto a rolling bandwagon. They've taken off the wagon's wooden wheels and replaced them with Michelin radials.
DAILY HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE, NEW ENGLAND
The UK's most dynamic, theatrical and outrageously different baroque ensemble…Red Priest has the fire, technical ability and sheer daring to bring it off…brilliant and inspired musicianship.
GRAMOPHONE
Red Priest is a group that has it all: incredible virtuosity, a fearless, fiery, improvisatory approach and a rare lyrical sensitivity. The enormous liberties taken in these performances are the freedoms one takes when one is completely at home with the style of music... Red Priest is creating a whole new standard in Baroque music performance
AMAZON.COM
This group tears up the carpet, rattles the walls, and certainly will shake up its audience with rousing and original renditions of music by some composers we thought were much less, uh, 'out there'...
CLASSICS TODAY (USA)
A wild ride . . . playful antics and stunning musicianship . . . breathed new life into all of these ancient pieces . . . an amazing evening
THE POST-BULLETIN, ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA
Sonically supercharged, played with the intensity of any rock performance... The musicianship is incomparable. Dare to listen, skeptics; see if Red Priest doesn't convert you!
SWIRLPOP MAGAZINE
One can only wonder at the hours this outstanding ensemble must have spent in rehearsal·wonderful entertainment, a brilliant carnival evening.
EASTERN DAILY PRESS
Different from all others, in almost every way imaginable…They had fun, they played their hearts out and brought the venerated era to bawdy, brilliant life.
NEWS JOURNAL FLORIDA
Deeply and genuinely emotive.
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
Not so much reconstruction as total re-interpretation…they are sure to introduce a new audience to baroqumusic.
EARLY MUSIC TODAY
The effect is like crossing a Wigmore Hall recital with a Guinness-soaked folk session in an Irish bar…Piers Adams is the standout instrumentalist in this highly competent and infectiously different gang of four.
CLASSIC CD
In the hands of Red Priest, this music literally jumps off the page and into your face!... This group contains four of the most outrageously virtuosic players I've ever heard playing 'Early Music'
AMAZON.COM
Virtuosic fireworks…startling innovations…total conviction
YORKSHIRE POST
A joy to behold… absolutely incredible virtuoso skill.
VIRGINIA GAZETTE, USA
This isn't one of those groups that takes perfectly good music from another period and mercilessly mauls and hacks it beyond recognition hoping to trick the ever-evasive 'youth market' into thinking they really do want to hear old classical stuff; no, these four outstanding musicians simply take what's there--some very well chosen pieces from the 16th and 17th centuries--and play the hell out of it, in the best sense of the word
CLASSICS TODAY (USA)
Wild, flamboyant outpourings of virtuosity and emotion
KIEV POST
Yes, this is Vivaldi - but not as we know it
CLASSIC FM
Faint hearts should prepare themselves
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
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