EARLY English chamber music is not often associated with daring musical virtuosity and swashbuckling stagecraft, but Red Priest have rewritten all the rules.
The group, pictured, who play Southampton's Turner Sims Concert Hall on Sunday April 27, have redefined the art of baroque music performance, combining the fruits of extensive research with creative recomposition, passion and inspired musicianship.
Named after the flame-haired priest, Antonio Vivaldi, the English ensemble perform largely from memory, while their highly imaginative act is drawn from a myriad of baroque sources to create a kaleidoscopic range of moods and colours. Formed in 1997, Red Priest now perform more than 50 concerts a year all over Europe and the USA.
Led by recorder virtuosi Piers Adams, Red Priest are involved in a five-year recording project with Dorian Recordings starting with their baroque-horror epic, Nightmare in Venice. Completing the line-up are Julia Bishop, cellist Angela East, and harpsichordist Howard Beach.
The concert starts at 3pm. Box office: 023 8059 5151.
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