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Red Priest - Red Priest's Vivaldi: Four Seasons (2003)

Posted By: tirexiss
Red Priest - Red Priest's Vivaldi: Four Seasons (2003)

Red Priest - Red Priest's Vivaldi: Four Seasons (2003)
EAC | WAVPack (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 50:30 | 294 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Dorian Recordings | Catalog: 90317

If you love Vivaldi's FOUR SEASONS, you will eat this up. The new tempos (which may be more like the original) take this piece from its previous iterations as a formal, Baroquesque piece to a wild, rowdy interpretation of nature's four seasons I mean, the actual four seasons. Spring has never sounded more like spring (the speeded up tempo reveals myriad birdsongs), etc.

Red Priest - Priest on the Run (2008)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Red Priest - Priest on the Run (2008)

Red Priest - Priest on the Run: Castello, Ortiz, Narváez, Schmelzer, Uccellini, Telemann, Vivaldi (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 324 Mb | Total time: 63:09 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Red Priest Recordings | # RP 001 | Recorded: 1998

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. They never go too far. In fact, going too far is beside the point in a style of music that so encourages passion and extravagance. That is the very lifeblood of this music. What matters is whether the extravagant musical gestures ring true. Red Priest always amplifies the spirit that already exists in the music, and gives me a whole new interest in this music. I say goodbye to boring, polite performances of Vivaldi and his contemporaries.

Red Priest - Nightmare in Venice (2008)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Red Priest - Nightmare in Venice (2008)

Red Priest - Nightmare in Venice: Vivaldi, Johnson, Cima, Purcell, Castello, Leclair, Corelli (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 322 Mb | Total time: 65:54 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Red Priest Recordings | # RP 002 | Recorded: 2002

Yes, there’s really a musical point to the title of this CD: most of the works presented are about or contain references to the weirder and wilder side of night, when creatures such as “phantoms”, “witches”, and “demons” arise to work their spells and haunt the living, and when nightmares frighten innocent, sleeping souls. And, at least as far as Baroque music goes, there’s some scary stuff here, lurking among the pages of scores that you may not have heard before, and certainly haven’t heard performed with the diabolical, fanciful zeal we get from the English early-music ensemble Red Priest.

Red Priest - Pirates of the Baroque (2008)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Red Priest - Pirates of the Baroque (2008)

Red Priest - Pirates of the Baroque (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 355 Mb | Total time: 65:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Red Priest Recordings | # RP 004 | Recorded: 2007

Album number four from the brigands of baroque music is a colourful chest of stolen musical jewels, featuring Vivaldi’s famous ‘Tempesta di Mare” concerto, a theatrically piratical suite of pieces by Couperin, the famous Albinoni Adagio and much more!

Red Priest - Johann, I’m Only Dancing: Masterworks by J.S. Bach (2009)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Red Priest - Johann, I’m Only Dancing: Masterworks by J.S. Bach (2009)

Red Priest - Johann, I’m Only Dancing: Masterworks by J.S. Bach (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 353 Mb | Total time: 69:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Red Priest Recordings | # RP 007 | Recorded: 2009

A brilliant and affectingly different collection of transcriptions of favourite Bach movements, at times uniquely exhilarating, at others showing Bach at his most expressively touching… Adams's recorder playing is musically dazzling…but the other players complete an ensemble which is delightfully fresh and alive.

Red Priest - Handel in the Wind: The Messiah and Other Masterworks (2014)

Posted By: ArlegZ
Red Priest - Handel in the Wind: The Messiah and Other Masterworks (2014)

Red Priest - Handel in the Wind: The Messiah and Other Masterworks (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 368 Mb | Total time: 71:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Red Priest Recordings | # RP 012 | Recorded: 2014

While Red Priest may sound like the name of a heavy-metal band, it is, in fact, a British Baroque ensemble of four talented classical musicians, folks who take a good deal of pleasure playing period music on period instruments in their own uniquely flashy yet dazzling way. On the present recording the members are Piers Adams, recorder; Julia Bishop, violin; Angela East, cello; and David Wright, harpsichord. As a measure of their typically irreverent, tongue-in-cheek style, the group, which formed in 1997, took their name from the Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, nicknamed "The Red Priest" because he was a priest with red hair. The fact that the name should also remind listeners of Judas Priest is part of the fun.