Good Times: The Red Priest A Baroque concert, tomorrow

Weekend Guide

The eccentric and highly entertaining UK-based ensemble, Red Priest, is to perform an extraordinary form of baroque music on Saturday, 7 January, 8 pm, at the Small Auditorium, in a concert organised by the Macau Cultural Centre (CCM).
A classical British Baroque band, Red Priest is like no other in creating music with vivid drama, often at terrific speed and with fabulous skill and humor, plus a lot of irreverence and absurdity, if not outright lunacy.
Founded in 1997 by Piers Adams, and named after the Venetian composer, Antonio Vivaldi, (nicknamed "Il Prete Rosso" for his red-flamed hair) the Red Priest have given several hundred concerts in many of the world’s eminent festivals, having shaken audiences at the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Moscow December Nights Festival, Schwetzingen Festival, Prague Spring and Bermuda festivals, where they have stormed to immediately gain international appraisal.
As the only early music group in the world to have been compared in the press to the Rolling Stones and Cirque du Soleil, these four musicians have been described as “completely wild and imaginative”, with a “red-hot sense of humour”.
Red Priest comprises on its tour line up recorder player Piers Adams, violinist David Greenberg, Cellist Angela East and harpsichordist David Wright.
Having redefined the art of period performance, these musicians form a virtual orchestra through creative arrangements as they perform from memory with astonishing virtuosity and compelling stage craft.
For this unique “Pirates of the baroque” programme, Red Priest will perform stolen music and long-lost jewels of the Baroque era.
Programme includes original arrangements on pieces by J. S. Bach, Vivaldi and Corelli, among others.
(CCM)


For more info: visit www.ccm.gov.mo or call (853) 2870 0699