Red Priest: The Baroque Bohemians - Gypsy Fever from Campsite to Court
- Date
- Saturday 16 February 2019, 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Piers Adams (recorders) Adam Summerhayes (violin) Angela East (cello) David Wright (harpsichord)
Heinrich Biber - Sonata no 1 in A major
André Campra - La Bohémienne (from Les Fêtes Vénitiennes)
William Byrd - Gypsies Round
Richard Nicholson - The Jews Dance
Anon. / Adam Summerhayes - Slow Road to Uhrovska
Georg Phillip Telemann - Largo and Presto (from Concerto in E minor TWV 52)
Georg Frederick Handel - Lascia Ch’Io Czadas
interval
Anon / Adam Summerhayes - Sweet Uhrovska
Marchin Mielczewski - Canzona
Georg Frederick Handel - Aria and Passacaglia
Antonio Vivaldi - The Gypsy and the Priest (after Concerto in A minor RV356)
The world-famous baroque quartet led by ‘superhuman’ recorder player Piers Adams and the devilish fiddler, Adam Summerhayes, transform into a wild ‘baroque gypsy’ band. They re-live the extraordinary virtuosity of early Bohemian Baroque masters, explore melodies from a 1730 Slovakian fiddler’s tune-book, revel in the gypsy-influenced music of Telemann, and re-imagine music by Handel and the original Red Priest, Antonio Vivaldi – all in their own inimitable, high-octane style. Positively volcanic!
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music, University of Leeds
Tickets: £15 - advance
£17 - on the door
Free - students and under 16s
