GYPSY BAROQUE FANTASY – THE RED PRIEST AND THE IMAGINARY GYPSY

Throughout European musical history, influential but elusive figures lurk in the shadows – generations of now forgotten gypsy musicians who have exerted a powerful fascination on composers from Biber and Telemann in the 17th century to Ravel in the 20th. An erotic blend of expressivity and virtuosity and a sense of freedom and rule-free, unbounded creativity made the musicians in this race of persecuted social outcasts a valued social commodity for centuries.

RED PRIEST
PIERS ADAMS – Recorders
ADAM SUMMERHAYES – Violin
ANGELA EAST – Cello
DAVID WRIGHT – Harpsichord

GYPSY BAROQUE FANTASY

GEORG PHILLIP TELEMANN (1681-1767)
Gypsy Sonata in A minor
Largo – Vivace – Affetuoso – Allegro

DARIO CASTELLO (c.1590-c.1630)
Sonata Seconda for violin

HEINRICH BIBER (1644-1704)
Sonata No. 1 in A major

ANON (c.1730)
Slow Road to Uhrovska

JACOB VAN EYCK (1590-1657)
The Nightingale Variations for recorder

ARCANGELO CORELLI (1653-1713)
Fantasy on La Folia

Interval

ANON (c.1730)
Sweet Uhrovska
The Village is Burning – Whistling 1 – The Reeds are Breaking – Whistling 2 – So Clasp to your Heart that Lovely Dark Girl.

JOSEPH-NICOLAS-PANCRACE ROYER (1705 –1755)
Vertigo for Solo Harpsichord

GEORG FREDERICK HANDEL (1685-1759)
Lascia Ch’Io Czadas

ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741)
Concerto for the Imaginary Gypsies
Allegro – Adagio – Allegro

Music arranged by Adam Summerhayes (Biber, Vivaldi, Handel, Anon) and by Red Priest (Telemann, Corelli)