CMNZ: Red Priest - The Baroque Bohemians

8.00 CMNZ:  Red Priest - The Baroque Bohemians

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.  But who were these 'Gypsy' musicians really?  Red Priest explores the link of this virtuosic folk-music to its classical counterparts.

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Programme:

MIELCZEWSKI: Canzona; BIBER: Sonata No 1 in A; CAMPRA: La Bohémienne, from Les Fetes Vénitiennes; BYRD: Gypsies’ Round; NICHOLSON: Jew’s Dance; ANON arr Summerhayes: Slow Road to Uhrovska; TELEMANN: Largo & Presto, from Concerto in E minor TWV52; ANON arr Summerhayes: Sweet Uhrovska; HANDEL: Lascia Ch’io, Czardas, from Rinaldo; VIVALDI: Concerto in A minor RV356; HANDEL: Largo, from Trio Sonata in B minor Op 2/1

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Recorded in Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ Concert

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