enormously entertaining while genuinely capable of saying something about the music. Completely wild and deeply imaginative, the album marries the work to the spirit of baroque spectacle and Venetian skulduggery." MUSIC WEEK
This stuff is cheaper than cocaine, but there’s no way it should be legal." Red Priest’s performance on this disc is passionate but criminal, drunken and disorderly, manic and demonic, outrageous yet compulsive…. "If you think you know the Seasons, if you’ve heard it (or played it) far too often to ever want to hear it again – go straight out and buy this recording.
Red Priest plays this music with a sense of verve and élan, and, in the process, has created a true crossover recording." SOUNDSTAGE Read whole review "This is a performance that the major labels have been striving to achieve (and failing miserably to accomplish): attempting to cross the classics with modern sensibilities. Good show!" ALL ABOUT JAZZ Read whole review A splendid baroque gift that will be praised as visionary and heretical in the same breath. who irreverently and intelligently deconstruct these war horses and provide the listener an experience as fresh as a spring strawberry bursting on the roof of your mouth. "Red Priest is a group of very intelligent period instrument specialists with a red-hot wicked sense of humor. This is The Four Seasons like you’ve never heard it before”. If you buy no other Red Priest recording you should own this one!
Even the generally conservative Gramophone Magazine included it in their top four all-time recordings of the work, stating “there’s nothing like their blend of virtuosity and mahem. With this groundbreaking interpretation of Vivaldi’s much-loved classic Red Priest truly burst onto the international scene, and attracted rave reviews worldwide. Red Priest’s recording of the Four Seasons was perhaps the defining moment in the group’s career.
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