Red Priest - Vivaldi Fours Seasons - Spring - Allegro

[veverel93]

i`m impressed... you are a great formation!!! keep going!!!

[teamjuano]

Speech less that like a new Vivaldi style playing ....so realistic sound of the birds...Never heard and felt Spring sooo alive......Awesome....this Red Priest

[scottyelf]

Amazing.

[suzeb50]

He's such a showman isn't he!! I own at least 3 of their CD's and watching this clip has pasted a silly grin across my face cos the performance is pretty similar to that which I saw live some years ago here in Holland. Are you ever coming back???

[lkjoeldev]

The dislike button is not the download button!

[2minstral]

Loved it! Added to the World United Music Website, under classic and new age classic music videos. Brilliant and also a favorite. 8O)

[1969SL]

We all heard Vivaldi hundreds of times but never like this. It truly stopped me in the tracks and I had to get this CD although God knows I have enough "Four seasons" already - after you hear this,all the other versions seem somehow pale and bloodless. Is it a gimmick? Is it art? It's wonderful! My own personal "Four seasons" favorite and I couldn't care less for academic,artsy fartsy approach of "real artists" - this is artistry for me and these guys would delight Vivaldi himself.

[francaisfreak]

Oh wow. Im learning this on the sopranino recorder actually but even still its very hard, especially those quick triplet arpeggios!!! but im getting there. Very impressive stuff! :)

[Crwthy]

Jolly good fun .. And damn good playing!!

[Musikcamp]

@Crwthy

You're right, but kitsch, nevertheless!

[PachoVila]

What's that piano specifically called?

[Redpriestbaroque]

@PachoVila It's actually a harpsichord! I'm not sure who it was made by without doing some research, but if you want more info on it let me know and I'll hunt down the details for you :)

[juanramonbetis]

Patético

[fhurvhur]

Great performance, thanks.

[LaPrimavera2006]

BRAVISSIMI!! <3

[carrotcakeagain]

I feel a little seasick after listening to this!

[yugandali]

Today we went to the Red Priest concert in Taipei. The concert was not what we had expected, but we enjoyed it greatly. Thanks!!

[lispts]

cara é demais, very good,this my favorite.

[howtoplanaparty]

Put it in context of the times -- there are no drums, they are playin Baroque music. Hurrah.  They are competent. Perhaps influenced by rock music -- how could they avoid it? To complain would be to miss the goodess that is there.

[howtoplanaparty]

The local events calendar said they play early music. But Baroque (council of Trent music) is not early music. Will I find any early music, by them, on Youtube?

[sweedlepipe]

I've listened to many recent versions of the four seasons, which are supposed to be different and modern. The only difference I can detect is that they play it fast and aggressively. A novelty perhaps first time but not over and over again.

This red priest version is yet another example.

You watch (or listen) when the next version comes out they'll go like the clappers playing it and reckon it's a new and exiting take.

Slow down and give us some taste, please.

[howtoplanaparty]

@sweedlepipe I think maybe some, of them, took drugs. That is how American bluegrass music lost its proper spirit

[edgar587]

amazing and sublime!!! wow!

[einmomolein]

Stop moving around, just play

don't add too many ornaments, or at least make some variety

and don't like the permanent staccato

[MrDavid0415]

Genial, muy dinámico, es una lástima que con la flauta dulce no sea posible tocar las notas piano como se debe, no es incapacidad por parte del ejecutante, sino más bien una imposibilidad técnica de su instrumento

[perronid]

Does he has a compressor in his belly?

Gosh those triplets with double-tounging are impossible to do.

If Vivaldi could hear it, he certainly would like it.

[recorderson]

Fantastic performance !! BRAVI ! I would play an half of Piers, in my next life ;)

[FABIOMOHRLEX]

MARAVILLOSO FANTASTICO ESTUPENDO

[Biankaen]

Hey I can play this on the recorder:) Love this part of the Four Seasons

[mexicanrecorder]

You are what classical music in this age should sound like. Impressive!!

You have a new fan.

[Tess5542]

Piers Adams your insanely good, i wish i could play close to how you play

BTW thanks for the workshops, on behalf of Waits thank you!!!

[LAMALCRIADACOM]

Amazing performance...sheet music pl0x? xD

[TheLousyCat]

Simply amazing!!

I'm quite certain this is how it was supposed to sound!!

Not like those boring orchestral interpretations.

I just love it!!

[fvelosa86]

Amazing recreation of what might had been in Vivaldi's head. JUST AMAZING!! outs the "four seasons" in perspective. Superb Work guys

[heroicomique]

fantastic

[AzzaBoo]

Rock'n'Roll!

Just like it sounded inside Vivaldi's head!

[thrashmetalisawesome]

This guy shreds the recorder.

[bonkersbananas2010]

Is he playing a soprano or alto recorder?

[happyey]

I think it's a soprano.

[MiraSekelsky]

He's playing what's called the 'treble' recorder.

I met him; he knows my teacher, and he came and gave us a lesson - he's insane, but great!

[EvaBartosova]

I am really not deaf and this is very excellently played! Perfectly. Many people are not deaf.

HRH

[EvaBartosova]

Fire!

[EvaBartosova]

Red is royal...read is heart... love... God is love...

[EvaBartosova]

Red is hot and hot is red. And what is hot is the top.... (LOVE)

[EvaBartosova]

But I know teology how was Jesus rich...also such that was poor, depends on the angle of sight...

[EvaBartosova]

As comparism of Carlton with pub of 5.

[EvaBartosova]

Glory shall be given to good things. They are on greater glory, as is greater holiness, so is greater glory and this has greater glory and value than pop. It is incomparable. Not many saved people are looking for pop, are they?

[EvaBartosova]

But Jesus is in heaven king and on earth was poor... Percent of his royalty is greater, eternality comparing to human life, so what is good is good and what is sweet is not bitter.

[EvaBartosova]

This level of serious music on the top of the worlds tallent and perfectness is not comparable with pop. Baroque is not comparable so much with pop as is not comparable classical oil paintings and masterworks with modern art of decadence for which I read are people excomunicated from catholic church. As king is not comparable with beggar. And Jesus is both. He was satisfied with royal things and beggars. Satisfied with cold and hot, not lukewarm and this is hot!

[luvelyotaku]

these ppl are talented... but i just prefer the original

[pinlighter]

What is the original?? That's something played in the 16 hundreds. Originally it would have been upbeat not the dour and slow versions you hear today.

Excellent band!

[luvelyotaku]

oh really? oops. well, then id have to change wat is said to : i like it better slower...

[GerardvanR]

It is not unthinkable that young persons who are accustomed to go to pop concertos with this show are also satisfied.

[eucarly]

I LOVE IT!

[archrelyrist]

SON OF A BACH!

Vivaldi would turn in his grave if he heard this- YOU RUINED MY FAVOURITE CONCERTO!

[beanNronin]

What Fun!

[TakeMeOut1000]

WOW! geniali!

[dreamsoftheworld]

love this melody ^^

[ptolemyupjohn]

Go and see these guys live and you will not be disappointed - they are brilliant!

[JamesMRaymond]

Just saw these guys yesterday and today, performance was fantastic.

[rpsalazar84]

Four season interpretated with recorder, I've never heart something like this, and sounds pretty good. Thanks, it was amazing!

[cpmegastarisdabest]

piers adams takes recorder to a whole new level :D - inspiring

[Mekhaman]

Interpretation is what keeps music alive and interesting to hear even after so many years since it has been written down to the stave, and this is proven magnificently and exquisetly by this group.

[hogrider9]

Wether you like this music or not. That was a Fu*kin' ACE rendition. Thanks for posting!

[giovannixie]

So cool! Caught the birds like I believe Vivaldi intended. Thanks for sharing!

[NewYorkHarpTrio]

Great work!

[urresti]

This guys are great.Dot.

[antonellolixi]

Really amazing! Wonderful! Great music and musicians! Bravo!

[alon4455]

Thank you!!! You give REAL INSPIRATION! Come to Israel!

[recorderson]

Wonderful ! 5 stars

[chantsun2]

THX FOR SHARING!!!!

[sritaandrews]

is the best quartet for me, they gave me ligth in my head, i am a musician and really is very very nice to know about ppl who make diferent music with the same notes, congratulations, come to México please!!

[thelightisahead]

I suppose people are going to screech when they know that I had the chance to get tickets to see these guys, as they are performing for the Three Choirs Festival in my home county of Worcester this year... but I decided not to when I found it was a small ensemble with mass arranging and modification etc. - I wanted to see a verion with full string orchestra etc., done strictly as Vivaldi wrote. Sorry, it's just how I feel, I still wish this group every success! They clearly deserve it

[thelightisahead]

Now I think these players are excellent, before people tear my throat out lol. Fabulous virtuosity all round. But I have to say I'm not a fan of the interpretation - it seems that the focus here is on the showmanship, not the actual music. Showmanship comes into all good live music performances of course, but shouldn't take over. Also, I feel that since this is a violin concerto, the focus should be on the violin, not on the recorder as it seems to be!

[dolofonos]

What part would you propose the recorder play?

[thelightisahead]

Well, in truth, no part, because Vivaldi didn't score the recorder in the piece!

[mwtakeru312]

actually the internet is full of people like you, no one will tear your throat out:-) close minded people giving useless drivel just to annoy people...sorry you deserve it.

[thelightisahead]

I'm sorry that I don't like every piece of music/interpretation ever - I just happen to prefer more authentic renditions. I'm sure whether I deserve it or not is a matter of opinion. I complimented the musicians but noted it wasn't to my personal taste.; you resorted to calling me a close-minded person and suggested I was speaking drivel, and worse, suggested I was doing it with a hate-mongering, vindictive intention (all on little grounds). I think I know who the internet type is here

[starcommander55]

There is a certain amount of authenticity to this. Large-scale words were often re-scored in this way. And the imitation of bird-calls like that within music is very idiomatic on (and expected of) the recorder.

[thelightisahead]

Interesting, I didn't know that... and thank you for your polite words, unlike the last person who got back to me on this :S

[starcommander55]

This might have been based on Chedeville's (a French composer who was a contemporary of Vivaldi's) "folk" transcription of Vivaldi's music. I'm not sure though.

[thelightisahead]

Very good point!

[dolofonos]

Close-minded? And what does one call such hostile responses to anything said one does not agree with? Surely, you are here being no more than a worshiper of this performance ready to attack anyone who criticizes it with the devotion of a zealot.

[AmilySillon]

v good! please come to birmingham!

[weedunn]

Superb!

Watched you on the Beeb last night and was blown away. I'm off to spend some of my hard earned dosh buying some of your albums now.

Come to Scotland soon!

WeeDunn

[bundleHastings]

PS Do you think you could play a bit faster Piers? LOL

[banrionaiasc]

one day, one day, i'll be able to play like that...i wish...

[bundleHastings]

Nice to see a long clip at last - some on here are so short they are just frustrating!