When contemporaries nicknamed Antonio Vivaldi the Red Priest in the early 18th century, they had no idea the moniker would come in so handy 400 years later. This go-for-Baroque bunch has clearly earned the right to use the name, thanks to wildly original yet historically informed performances of Vivaldi and his peers, in concerts and recordings that have enthralled audiences and captivated critics all over the world.
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Red Priest is the only early music group in the world to have been compared in the press to the Rolling Stones, Jackson Pollock, the Marx Brothers, Spike Jones and the Cirque du Soleil. This extraordinary acoustic foursome has been described by music critics as ‘visionary and heretical’, ‘outrageous yet compulsive’, ‘wholly irreverent and highly enlightened’
