Rating: 5/5
Review:
Terrific stuff from Red Priest
I love Red Priest. I
don't enjoy everything they do, but I think their approach is wonderfully
refreshing, their musical skill is quite astounding in places, they often
produce genuinely thrilling music – and they quite often raise a smile, too.
This is a terrific album of Bach arrangements, played with
Red Priest's trademark zest and virtuosity.
It opens with the famous prelude from the E major Violin Partita,
superbly arranged and played with terrific zing, continues with a truly lovely
Andante from the E minor Flute Sonata, then a wonderful, varied arrangement of
the mighty organ Toccata & Fugue in D minor…and so on. It's a really great programme, crammed with
wit, beauty, virtuosic fireworks and, running through it all, a genuine love
and understanding of Bach's music.
I love and revere Bach and I would be very critical if I
thought he were being trivialised. I
think this is anything but trivialising Bach, though; it's a lot of fun but
there's also real musical depth and merit here and I can recommend this disc
extremely warmly.
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