Dorian Recordings

DOR-90305

NIGHTMARE IN VENICE
Vivaldi, Corelli, Purcell, LeStrange and others

RED PRIEST
Piers Adams, Recorders ~ Julia Bishop, Violin
Angela East, Cello ~ Howard Beach, Harpsichord

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Suspend your worldly beliefs and earth-bound expectations; join us on a fantastic tour of the Baroque imagination, as Red Priest explores the 17th- and 18th-Century musical fascination with the fantastic, the weird and the supernatural. Starting in Venice, city of the Red Priest, Antonio Vivaldi, whose Nightmare concerto (La Notte) paints vivid and hair-raising programmatic effects; whisking along to the homeland of the 'English Orpheus', Henry Purcell, who carried the mythos of the Shakespearean tradition into his operatic works; with magical stops in France and Portugal, Nightmare in Venice is a white-knuckle ride.

The Nightmare Concerto ("La Notte") in G Minor, RV 439 • Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
1. Largo 1:56
2. Phantoms: Presto 0:43
3. Phantoms: Largo 1:07
4. Phantoms: Presto 0:46
5. The Sleep: Largo 1:41
6. The Chase: Allegro 2:36

English Fantasy Suite
7. The Satyrs' Masque • Robert Johnson (1583-1633) 2:29
8. The Flatt Masque • R. Johnson 1:58
9. The Furies • Nicholas LeStrange (1603-1655) 2:03
10. The Witches' Dance • R. Johnson 1:54

11. Sonata a Tre in A Minor • Giovanni Paolo Cima (17th c.) 3:16

Concerto Grosso in A Minor, RV 522 • A. Vivaldi
12. Allegro 3:04
13. Larghetto 3:58
14. Allegro 2:46

Suite from The Fairy Queen • Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
15. Prelude/Rondeau 4:28
16. Fairy Dance 0:46
17. Dance of the Savages 1:35
18. Dance of the Followers of Night 2:52
19. Chaconne 2:38

20. Sonata Decima • Dario Castello (17th c.) 5:26

Suite from Scylla et Glaucus • Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764)
21. Demon Air No. 1 2:03
22. Demon Air No. 2 1:08
23. Demon Air No. 3 1:45
24. Simphonie 0:34

25. Fantasy on Corelli's "La Folia" • Red Priest 12:32

Total Program Length: 65:54
All arrangements by Red Priest.

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