Hay Music is very excited to present 'Baroque Alchemy' with recorders virtuoso Piers Adams, and multi-talented keyboardist Lyndy Mayle. Piers is widely regarded as one of the greatest recorder players of our time and his ensemble 'Red Priest' is well known for its fresh and innovative approach to the music of the Mediaeval and Baroque masters. Piers and Lyndy offer an experience no less colourful and engaging and we hope you will welcome this rare opportunity to hear these outstanding performers in a unique 'electro-baroque fusion'. In a recent review of one of their performances Sussex World wrote: "
‘Alchemy’ originally referred to transmuting base metals into gold. No-one could possibly describe Baroque music as ‘base’, but what has been discovered over many years is how adaptable much of this music is to new and effective treatments and instrumentation. But few transmutations have been as genuinely electrifying as this one, a combination of the simple recorder allied to modern-day synth technology, performed by two spectacularly gifted musicians: Piers on a dizzying array of recorders – seemingly snatched at random from their canvas holders – and keyboard player and harpsichordist supremo Lyndy Mayle. What a perfectly matched duo for this innovative and extremely entertaining venture!"
The programme will include:Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite from the Goldberg Variations
Tomaso Albinoni: Adagio from Concerto in D minor
Georg Philipp Telemann: Andante and Danse Rustique
Jean-Baptiste Forqueray: La BoissonGiovani Antonio Pandolfi Mealli: La Biancuccia
Ian Clarke: Hypnosis
Isaac Albeniz: Asturias
Astor Piazzolla: Café 1930
Tickets £17.50 (under 25s - £8.00) directly from Hay Music
