Interview with PIERS ADAMS! | Team Recorder Pro-Files
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- In the latest instalment of the Team Recorder Pro-Files, I interview the one and only Piers Adams! This recorder virtuoso and merrily irreverent interpreter of Baroque music has long been a mainstay of the British recorder scene, along with his ensemble Red Priest. I chatted to him about his long career, approaching early music with creativity, and how (not to) ruin a recorder..!
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Piers Adams piersadams.com
Red Priest redpriest.com
Piers' new CD 'Bach Side of the Moon' piersadams.com...
London International Festival of Early Music earlymusicshop...
Il Giardino Armonico www.ilgiardinoarmonico.com
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In this video I play on a 442 kingwood alto by Yoav Ran.
Piers plays on a whole bunch of Eagle recorders by Adriana Breukink.
We perform Piers' own arrangement of the canon 'London's Burning' 😜
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What really comes through during your duet, particularly at the beginning, is how much you both love playing. A performer who can project that joy always wins me over.
I watched a Red Priest's concert many years ago, when they visited Greece, and I feel soooo lucky for that opportunity!!! Blowminding experience!!!
Oh, I love this!
Another interview, another full hit! And another recorder player that seems to be an incredibly nice person (like Lucie, Michala and Erik).
And even if it is short, you still managed to touch quite a relevant point about music practice, tradition, philology and fun while playing.
Well done!
Ahh thank you! 😊😊 and yes- pretty mich every recorder player I’ve ever met has been an absolutely lovely person!!
idraote - he is nice - I was lucky enough to meet him a few months ago at the University of Chichester, when he played both the world premier of Crispin Ward's recorder concerto ( a senior lecturer at the Uni) and the Sammartini concerto (my favourite - he played it on an old handmade Dawson recorder in Ebony). I spoke with him briefly afterwards and got his autograph - one of the best nights of music ever - a real privilege.
Yay! My 2 favourite recorder players together! 😀😀😀
Was waiting for this day to come and it did not disappoint - i love how you engage your guests as fellow musicians and really share this amazingly communicative love for the Recorder ... The Duet was great ... my jaw dropped
what a great interview and what an interesting person. I didn't know about him yet. Thanks for the introduction. I will be listening to some of his material on youtube. Inspiring!. that canon at the end ...just wow.
was in the festival (but too shy to say hello to Sarah), and also bought a ticket for Red Priest's concert, really an unforgettable evening☺️
Ahh, next time do come and say hi! 😄
This is a great interview. Makes me wish there was a more of a recorder scene around here. Not just for the classic pieces, but with more modern compositions. And that first Eagle Ganassi alto...it's the same one that I splurged on! I love that deep, rich sound of it.
mynvision - is it hard to play? Piers said that the normal Eagles are hard regarding breath control (I spoke briefly with him after a concert recently) so I was wondering about the Ganassi.
@@honeychurchgipsy6 It's a larger bore than normal alto recorders, and I have to use more air (which sometimes can be tough since I have asthma). My other altos are a Yamaha rosewood and a Kung olive wood, and I bought my partner a Mollenhauer Dream (the nicer one in plumwood), which I play around with once in a while. But I've not tried one of the regular Eagle recorders. I also have had to adjust my alternate fingerings for E and Eb for the Ganassi because they tended to play sharp unless I cover one or two more additional holes.
That was great! There was a time when Red Priest's 'Four Seasons', was my daily walk - to - work music. I travelled from Edinburgh to hear them play in A cathedral in Carlisle around 13 years ago. I popped into the cathedral the night before, just to check the place out, and the guys were practicing and sound checking. I got about an hour's free entertainment. Great stuff! Piers is amazing.
Enrico Onofri conducted our choir. He's also my hero. As a conductor he's so warm and full of BIG emotions, quite different from his internalised playing style. With his violin, his big personality comes through the instrument.
He looks like Richard Hammond :P
I think Piers Adams looks more like the British rock singer and songwriter: Rod Stewart when he was 55. Or should I say, Sir Roderick David Stewart. 😉 ♫
Definitely Hammond ! I’d no idea he could play the recorder✔️👍
Wow, such relaxed man and a great duet. Never knew you could play London burning like this. Stunning!
HaHa that London's burning was soooo much fun. Piers seems great.
Thank you both so much for the performance!!!
I was wide-eyed and holding my breath towards the end of your performance. So exciting.
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That was fun! Please more of these interviews, Sarah
👏👍 9:01 You both make it look so easy - but it's not, and especially as a duet. The synchronization and timing was impeccable!! 😊 ♫
Glad to know that Piers studied Physics in University. I studied chemistry in university and I’m a big fan of recorder.
Wow I didn’t know that
Phyllis! Awesome!
🙋 Physics graduate here, too. Geophysicist by day, recorder player by night... since digging up the recorder again a few months ago, after 20+ years. My teacher and I discussed what to explore next today and she assigned (ok, suggested) Telemann's Methodical Sonata 3. Yikes. A lot of notes, closely spaced. That's for asking for something "not in F major, maybe in a minor key". I have no idea why she thinks I can play that.
Compliments again, and wonderful performance!
Big fan
Thank you! I like these pro-files. He spoke about the details between the notes, about making the recorder sing. That's what I have always loved when listening a good player. At the moment I love how Lucie Horsch does it, she makes the recorder really sing. That's also what I am trying to do but I have a lot to do before making it work.
The snatch of melody played by Piers is the opening of 'Niel Gow's Lament for his Second Wife'. There is a beautiful arrangement of it by the Flautadors on CZcams.
Jane Mallinson - thanks for that - I'll check it out
I love that tune - and that arrangement of it. There's also a fantastic classical guitar arrangement, by a Scottish guitarist whose name I can't unfortunately remember.
Omg!omg!omg!my hero!
Tracked down a couple CDs after this interview. The juxtaposition of the slow pace in Bach Side of the Moon and the often frantic tempos on The Baroque Bohemians is amusing.
Good music, fun interview. Really enjoy being exposed to different music here.
Peace
Great interview once again Sarah - are there any horrible recorder players out there I wonder - so far everyone you've interviewed seems to be unassuming and lovely.
I had the enormous good fortune to meet Piers very briefly, and get his autograph, after a concert at the University of Chichester earlier this year. He played the world premier of Crispin Ward's recorder concerto which was brilliant, and then he played (totally unscheduled and as a bonus!!) my favourite recorder concerto - the Sammartini for soprano. He is clearly a man with a generous nature who loves playing the recorder and entertaining an audience - I look forward to seeing Red Priest play in the future.
Piers is misleading by saying "Secondary School", he actually went to a prestige Public School. (Reading Blue Coat School)
I also have Shine and Shade, which I love. It introduced me to a lot of 'modern' repertoire, some of which I've tried to learn over the years.
Great duet! That would also be great as a clarinet duet, which I play, although I am getting started on recorder because I am tired of dealing with reeds.
Nice Video👍👍👍👍
Brilliant!
Great interview!
My new Bernolin recorder arrived today and it is so beautiful.
@Christiaan Baron yes. The workmanship is exquisite. The sound will take time to warm up.
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If that's 'London's Burning' don't let's ever put it out!
S**t that duet was complex. Did you prepare before hand or just there and bam done?! Were you nervous? More like profiles in courage!
For the London's Burning duet, I think Piers is playing on a Mollenhauer modern alto with double keys (F foot). That is exactly the recorder I plan to buy.
It is! I just got one too (with E foot 😎) and I loooove it
@@Team_Recorder I tried one with E foot and found it inconvenient to press the middle key for low B-flat and F, but of course you will have no problem with your great skill.
hola...ese dúo sonó excelente, felicidades por tu bloc. pasas videos muy interesantes, lastima que no están traducidos al castellano...saludos desde Cd madero tamaulipas mexico
Thank you Sarah for those great interviews! What do you think about interviewing the recorder pioneer Hans Martin Linde? And for sure the one and only one Dan Laurin?
Thank you :)
Oh yes good ideas! I interviewed Dan Laurin ages ago for Primephonic magazine (online) but Team Recorder would be awesome too..
If you're taking requests 🙂 ... Walter van Hauwe would be great!
Sarah Jeffery / Team Recorder or Adrianna Breukirk
Nice to listen to a David Munrow fan. I'm a big fan of his..would someone be so kind as to upload The Early Music Consort of London's HMV Recording of 'Guillaume de Machaut and His Age' sorry Mr. Adams but I've been chasing this album since 1979 when I first heard it. Brilliant playing by the way!!
Why do I know the name Piers Adams but can't remember where I've heard of him before. I feel like I know he's a big shot, but can't remember the "recorder" thing associated with him. WThecc, I'm so confused.
Hello Piers Adam
The Rod Stewart of the recorder world? =D
I never knew Piers Adams was a Physics graduate!
I believe it was actually astrophysics.
Hey! I have an idea for a video that i think could help us! Almost all of us have a cheap recorder. I have bought an eastar baroque recorder in amazon. Just 20$. It would be great if you review this recorder plisssss
your hair gooooooooooorgeous
Hi from spain! Does Somebody knows a Spanish recorder channel?? Im not talking about these channels of songs tutorials, I’m looking for something like this channel! 😁
I think I’ve met him before
Chère Sarah vous êtes adorable mais je ne comprend pas l'anglais.Merci quand même.
Hello Sarah
Gave my name for giveaway
I speak spanish, my level of English la so good but i don't understand the men :'v
Why?
poor JULIAN RHODES. Airbrushed out of Red Priest history. Not even mentioned with Shine and Shade. RIP.
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As they say in the Netherlands, “Vertel me dat het niet zo is.” Even though Adams is a world renowned recorder virtuoso, and as veritable and venerable as the recorder is, I find it very hard to believe that a man of Adams talent and musical perspicacity only plays one instrument - the recorder. 😖
ONE instrument??? He sometimes plays them 2 at a time, or several sizes in quick succession. All done brilliantly. Love his Handel in the Wind cencert.
@@gillchatfield3231 E pluribus unum (one out of many) In other words, it's still only one instrument, regardless of the many types and sizes. Nevertheless I would guess that Piers, to his credit as a highly accomplished musician, also plays other wind instruments such as the Native American flute and tin whistle. It’s just that I find it strange that no other instruments are listed in his bios. 😖