Years active 1980–present Active from 1980 | Labels Dorian/Sono Luminus | |
Albums The Art Of The Bawdy Song Members Profiles | ||
The baltimore consort concert madison early music festival 2016
The Baltimore Consort is a musical ensemble that performs a wide variety of early music, Renaissance music and music from later periods. They began in 1980 as a group specializing in music of the Elizabethan period, but soon expanded their repertoire to include Scottish music, broadside ballads, and Italian, French, and other European music of the 16th and 17th centuries. Their music bridges the genres of classical and folk music.
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- The baltimore consort concert madison early music festival 2016
- Meet the baltimore consort
- History
- Discography
- Songs
- References
Meet the baltimore consort
History
The Baltimore Consort was founded by Roger Harmon and Mindy Rosenfeld in 1980. Harmon formerly had taught lute at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland. They performed together for ten years before releasing their first album for Dorian Recordings, a collection of Scottish music called On the Banks of Helicon. By the time of that recording the ensemble consisted of Custer LaRue (soprano), Ronn McFarlane (lute), Mary Anne Ballard (viols, fiddle), Larry Lipkis (bass viol, recorder), Chris Norman (flutes, bagpipes, bodhran), Howard Bass (bandora), and Mark Cudek (cittern, bass viol). Norman was replaced in 2003 by Mindy Rosenfeld, founding member of the original 1980 group whom he had replaced in 1987, and LaRue began an indefinite leave of absence in 2004, at which time countertenor José Lemos began performing with the group, joined in 2005 by soprano Danielle Svonavec.
The group has recorded some 15 albums for Dorian, including a Christmas album, Bright Day Star, and a collection of bawdy songs with the a capella quartet called the Merry Companions, The Art of the Bawdy Song and a 2007 instrumental compilation, Gut, Wind and Wire. Their various recordings also cover a number of the Child ballads.
Discography
Songs
Watkin's AleChamber Music (Renaissance) – D'estree - J / Johnson - J / Ravenscroft - T / Allison - R / Morley - T / Byrd - W / Dowland - J · 1991
In A Garden So GreenOn The Banks of Helicon · 1990
Ladyes DelightChamber And Vocal Music (16th-17th Centuries) – Reade - R / Johnson - J Ravenscroft - T / Morley - T (The Ladyes Delight) · 1998