Dorian Sono Luminus

DSL-90601

GUT WIND AND WIRE

BALTIMORE CONSORT
DSL-90601 Cover

THE MUSIC
Fascinated by the variety of timbres that instruments can produce, Renaissance musicians developed a wide variety of sound colors, ranging from the almost vocal sound of the bowed strings to the chirpy, bird-like sound of the high winds, the twang of the wire-strung cittern, and the buzz of the crumhorns. The sixteenth century musician's love of variety can be seen in the vast array of instruments imitated by organ stops of the period, by surviving instruments and pictures of instruments, and also by eyewitness accounts of the cornucopia of instruments used to provide music for the lavish banquets of royalty. When a group of instruments is played together, whether they be all of the same family or different, a “consort” is formed.

In true English Consort style, the Baltimore Consort, America's most popular early music ensemble, mixes instruments from different families, The Baltimore Consort was founded to perform instrumental music of Shakespeare's time. Although later joined by a singer, the group's experience of rehearsing purely instrumentally forged its identity as an ensemble dedicated to exploiting the diverse sound colors offered by gut and wire-strung plucked and bowed strings and transverse and end-blown flutes and recorders, capped reeds and percussion. Hence their newest release: Gut, Wind and Wire. Having expanded upon the musical arrangements of Shakespeare's contemporaries, The Baltimore Consort enjoys returning to its origins - the English music for broken consort. The result is music that is an inspiration and a joy, just as it was for listeners in 1600, as witnessed by a poem on the power of music by Richard Edwards.

This recording will give the Baltimore Consort listeners an overview of its instrumental repertory for the last 26 years.

THE PERFORMERS
The Baltimore Consort and Guest Artists
Mary Anne Ballard, viols, fiddle, rebec
Mark Cudek, cittern, recorder, crumhorn, viol
Edwin George, (guest artist) recorder track 1
Larry Lipkis, bass viol, recorder, crumhorn
Ronn McFarlane, lute
Chris Norman, flutes, bagpipe, bodhran 3, 4, 8-10, 12, 13, 15, 24, 29-32, 34-36
Mindy Rosenfeld, flutes and fifes 5, 16-21, 22, 26-28, 33
William Simms, (guest artist) bandora 24, 25, 29

PROGRAM LISTING
Prelude	1.	Scotch Cap	The English Dancing Master 1651	1:56
La Rocque 'n' Roll	2.	Galliard d'escosse	Pierre Phalèse Liber Primus Leviorum Carminum 1571	0:35
	3.	Laroque Galliard	Pierre Phalèse Liber Primus Leviorum Carminum	1:16
	4.	Alemande de Liège	Pierre Phalèse Liber Primus Leviorum Carminum	1:28
A Scottish Air	5.	Doun in yon bank	Skene Mandora MS c.1630-33	1:51
The Scottish Lute	6.	The Canaries	The Straloch Lute Book c.1627-29	0:52
	7.	Canaries	The Straloch Lute Book	1:40
An English Country Ball	8.	All in a Garden Green	The English Dancing Master 1651	1:56
	9.	Parsons Farewell	The English Dancing Master	1:51
	10.	Beggar Boy	The English Dancing Master	1:53
	11.	John Come Kiss Me Now	The English Dancing Master	1:31
	12.	Newcastle	The English Dancing Master	1:51
La Rocque 'n' Roll	13.	Branle double	Michael Praetorius Terpsichore 1612	0:50
	14.	Branle de Montirande	Michael Praetorius Terpsichore	0:54
	15.	Branle de la torche	Michael Praetorius Terpsichore	1:28
Celtic Flute	16.	Johnny Faa	Scottish traditional	1:01
	17.	Chanter's Song	Scottish traditional	0:58
	18.	O'Keefe's Slide	Irish traditional	1:21
	19.	Sixpenny Money	Irish traditional	0:34
	20.	Ten Penny Bit	Irish traditional	0:35
	21.	Clare Jig	Irish traditional	1:17
Ronn's Tunes	22.	Sycamore	Ronn McFarlane b.1953	4:26
	23.	Indigo Road	Ronn McFarlane	3:14
The Ladye's Delight	24.	My Lord of Oxenford's Maske	Consort Lessons 1599	1:44
	25.	The Queen's Treble	Jane Pickering Lute Book 1616	1:54
Renaissance Italy	26.	Bianco Fiore	Cesare Negri Le gratie d'amore 1602	0:55
	27.	Catena d'amore	Cesare Negri Le gratie d'amore	1:28
	28.	So ben mi ch'ha bon tempo	Orazio Vecchi Selva di varia ricreatione 1590	1:38
Musick's Silver Sound	29.	Joyne Hands	Thomas Morley Consort Lessons 1599	1:26
	30.	Paven	Thomas Wode's Partbooks 1562-c.1592	1:39
	31.	Galliard	The Dublin Virginal MS c.1570	1:20
	32.	Green Garters	John Johnson c.1540-1595	2:37
Celtic Flute	33.	Pentland Hills	James Oswald Caledonian Pocket Companion 1747	2:09
Scotland's Native Airs	34.	Whip my Toudie	Straloch Lute Book c.1627-29	1:45
	35.	Remember me at Evening	Skene Mandora MS c.1630-33	1:55
	36.	A Scot's Tune	Skene Mandora MS c.1630-33	2:08

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