Baltimore Consort > Companions, Merry

The Best of the Baltimore Consort

1 CD / Sono Luminus / 2003-01-24

Works: Thomas Morley: Joyne Hands, for consort of instruments (from "The First Booke of Consort Lessons"); Anonymous: Howell's Delight, for consort; The Old Maid of the Mill Dust; Scottish Traditional: In a...
Performers: Bass, Howard; Companions, Merry; George, Edwin; Simms, William; Wiggins, Webb
Conductors:
Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Stylistic innovators, amazing music makers, historically informed, fun loving, occasionally bawdy, and always surprising, The Baltimore Consort continues to explore the relationship between 'folk' and...continue...

The Art of the Bawdy Song / Baltimore Consort, et al

1 CD / Sono Luminus / 1988-11-09

Works: Anonymous: Aniseed Robin; Irish jig or The night ramble; Most men do love the Spanish wine; Argeers; When first Amyntas sued for a kiss; English Traditional: Cuckolds all a-row, folk song; Walking in...
Performers: Ballard, Mary Anne [Viola da gamba]; Becker, Peter; Blachly, Alexander; Companions, Merry; Consort, Baltimore; Cudek, Mark [Cittern]; Labbrobaccio, Lorenzo; LaRue, Custer; Lipkis, Larry; McFarland, R...
Conductors:
Ensemble: Baltimore Consort; Merry Companions

Through these bawdy catches and ballads, the Baltimore Consort journeys to the taverns and other social gathering-places of the real Merry Old England. Listeners may...continue...
Personnel: Custer LaRue (soprano); James F. Weaver , Peter Becker, Alexander Blachly (baritone); Mark Cudek (guitar, cittern, recorder); Ronn McFarlane (lute); Mary Anne Ballard (viol, fiddle); Lar...continue...