Bright Day Star / Baltimore Consort

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Label: Sono Luminus
Release Date: August 21, 1990

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Featuring ⌄

COMPOSER

HERMANN SANDYS BULL
PERFORMER

Baltimore Consort

Product Details ⌄

RELEASE DATE

August 21, 1990
UPC

053479019820
CATALOG NUMBER

DOR-90198
LABEL

Sono Luminus
NUMBER OF DISCS

1
GENRE

Vocal

Works ⌄

Tomorrow shall be my dancing day

Composer: William Sandys

Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Performer: Mary Anne Ballard (Viola da Gamba), Mark Cudek (Cittern), Custer LaRue (Soprano), Larry Lipkis (Viola da Gamba), Ronn McFarlane (Lute), Chris Norman (Flute)
Cherry Tree Carol

Composer: Traditional

Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Performer: Mary Anne Ballard (Viola da Gamba), Mark Cudek (Viola da Gamba), Custer LaRue (Soprano), Larry Lipkis (Viola da Gamba), Ronn McFarlane (Lute)
The Wren Song

Composer: Traditional

Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Performer: Mary Anne Ballard (Rebec), Mark Cudek (Cittern), Custer LaRue (Soprano), Larry Lipkis (Recorder), Ronn McFarlane (Lute), Chris Norman (Pennywhistle)
Ding Dong! Merrily on high

Composer: Traditional

Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Performer: Mary Anne Ballard (Viola da Gamba), Mark Cudek (Cittern), Custer LaRue (Soprano), Larry Lipkis (Viola da Gamba), Ronn McFarlane (Lute), Chris Norman (Flute)
The Old Year now away is fled

Composer: Traditional

Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Performer: Mary Anne Ballard (Viola da Gamba), Mark Cudek (Cittern), Custer LaRue (Soprano), Larry Lipkis (Viola da Gamba), Ronn McFarlane (Lute), Chris Norman (Flute)
Christmas Day in da Mornin'

Composer: Traditional

Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Performer: Mary Anne Ballard (Viola da Gamba), Mark Cudek (Cittern), Larry Lipkis (Viola da Gamba), Ronn McFarlane (Lute), Chris Norman (Flute)
Wir singen dir, Immanuel

Composer: Traditional

Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Performer: Mary Anne Ballard (Viola da Gamba), Mark Cudek (Cittern), Larry Lipkis (Viola da Gamba), Ronn McFarlane (Lute), Chris Norman (Flute)
Wassail Song

Composer: Traditional

Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Performer: Mary Anne Ballard (Viola da Gamba), Mark Cudek (Cittern), Larry Lipkis (Viola da Gamba), Ronn McFarlane (Lute), Chris Norman (Flute)
Een Kindeken is ons geboren

Composer: John Bull

Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Performer: Webb Wiggins (Organ)
The bellman's Carol

Composer: Traditional

Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Performer: Mary Anne Ballard (Viola da Gamba), Mark Cudek (Viola da Gamba), Custer LaRue (Soprano), Larry Lipkis (Viola da Gamba), Ronn McFarlane (Lute), Webb Wiggins (Organ)
A Christmas Jig

Composer: Traditional

Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Performer: Mary Anne Ballard (Rebec), Mark Cudek (Bandora), Larry Lipkis (Bass Viola da gamba), Ronn McFarlane (Lute), Chris Norman (Flute)
In dulci jubilo

Composer: Johann Michael Bach

Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Performer: Webb Wiggins (Organ)
Rorate coeli desuper

Composer: Traditional

Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Performer: Mary Anne Ballard (Viola da Gamba), Mark Cudek (Viola da Gamba), Custer LaRue (Soprano), Larry Lipkis (Viola da Gamba), Ronn McFarlane (Lute), Chris Norman (Flute)
Drive the cold winter away

Composer: Traditional

Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Performer: Mary Anne Ballard (Treble Vla da gamba), Mark Cudek (Bandora), Larry Lipkis (Bass Viola da gamba), Ronn McFarlane (Lute), Chris Norman (Alto Flute)
Remember, O thou man

Composer: Thomas Ravenscroft

Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Performer: Mary Anne Ballard (Treble Vla da gamba), Mark Cudek (Bandora), Custer LaRue (Soprano), Larry Lipkis (Bass Viola da gamba), Ronn McFarlane (Lute)
Quem pastores laudavere

Composer: Traditional

Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Performer: Larry Lipkis (Gemshorn)
Christmas is my name

Composer: Traditional

Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Performer: Custer LaRue (Soprano), Larry Lipkis (Bass Viola da gamba), Webb Wiggins (Chamber Organ)
In dir ist Freude

Composer: Traditional

Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Performer: Mary Anne Ballard (Bass Viola da gamba), Mark Cudek (Guitar), Larry Lipkis (Gemshorn), Ronn McFarlane (Soprano Lute), Chris Norman (Fife)
The Shropshire wakes, or, Hey for Christmas

Composer: Traditional

Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Performer: Mary Anne Ballard (Rebec), Mark Cudek (Cittern), Custer LaRue (Soprano), Larry Lipkis (Bass Viola da gamba), Ronn McFarlane (Lute), Chris Norman (Fife)
Musae Sioniae: Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen

Composer: Michael Praetorius

Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

Performer: Chris Norman (Flute)

One of the finest Christmas recordings ever made, this 1994 production by the Baltimore Consort makes a welcome return (complete with a new cover) along with the revival of the Dorian label. Glowing with the high, clear soprano of Custer LaRue and brimming with versatile, virtuoso instrumental work by Mary Anne Ballard (viols, rebec), Mark Cudek (cittern, Baroque guitar, viols, bandora), Larry Lipkis (viol, recorder, gemshorn), Ronn McFarlane (lute), Chris Norman (wooden flutes, pennywhistle), and Webb Wiggins (organ), this program literally lives up to the promise of its title.

Many of these 20 tunes/carols/dances are among the most familiar Christmas standards--Ding dong merrily on high; Greensleeves; Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen; In dulci jubilo; The Cherry Tree Carol; Tomorrow shall be my dancing day--presented in both vocal/instrumental and strictly instrumental arrangements. But whatever the tune, and however it's presented, the result is invariably engaging, artful, classy, and infinitely repeatable, which means it's perfect for multiple repetitions, whether at Christmas or any other time of year. Chris Norman's flute improvisation on "Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen" is a classic, and Custer LaRue's rendition of the beautiful "Rorate coeli desuper" is not to be missed. In fact, that last instruction applies to this entire disc. If you're a Christmas music fan (and who isn't?) and you don't already own this CD, you know what you have to do.

-- David Vernier, ClassicsToday.com