Bright Day Star / Baltimore Consort

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Label
Sono Luminus
Release Date
August 21, 1990
Format
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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 ⌄

    1. Ding Dong Merrily

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

    2. The old year now away is fled

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

      Performer: Custer LaRue

    3. Christmas Day in da Mornin' (Shetland Islands)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

    4. The Cherry Tree Carol

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

      Performer: Custer LaRue

    5. Wir singen dir, Immanuel

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

    6. The Wren Song (Ireland)

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

      Performer: Custer LaRue

    7. A Wassail Tune

      Composer: John Playford

      Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

    8. Tomorrow shall be my dancing day

      Composer: William Sandys

      Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

      Performer: Custer LaRue

    9. Een kindeken is ons geboren

      Composer: John Bull

      Performer: Webb Wiggins

    10. The Bellman's Carol

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

      Performer: Custer LaRue

    11. A Christmas Jig

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

    12. Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen

      Composer: Michael Praetorius

      Performer: Chris Norman

    13. In dulci jubilo

      Composer: Johann Michael Bach

      Performer: Webb Wiggins

    14. Rorate coeli desuper

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

      Performer: Custer LaRue

    15. Drive the Cold Winter Away

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

    16. Remember, O Thou Man

      Composer: Thomas Ravenscroft

      Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

      Performer: Custer LaRue

    17. Quem pastores laudavere

      Composer: Michael Praetorius

      Performer: Larry Lipkis

    18. Christmas Is My Name

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

      Performer: Custer LaRue

    19. In dir ist Freude

      Composer: Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi

      Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

    20. Hey for Christmas!

      Composer: John Playford

      Ensemble: Baltimore Consort

      Performer: Custer LaRue


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