Baltimore Consort - Bright Day Star (1994)

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Artist: Baltimore Consort
Title: Bright Day Star
Year Of Release: 1994
Label: Dorian
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 1:07:24
Total Size: 321 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

1. Baltimore Consort – Ding Dong Merrily (01:53)
2. Baltimore Consort & Custer Larue – The Old Year Now Away Is Fled (03:38)
3. Baltimore Consort – Christmas Day in da Mornin' (Shetland Islands) (02:35)
4. Baltimore Consort & Custer Larue – The Cherry Tree Carol (04:50)
5. Baltimore Consort – Wir singen dir, Immanuel (02:30)
6. Custer Larue & Baltimore Consort – The Wren Song (Ireland) (01:32)
7. Baltimore Consort – A Wassail Tune (02:19)
8. Custer Larue & Baltimore Consort – Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (02:24)
9. Webb Wiggins – Een Kindeken Is Ons Geboren (03:23)
10. Custer Larue & Baltimore Consort – The Bellman's Carol (03:22)
11. Baltimore Consort – A Christmas Jig (04:17)
12. Chris Norman – Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen (03:01)
13. Webb Wiggins – In Dulci Jubilo (01:36)
14. Custer Larue & Baltimore Consort – Rorate Coeli Desuper (05:48)
15. Baltimore Consort – Drive the Cold Winter Away (03:30)
16. Baltimore Consort & Custer Larue – Remember, O Thou Man (04:05)
17. Larry Lipkis – Quem Pastores Laudavere (01:56)
18. Baltimore Consort & Custer Larue – Christmas Is My Name (06:39)
19. Baltimore Consort – In dir ist Freude (01:58)
20. Baltimore Consort & Custer Larue – Hey for Christmas! (05:58)

It's important to know the difference between twentieth century Christmas pop and European Christmas folk carols. While favorites like "Santa Claus Is Coming to Down," "Jingle Bells," and Mel Tormé's "The Christmas Song" are examples of American Christmas pop, Bright Star Day: Music for the Yuletide Season focuses largely on traditional European Christmas carols. Most of the songs the Baltimore Consort embraces on this CD date back to sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth nineteenth century Europe, although a few are American folk pieces that originated in Appalachia in the twentieth century. The European Yuletide carols or dance songs that the Consort (which has an engaging female soprano vocalist in Custer LaRue) chose for Bright Star Day range from Irish ("The Wren Song") and British ("Drive the Cold Winter Away," "Hey, For Christmas") to German ("Wir Singen Dir, Immanuel"). All of these songs are a product of Christian traditions, and yet, one needn't embrace the Christian faith to appreciate them. Just as one can enjoy Indian ragas without being a Hindu, listeners can appreciate this CD's richness whether or not they actually celebrate Christmas.

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