Baltimore Consort - Gut Wind and Wire (2011)

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Artist: Baltimore Consort
Title: Gut Wind and Wire
Year Of Release: 2011
Label: Dorian
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 58:13
Total Size: 284 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

1. Baltimore Consort – The English Dancing Master: Scotch Cap (01:56)
2. Baltimore Consort – Liber Primus Leviorum Carminum: Galliard d'escosse (00:35)
3. Baltimore Consort – Liber Primus Leviorum Carminum: Laroque Galliard (01:16)
4. Baltimore Consort – Liber Primus Leviorum Carminum: Alemande de Liege (01:28)
5. Baltimore Consort – Skene Mandora: Doun in yon bank (01:51)
6. Baltimore Consort – Straloch Lute Book: The Canaries (00:52)
7. Baltimore Consort – Straloch Lute Book: Canaries (01:40)
8. Baltimore Consort – The English Dancing Master: All in a Garden Green (01:56)
9. Baltimore Consort – The English Dancing Master: Parsons Farewell (01:51)
10. Baltimore Consort – The English Dancing Master: Beggar Boy (01:53)
11. Baltimore Consort – The English Dancing Master: John Come Kiss Me Now (01:31)
12. Baltimore Consort – The English Dancing Master: Newcastle (01:51)
13. Baltimore Consort – Terpsichore (arr. for chamber ensemble): Branle double (00:50)
14. Baltimore Consort – Terpsichore (arr. for chamber ensemble): Branle de Montirande (00:54)
15. Baltimore Consort – Terpsichore (arr. for chamber ensemble): Branle de la torche (01:28)
16. Baltimore Consort – Johnny Faa (01:01)
17. Baltimore Consort – Chanter's Song (00:58)
18. Baltimore Consort – O'Keefe's Slide (01:21)
19. Baltimore Consort – Sixpenny Money (00:34)
20. Baltimore Consort – Ten Penny Bit (00:35)
21. Baltimore Consort – Clare Jig (01:17)
22. Baltimore Consort – Sycamore (04:26)
23. Baltimore Consort – Indigo Road (03:14)
24. Baltimore Consort – Consort Lessons, Book 1: My Lord of Oxenford's Maske (01:44)
25. Baltimore Consort – Jane Pickering Lute Book, 1616: The Queen's Table (01:54)
26. Baltimore Consort – Le Gratie d'Amore: Bianfo Fiore (00:55)
27. Baltimore Consort – Le Gratie d'Amore: Catena d'amore (01:28)
28. Baltimore Consort – So Ben Mi Chi Ha Bon Tempo (01:38)
29. Baltimore Consort – Consort Lessons, Book 1: Joyne hands (01:26)
30. Baltimore Consort – Thomas Wode's Partbooks: Paven (01:39)
31. Baltimore Consort – Dublin Virginal: Galliard (01:20)
32. Baltimore Consort – Green Garters (02:37)
33. Baltimore Consort – Caledonian Pocket Companion: Pentland Hills (02:09)
34. Baltimore Consort – Straloch Lute Book: Whip my Toudie (01:45)
35. Baltimore Consort – Skene Mandora: Remember me at Evening (01:55)
36. Baltimore Consort – Skene Mandora: A Scot's Tune (02:08)

In case you couldn't tell from the title of this album, the Baltimore Consort is strongly in the "early music can be fun" camp. (An earlier album is called La Rocque 'n' Roll.) The fact that the group's performance practice is based on impeccable scholarship and the performers are masterful singers and instrumentalists makes them an ensemble that should appeal to purists as well as newcomers to early music. This collection of instrumental music is primarily compiled from eight of their previous CDs, with a few new tracks added, and is described as an overview of its repertoire from its founding in the early '80s to 2007. This is a particularly nice introduction to music of this era (loosely circumscribed as the time of Shakespeare) and the instruments on which it's played because the program notes include fascinating, brief, non-technical essays on the various instruments. In keeping with the spirit of the album's title, the Baltimore plays these dances, airs, and song arrangements, some of them folk tunes and some notated pieces, with infectious glee and high spirits. The rambunctious playfulness never slides into sloppiness or anything less than demonstrations of the finest musicianship. Dorian's sound is clean, warm, and intimate.

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