The dominant American early music group of the 1990s, the Baltimore Consort seems to have spent much of the first decade of the twenty first century on sabbatical. While the essential core of the Baltimore Consort -- Mary Anne Ballard, Mark Cudek, Larry Lipkis, Ronn McFarlane, and Mindy Rosenfeld -- remains as part of the group, two of its star performers have departed. Chris Norman, he of the wooden flute, left to begin his own ensemble, and in 2004 vocalist Custer LaRue -- the most famous member of the group -- decided to ...
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The dominant American early music group of the 1990s, the Baltimore Consort seems to have spent much of the first decade of the twenty first century on sabbatical. While the essential core of the Baltimore Consort -- Mary Anne Ballard, Mark Cudek, Larry Lipkis, Ronn McFarlane, and Mindy Rosenfeld -- remains as part of the group, two of its star performers have departed. Chris Norman, he of the wooden flute, left to begin his own ensemble, and in 2004 vocalist Custer LaRue -- the most famous member of the group -- decided to depart. Along with the collapse of the record label Dorian Records, this left the future of the Baltimore Consort in considerable doubt. Cut ahead a few years, and the label has bounced back as Dorian Sono Luminus; the Baltimore Consort, though still Custer-less and Chris-less, would soon follow, resuming a regular performance schedule in September 2008 and bringing along the comeback release Adio España: Romances, Villancicos & Improvisations from Spain circa 1500.This disc was...
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