{{Short description|US musical ensemble}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians --> | name = The Baltimore Consort <!-- Commented out because image was deleted: | image = Baltimore Consort 2006 Cloisters Danielle Jose.jpg --> | caption = Baltimore Consort members (l-r) Mark Cudek, Mindy Rosenfeld, Danielle Svonavec, Ronn McFarlane, Jose Lemos, Larry Lipkis, Mary Anne Ballard. | image_size = <!-- Only for images narrower than 220 pixels --> | background = classical_ensemble | alias = | origin = | genre = Early, Renaissance, Classical and Folk | occupation = | years_active = 1980–present | label = Dorian/Sono Luminus | website = | current_members = José Lemos (countertenor), Danielle Svonavec (soprano), Ronn McFarlane (lute), Mary Anne Ballard (viols, fiddle), Larry Lipkis (bass viol, recorder, crumhorn), Mindy Rosenfeld (flutes, fifes, crumhorn), and Mark Cudek (cittern, recorder, crumhorn, viol) | past_members = }}
'''The Baltimore Consort''' is a musical ensemble that performs a wide variety of early music, Renaissance music and music from later periods. They began in 1980 as a group specializing in music of the Elizabethan period, but soon expanded their repertoire to include Scottish music, broadside ballads, and Italian, French, and other European music of the 16th and 17th centuries. Their music bridges the genres of classical and folk music.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Billboard|year=1996|page=81|volume=108|issue=13}}</ref>
==History== The Baltimore Consort was founded by Roger Harmon and Mindy Rosenfeld in 1980.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/baltimore-consort-q11458/biography|title=Baltimore Consort|website=AllMusic|accessdate=28 December 2011}}</ref> Harmon formerly had taught lute at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland. They performed together for ten years before releasing their first album for Dorian Recordings, a collection of Scottish music called ''On the Banks of Helicon''. By the time of that recording the ensemble consisted of Custer LaRue (soprano), Ronn McFarlane (lute), Mary Anne Ballard (viols, fiddle), Larry Lipkis (bass viol, recorder), Chris Norman (flutes, bagpipes, bodhran), Howard Bass (bandora), and Mark Cudek (cittern, bass viol). Norman was replaced in 2003 by Mindy Rosenfeld, founding member of the original 1980 group whom he had replaced in 1987, and LaRue began an indefinite leave of absence in 2004, at which time countertenor José Lemos began performing with the group, joined in 2005 by soprano Danielle Svonavec.
The group has recorded some 15 albums for Dorian, including a Christmas album, ''Bright Day Star'', and a collection of bawdy songs with the ''a capella'' quartet called the Merry Companions, ''The Art of the Bawdy Song'' and a 2007 instrumental compilation, ''Gut, Wind and Wire''. Their various recordings also cover a number of the Child ballads.
==Discography==
*''On The Banks of Helicon'' (1990) *''Watkins Ale'' (1990) *''La Rocque 'n' Roll'' (1993) *''The Art of the Bawdy Song'' (1993) *''Custer LaRue Sings 'The Daemon Lover' with The Baltimore Consort'' (1993) *''Bright Day Star'' (1994) *''A Trip to Killburn'' (1996) *''Tunes from the Attic'' (1997) *''The Ladyes Delight'' (1998) *''The Mad Buckgoat'' (1999) *''Shakespeare's Music'' (2001) *''Amazing Grace'' (2001) *''Adew Dundee'' (2003) *''The Best of the Baltimore Consort'' (2003) *''Gut, Wind and Wire; Instruments of the Baltimore Consort'' (2007) *''The Baltimore Consort Live in Concert'' (2008) *''Adio Espana: Romances, Villancicos, and Improvisations from Spain, circa 1550'' (2009)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.baltcons.com/recordings.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051223223651/http://www.baltcons.com/recordings.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=December 23, 2005|title=Recordings|accessdate=28 December 2011}}</ref> *''The Food of Love: Songs, Dances, and Fancies for Shakespeare'' (2019)
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *[https://baltimoreconsort.com/ The Baltimore Consort's website]
{{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Baltimore Consort, The}} Category:Early music consorts Category:Musical groups from Baltimore Category:Musical groups established in 1980 Category:1980 establishments in Maryland