Highly anticipated live recording from The Baltimore Consort

PR Log (Press Release) – Jun 27, 2008 – Dorian Sono Luminus announces the upcoming live release from early music favorites, The Baltimore Consort

Take a journey back in time with a visit to the First Scots Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, during the Piccolo Spoleto Festival for the location of this live recording. Surrounded by the ghosts of Scottish Presbyterians (whose congregation dates to 1731), the musicians and their audience felt a spiritual connection to the past. They also enjoyed the very lively sequence of tunes that fans of the BC know so well.

The current First Scots building constructed in 1814, offered a perfect acoustic for the lutes, viols, wooden flutes, and other, exotic instruments of early music, as well as a spacious and elegant historical ambiance in which to listen.

The Baltimore Consort are regular performers at Piccolo Spoleto, since it was founded by Steve Rosenberg in 1986, and this live album highlights the 2007 series. Coming together in Charleston allowed the group to play, within a single week, four or five different programs drawn from its repertory of old tunes, polished like tumbled rock through the years, as well as to explore new (old) music for future touring.  

Recording with them for the first time is a gifted young soprano, Danielle Svonavec, and re-appearing after a 17-year hiatus is Mindy Rosenfeld, whose flute playing graced their first seven seasons.

Fans will recognize their old favorites from the Baltimore Consorts famed and familiar repertoire.

This album is one of the first Digipak releases from Dorian Sono Luminus. It is printed on recycled paper in an effort to reduce our manufacturing impact on the environment. Full liner notes, text translations, etc. will be available online at www.dorian.com in a print-ready PDF format.