La Rocque 'n' Roll - Popular Music of Renaissance France / The Baltimore Consort

French Traditional (Composer), Adrian Le Roy (Composer), Michael Praetorius (Composer), Jehan Chardavoine (Composer), Giovanni Bassano (Composer), Pierre Phalese (Composer), Jehan Planson (Composer), Louis Bourgeois (Composer), Anonymous (Composer), Thomas Champion (Composer, Performer), Claude Goudimel (Composer, Performer), Pierre Attaingnant (Composer), Claudin de Sermisy (Composer), Giovanni Battista Bassani (Composer), Pierre Certon (Composer), Robert [1] [Composer] Ballard (Composer), Daniel Bacheler (Composer), Eustache du Caurroy (Composer), Jacques Mangeant (Composer), Baltimore Consort (Performer), Ronn McFarlane (Artist), Chris Norman (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Thomas Champion, Claude Goudimel, Baltimore Consort
• Composer: French Traditional, Adrian Le Roy, Michael Praetorius, Jehan Chardavoine, Giovanni Bassano, et al.
• Audio CD (September 28, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Dorian Recordings
• ASIN: B000001Q9P
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #96,090 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #45 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Vocal Non-Opera > Chansons

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite + audiophile recording, May 25, 2005

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seaan (Bay Area California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: La Rocque 'n' Roll - Popular Music of Renaissance France / The Baltimore Consort (Audio CD)

I've attended Baltimore Consort performances a number of times, and they are just about my favorite early music group. They do an outstanding job of making "old" music come alive. Sometimes early music recordings are dry and academic, and the Baltimore Consort is as far from that as you can get. Finally, they have a great since of humor, which often peaks through in their music.

They specialize in popular secular tunes of the age. Their playing is impeccable, and most of the group are accomplished soloists. La Rocque 'n' Roll is probably my favorite recording of theirs, the songs are fun, interesting, and involving. The best of the best...

The fact that the recording is technically very good is a nice bonus. As a matter of fact, "Jean de Nivelle" (track 26) is the first thing I play when evaluating speakers. It helps that I've heard the performance live (and unamplified), so I have a real life comparison. The recoding clearly captures the nuances of the individual instruments. Although obviously not as loud as modern rock, the recording still gives challenges speaker dynamics. Unlike some gee whiz audiophile recordings, I can listen to these songs again and again.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If Led Zeppelin had been born 400 years earlier..., October 1, 1999

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Lise Kreps (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: La Rocque 'n' Roll - Popular Music of Renaissance France / The Baltimore Consort (Audio CD)

...and played the lute, they would've played like Ron McFarlane, and sang like Custer LaRue. Wonderful performances of 16th C popular music on historical instruments, with lovely twists of rock'n'roll performance techniques. Check out the jazzy krummhorn glissandos, the sexy lute strumming, the straight-ahead power vocal, and the hip plucked bass viol -- especially on the last track. This is my #1 "Desert Island Disk."

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A perfect album, February 21, 2000

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Kevin Delaney (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: La Rocque 'n' Roll - Popular Music of Renaissance France / The Baltimore Consort (Audio CD)

This is my favorite CD of all time. I've had it now for five years, I listen to it all the time, and I never get tired of it. Every track is enormously beautiful, from the bright and sunny tunes through the quieter and more melancholy ones.

This is a CD that sounds perfect in the early morning, late at night, or any other time of day.

I've become a huge fan of the Baltimore Consort (one of the highlights of my life was seeing the group perform the songs on this album live at Synod Hall in Pittsburgh, PA) and "La Rocque 'n' Roll" is their "Sgt. Pepper."