The Food of Love: Songs, Dances, and Fancies for Shakespeare

Featuring

Danielle Svonavec
Mindy Rosenfeld
Mary Anne Ballard
Mark Cudek
Larry Lipkis
Ronn McFarlane

The Baltimore Consort
Jean d'Estrée
Anonymous
Thomas Morley
Robert Jones
Richard Edwardes
Anthony Holborne
Thomas Robinson
John Dowland
John Playford
John Johnson
Robert Johnson
Anonymous (Traditional)

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Performer Biography

The Baltimore Consort has earned recognition as Top Classical-Crossover Artist of the Year by Billboard and has toured extensively in the U.S. and abroad.

Performer Biography

The Baltimore Consort, founded in 1980, has explored early English, Scottish, and French popular music, focusing on the relationship between folk and courtly art song and dance.

Instruments

The 'exquisite consort' that entertained Queen Elizabeth in 1591, consisting of lute, bandora, bass viol, cittern, treble viol, and flute, is the exact equivalent of the Baltimore Consort's instrumentation.

Compositional Technique

Elizabethan consort music, like Shakespeare's plays, appealed to both common audiences and sophisticated listeners by combining popular ballad tunes with rich harmony and melodic embellishment.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded at the Leighton Concert Hall, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, University of Notre Dame, using Merging Technologies Horus and Hapi, in DXD at 24 bit, 352.8kHz.

Composition History

Robert Johnson is well-documented as Shakespeare's composer, with his settings for 'Full Fathom Five' and 'Where the Bee Sucks' from The Tempest believed to be the original performances.