专辑简介

This revolutionary combination of baroque oboe, its sisters oboe d'amore and oboe da caccia, and baroque bassoon, wind instruments of old world boxwood, leather and double reeds, together with modern gleaming brass saxophones and percussion is the first ensemble of its kind. Yet these instruments, though 250 years apart in age, have such similar timbres, that one would seem to hear a choir. Medieval and Renaissance music is given a voice not heard before, performed by musicians from leading early music ensembles. The music critics in the Netherlands, where the CD was first released, awarded it the highest possible 5-star rating, stating "extraordinarily exquisite sound" and "tightly-knit, aristocratic performance" of a "mature musicianship", and calling the CD a "bull's-eye".