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 only 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. Their first CD received rave reviews. On this, their second CD, early medieval polyphony is combined with music so young it requires state-of-the-art software and electronics to be reproduced. Though these form the two outer borders of Western music history, they somehow seem to elicit similar emotions and associations. Modern compositions here are based on medieval masterpieces. The story a piece of music wishes to tell is what most intrigues the ensemble; from that starting point, La Tricotea takes you through twists and turns in all directions and tantalizes until the last note has disappeared.