トリオ・リグヌム ～ トリアログ

2本のクラリネットとファゴットで編成されるトリオと、ゲストにツィンバロンを迎えてのアルバム。
ハンガリーの2人の現代作曲家の作品を15世紀と16世紀の巨匠の音楽で挟んでいます。この大胆な構成は、単に4つの音楽を好きな順番で聴くだけでなく、新しい価値観、新しい音楽の構成を発見しようと試みています。
東京エムプラス

The Hungarian Trio Lignum consists of two clarinets and a bassoon, an exceptionally mellow and mellifluous ensemble. The program here includes four works, two contemporary pieces framed by transcriptions of two Renaissance works. Ockeghem's Missa Sine Nomine was written for three voices, so it's a natural for arrangement for three wind instruments with strong vocal qualities. In Trio Lignum's understated performance, it's serenely abstract and meditative. Thomas Tallis' Felix Namque, originally for keyboard, probably organ, is more varied and colorful in its effect, due in part to the addition of a part for cimbalom, played by Ildiko Vekony. The juxtaposition of the organ-like sustained notes of the trio and the brittle, percussive sound of the cimbalom is texturally fascinating in this arrangement by Adam Kondor. Zsolt Serei places one of the clarinets offstage in his Dream drawings, and its distance gives it a timbre distinctive from that of the other clarinet. Each of the three instruments inhabits its own musical world, with little apparent coordinated interaction with the others, so while the piece does capture the irrationality of dreams, it has an aimless, meandering quality. Jozsef Sari's Trialog, in contrast, is a perky and witty bagatelle. The ensemble plays with warmth and finesse, and with sensitivity to the variety of these four pieces. The sound is clean, with a nice sense of presence and intimacy.