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Legrenzi / Albinoni / Reniero - Cinque - String Sonatas

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Format: CD
Label: Urania
Rel. Date: 03/22/2024
UPC: 8051773578106

Cinque - String Sonatas
Artist: Legrenzi / Albinoni / Reniero
Format: CD
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The five-part writing for strings has it's period of greatest development in the 16th and 17th centuries, only to fall into a progressive obsolescence. The most commonly used instrumental ensemble included two violins, alto and tenor viola da braccio, cello and basso continuo. Of this quintet, the instrument that undergoes a progressive dismissal is the viola tenore, which in this recording we propose in it's original late seventeenth century mounting.
        
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