A Cinque String Sonatas between XVII & XVIII Century GIOVANNI LEGRENZI (1626-1690) Sonata op. 8 n. 12 "La Marinona" Sonata op. 8 n. 11 "La Fugazza" GEORG MUFFAT (1653-1704) Sonata prima da Armonico Tributo in Re Maggiore TOMASO ALBINONI (1671-1751) Sonata Op. 2 n. 6 in Sol minore Sonata Op. 2 n. 3 in Do Maggiore GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN (1671-1751) Sonata Op. 2 n. 6 in Sol minore Il Trattenimento Armonico Nicola Reniero, Direttore al Cembalo Matteo Rozzi, violin I | Arianna Brandalise, violin II Martina Pettenon, Viola Contralto Luca Lazzarini, Viola Tenore Caterina Colelli, Cello The five-part writing for strings has its 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 its original late seventeenth century mounting.