This recording celebrates those early seventeenth-century composers whose string music aspired to the innovative rhetorical gestures of vocal idioms. Many experimental genres from contemporary Venetian publications appear here. The best pieces sail ravishingly between strong contrapuntal frissons and maverick improvisatory contrast, though the forthright Sonatori de la Gioioso Marca are not quite sufficiently controlled to lure the listener into this mercurial outpost of the baroque.R1 '9908042'