The passion and study of the seventeenth-century repertoire is one of the main focuses of Alraune and led to the first recording project of the group: the complete recording of the first sonata book of the great composer of the seventeenth century Venetian.

From the beginning Alraune’s approach was of great adherence to the text but also of extreme freedom that in this recording is declined in the variety of instruments used to play the solo parts of the sonatas, looking for combinations that best highlighted the individual characters of the sonatas.

This interpretation was positively evidenced by Detlef Krenge of BR Klassik presenting the recording on German radio: “The musicians are so comfortable in this repertoire that listening to them does not even pose the problem of the authenticity of the interpretation. Even the many contrasts, typical of the Sonatas of Castello and more generally of the “Stil Moderno” of the early seventeenth century, seem to the Ensemble Alraune absolutely automatic, logical and natural.”