Adagio molto again throws on lyricism and melancholy. Allegro gives the soloist a lot of fun passages, moving between lyrical, spritely, and intense.

This movement’s brevity makes it feel more like an interlude, making way for the fury of the Presto. The soloist’s lyricism in the Adagio is offset with intense, repetitive interjections by the orchestra. Allegro non molto is blistering and fierce like the scorching summer sun. Allegro pastorale sees a return to the triumph of the first movement. The soloist sings the melody with the support of the orchestra. Largo e pianissimo sempre is lyrical and melancholic. In Allegro, we hear the flutter of bird calls between the soloist and the concertmaster (listen to the violas later on you may hear a barking dog!). 8, RV 269, is in E major, a key signature associated with a bright, happy character. These would become core features of the concerto: a classical genre where a solo instrument is supported/in conversation with a larger ensemble, usually an orchestra. Here are several things to listen for: the alteration between sections where the soloist plays with the orchestra and when the soloist is the star ( ritornello form) the fast-slow-fast structure of the concerto the return of the main melody near the end of the movement ( proto-sonata form). But since each sonnet is divided into sections that align with each concerto’s three movements, he likely did. We don’t know for sure that Vivaldi wrote them. Each concerto evokes a particular season, accompanied by a sonnet that describes different seasonal +scenarios.

One of Vivaldi’s most famous is The Four Seasons, four concertos for violin, strings, and basso continuo (a supportive part often played by a harpsichord or other keyboard instrument). He didn’t he wrote at least 300, some think as many as 500, though not all of them have survived. Some folks joke that Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) wrote the same concerto 200 times.

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