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Vivaldi double cello concerto5/15/2023 ![]() Vivaldi composed the Concerto for Two Cellos in Venice around 1720. As the musicologist and Italian Baroque specialist Michael Talbot writes, the “frenetic finale, see-sawing in rhythm and tonality alike, keeps one on the edge of one’s seat.” ![]() ![]() It is operatic yet ultimately rooted in the intimacy of the trio sonata. Set in sombre G minor, this is music which inhabits a magical, veiled world of nocturnal shadows. The second movement is a melancholy duet. Immediately, we are swept into a haunting and tempestuous drama. The first movement begins not with the standard tutti ritornello but with the two solo instruments taking center stage with a vigorous conversation in thirds. Out of the composer’s nearly 500 surviving concerti (30 of which feature the cello), it is the only “double” concerto for the instrument. The Concerto for Two Cellos in G minor, RV 531 is one of Antonio Vivaldi’s most intensely dramatic and convention-defying works.
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