Concerto Del Vivaldi / RV 332 in G minor (Autograph score)

For solo violin, strings and basso continuo Published as Opus 8 no. 8 I. Allegro (0:00) II. Largo (3:07) III. Allegro (6:22) Composed: , not later than 1725 Turin source: Giordano 30 The last movement contains Vivaldi’s second borrowing of Johann Paul von Westhoff’s Sonata no. 3, mvt 3 “Imitatione delle Campane“ (Imitation of Bells). Listen to Westhoff’s original: Vivaldi first borrowed this sonata movement in Violin Concerto RV 237 “facto per Maestro Pisendel“ (see ). This time, though, the material is more thoroughly reworked; and it is this passage that Vivaldi reused in yet another violin concerto, RV 349, found in Anna Maria’s Partbook. The autograph manuscript of RV 332 preserved in Turin diverges slightly from the version published in Amsterdam as part of Opus 8. These minor differences are observed in the recording, although the deletion in the last sol