Antonio Vivaldi
L'Estro Armonico | 12 Concertos, Op. 3 (Complete)
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Concerto for 4 Violins and Cello in D major, Op. 3 No. 1, RV 549:
0:00:00 I. Allegro
0:03:00 II. Largo e spiccato
0:05:25 III. Allegro
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano, Andrea Rognoni, Stefano Barneschi, Boris Begelman, Elisa Citterio

Concerto for 2 Violins and Cello in G minor, Op. 3 No. 2, RV 578:
0:07:49 I. Adagio e spiccato
0:09:22 II. Allegro
0:11:38 III. Larghetto
0:14:14 IV. Allegro
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano, Stefano Barneschi, Boris Begelman

Violin Concerto in G major, Op. 3 No. 3, RV 310:
0:16:38 I. Allegro
0:18:51 II. Largo
0:20:47 III. Allegro
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano, Stefano Barneschi

Concerto for 4 Violins in E minor, Op. 3 No. 4, RV 550:
0:23:06 I. Andante
0:25:11 II. Allegro assai
0:27:24 III. Adagio
0:28:07 IV. Allegro
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano, Stefano Barneschi, Boris Begelman, Elisa Citterio, Andrea Rognoni

Concerto for 2 Violins in A major, Op. 3 No. 5, RV 519:
0:30:10 I. Allegro
0:33:03 II. Largo
0:34:55 III. Allegro
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano, Stefano Barneschi, Andrea Rognoni

Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 3 No. 6, RV 356:
0:37:31 I. Allegro
0:40:26 II. Largo
0:43:06 III. Allegro
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano, Andrea Rognoni

Concerto for 4 Violins and Cello in F major, Op. 3 No. 7, RV 567:
0:45:29 I. Andante
0:48:46 II. Adagio
0:50:20 III. Allegro
0:52:47 IV. Adagio
0:53:48 V. Allegro
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano, Elisa Citterio, Andrea Rognoni, Stefano Barneschi, Boris Begelman

Concerto for 2 Violins in A minor, Op. 3 No. 8, RV 522:
0:55:15 I. Allegro
0:58:30 II. Larghetto e spiritoso
1:02:01 III. Allegro
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano, Elisa Citterio, Andrea Rognoni

Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 3 No. 9, RV 230:
1:05:05 I. Allegro
1:07:12 II. Larghetto
1:10:34 III. Allegro
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano, Boris Begelman

Concerto for 4 Violins and Cello in B minor, Op. 3 No. 10, RV 580:
1:12:44 I. Allegro
1:16:22 II. Largo Larghetto Adagio Largo
1:18:29 III. Allegro
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano, Boris Begelman, Elisa Citterio, Andrea Rognoni, Stefano Barneschi

Concerto for 2 Violins and Cello in D minor, Op. 3 No. 11, RV 565:
1:21:42 I. Allegro
1:22:27 II. Adagio e spiccato
1:25:28 III. Allegro
1:27:43 IV. Largo e spiccato Allegro
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano, Boris Begelman, Elisa Citterio, Andrea Rognoni, Stefano Barneschi

Violin Concerto in E major, Op. 3 No. 12, RV 265:
1:30:09 I. Allegro
1:33:46 II. Largo e molto acuto
1:37:41 III. Allegro
Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano, Elisa Citterio

L'estro armonico (The Harmonic Inspiration), Op. 3, is a set of 12 concertos for string instruments by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, first published in Amsterdam in 1711. Vivaldi's Twelve Trio Sonatas, Op. 1, and Twelve Violin Sonatas, Op. 2, only contained sonatas, thus L'estro armonico was his first collection of concertos appearing in print. It was also the first time he chose a foreign publisher, Estienne Roger, instead of an Italian.
The concertos belong to the concerto a 7 format, that is: for each concerto there are seven independent parts. In each consecutive group of three concertos, the first is a concerto for four violins, the second for two violins, and the third a solo violin concerto. The cello gets solistic passages in several of the concertos for four and two violins, so that a few of the concertos conform to the traditional Roman concerto grosso format where a concertino of two violins and cello plays in contrast to a string orchestra. L'estro armonico pioneered orchestral unisono in concerto movements.
Vivaldi composed a few concertos specifically for L'estro armonico, while other concertos of the set had been composed at an earlier date. Vivaldi scholar Michael Talbot described the set as "perhaps the most influential collection of instrumental music to appear during the whole of the eighteenth century".
(Source: Wikipedia)

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