INTRODUCTION The Four Seasons: Sonnet Texts Bibliography Il Cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest of Harmony and Invention) Twelve Concertos for violin, strings, and continuo (Opus 8) THE FOUR SEASONS (OPUS 8, NOS. 1-4) Concerto No. 1 in E Major: La Primavera (Spring) (Op. 8, No. 1 / RV 269) I. Allegro II. Largo III. Allegro Concerto No. 2 in G Minor: L'Estate (Summer) (Op. 8, No. 2 / RV 315) I. Allegro non molto II. Adagio III. Presto Concerto No. 3 in F Major: L'Autunno (Autumn) (Op. 8, No. 3 / RV 293) I. Allegro II. Adagio molto III. Allegro Concerto No. 4 in F Minor: L'Inverno (Winter) (Op. 8, No. 4 / RV 297) I. Allegro non molto II. Largo III. Allegro OTHER VIOLIN CONCERTOS (OPUS 8, NOS. 5-12) Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major: La Tempesta di Mare (The Storm at Sea) (Op. 8, No. 5 / RV 253) I. Presto II. Largo III. Presto Concerto No. 6 in C Major: Il Piacere (Pleasure) (Op. 8, No. 6 / RV 180) I. Allegro II. Largo e cantabile III. Allegro Concerto No. 7 in D Minor (Op. 8, No. 7 / RV 242) I. Allegro II. Largo III. Allegro Concerto No. 8 in G Minor (Op. 8, No, 8 / RV 332) I. Allegro II. Largo III. Allegro Concerto No. 9 in D Minor (Op. 8, No. 9 / RV 236) I. Allegro II. Largo III. Allegro Concerto No. 10 in B-flat Major: La Caccia (The Hunt) (Op. 8, No. 10 / RV 362) I. Allegro II. Adagio III. Allegro Conceto No. 11 in D Major (Op. 8, No. 11 / RV 210) I. Allegro II. Largo III. Allegro Concerto No. 12 in C Major (Op. 8, No. 12 / RV 178) I. Allegro II. Largo III. Allegro IMPORTANT VARIANTS How to Use the Variants Concerto No. 7 in D Minor (RV 242) Allegro (Movement I) a. Substitute for Bars 50-76 Concerto No. 9 in D Minor (RV (Version for Oboe, Strings and Continuo, RV 454) Allegro (Movement I) a. Substitute for Bars 91-102 Concerto No. 11 in D Major (RV 210) Allegro (Movement I) a. Substitute for Bars 100-112 b. Substitute for Bars 122-132 Allegro (Movement II) c. Substitute for Bars 38-67 d. Substitute for Bars 113-154 e. Substitute for Bars 171-214 f. Substitute for Bars 171-208 CRITICAL NOTES The Sources The Amsterdam Print The Dresden Manuscripts The Manchester Partbooks The Turin Autograph Scores The Dover Edition Text Fonts Used in The Four Seasons

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Ed. critica M. Talbot - Riduzione per canto e pianoforte di A. Frigé-The Dixit Dominus RV 595 shares a key and some further characteristics with the better-known setting of the same psalm RV 594 but differs from it markedly: first in being scored for an undivided ensemble (i.e. not ?in due cori?): second in belonging to Vivaldi?s first period of sacred music composition around 1715 rather than to a later period. There are stylistic parallels too with Vivaldi?s two Gloria settings RV 588 and RV 589. Three of the eleven movements making up RV 595 use borrowed material which in two instances is taken from movements by unknown composers in Vivaldi?s own collection and in one instance (heavily disguised) from a published madrigal(1705) by Antonio Lotti. The borrowings are absorbed extremely well into the fabric of the setting and do not disrupt its well-unified character. Among the high points of RV 595 are its opening pair of moments ? the first bustling and the second poignantly reflective ? and the fourth movement ?Tecum principium? where two obbligato cellos enter into dialogue with two sopranos. This Dixit Dominus preserved uniquely in Prague ranks among Vivaldi?s finest large-scale sacred vocal compositions. The Introduction and Critical Commentary for this vocal score are based on the Critical Edition by Michael Talbot published in 1993.

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