Each concerto is associated with a sonnet, possibly by Vivaldi, describing the scenes depicted in the music.

They were a revolution in musical conception: in them Vivaldi represented flowing creeks, singing birds (of different species, each specifically characterized), barking dogs, buzzing mosquitoes, crying shepherds, storms, drunken dancers, silent nights, hunting parties from both the hunters' and the prey's point of view, frozen landscapes, ice-skating children, and warming winter fires.

The inspiration for the concertos was probably the countryside around Mantua. Though three of the concerti are wholly original, the first, 'Spring', borrows motifs from a Sinfonia in the first act of Vivaldi's contemporaneous opera Il Giustino.

The current score was digitized and printed in Rome in 2020 with the progressive serial number: CS2781 from the Santino Cara catalog.During this period Vivaldi wrote the Four Seasons, four violin concertos that give musical expression to the seasons of the year. All this was possible thanks to the use of copies of the manuscripts kept in the 'Hall of Manuscripts of the University Library of Turin'. This Concerto was rebuilt in 1972 for 2 concertante cellos and strings with two violins, violas, cellos, double basses with the development of the continuo for harpsichord. But careful studies also with the aid of testimonies dating back to about 1749 reported on letters sent by some Venetian concert players, make us almost certainly ascertain that Vivaldi composed this concert in 1728 and that the writing on the manuscript is not by Vivaldi but by copyists of the period. Source: The year in which Vivaldi composed this concert is not known because there is no certain evidence that attests to a precise date. Reconstructed and elaborated in Rome in 1972 by Santino Cara.ģ Movements: 1. Complete score and parts of the 'Concerto in G minor RV 531' for Two concertante Cellos, Strings and Cembalo.

Concerto for 2 cellos in g minor