Vivaldi L'estro Armonico Concerto No. 8 in A Minor, RV 522

[Crybad1989]

#np Vivaldi L'estro Armonico Concerto No. 8 in A Minor, RV 522

[k545]

the part at 8.45 is so amazing, one of the most beautiful melodies

[Amelie578]

Youtube, pleeeeease don't remove this one!

[shavepate]

ahh!  so true!

thanks.

[AnderNirvana]

I love 8:49, I think vivaldi may be was an fallen angel :)

[AnderNirvana]

concerto No. 8 is the most beautifull music in the world, I am adicted to vivaldi too, and I feel happy for that :)

[jsw663]

I'm torn between two great choices... do I like this version or Bach's organ transcription (BWV 593) more? They're both excellent!

[Fozzymaple]

@jsw663 I love Vivaldi (well, I'm a string player...what did you expect), seriously, though, I think Vivaldi is somewhat under-appreciated, and could easily listen to Vivaldi all day. Being an organ nerd (and a lousy organist), I face your same dilemma, however, I think the original wins out over the transcription.

[shavepate]

i feel sooo warm and somehow so cold at the same time...bothered.

just as good music should.

[Demighoul]

@shavepate Only bland music plays on the pleasant emotions.

[ginocoucou]

Sublime !!!................. (pas de mot !)

[4763060]

it's extraordinary!!!!!!!!!!!

[cianurus]

Vivaldi vir excelsus!

[Maroichi]

Love it. Wonderfull from 8:47 to 9:26

[crob647gtx]

yeah, thats always been my favorite portion of this concerto too....just sublime.

[Lourdes2194]

I' m Spanish.

I will play this in february. It's a beautiful concert!

I love it :)

[lienylieny]

I have played this yesterday on a concert for Christmas :D:D

[crazyfvck]

Beautiful

[Santoslhelpa]

sweeeeeeeeet

[brendala1214]

I have the sheets to this. But I'm playing it for orchestra so my teacher gave it to me.

[thekidafier]

What orchestra are you in?

[Santoslhelpa]

im sorry im a 29year old guy on blink182 sum41 and depeche mode.

classical music is a monolith forme. andi liked 2 songs only. i asked in some forum wahtthey are.

-suprise BOTH were from vivaldi one was this theother was the second part of 4seasons-summer

[elias12186]

keep exploring vivaldi then, he wrote hundreds of concertos, all relatively with the same structure. Check out the rest of l'estro armonico and la stravaganza

[Makchoo7]

a monolith forme ?!

[dblueroom]

try vivaldi's tempsta di mare - i think you'd enjoy it too

[alanrikrdo]

If you like Vivaldi, you should listen Bach "the concert for oboe and violin" its excellent, it will like you, and listen "Winter" from Vivaldi too.

Blink its excellent, I like it.

[brendala1214]

The orchestra at my school

[Papuracer]

I REALLY WANT THIS SHEET MUSIC. CAN ANYONE PLEASsSE TELL ME WHERE TO FIND IT! (im poor musician :/)

[juicystarfan]

this is great musique i absoluty love it!

[deepestrick]

fuck bach, love vivaldi and become allmighty italian like me.

[errbarkkill]

Antonio was off the hook with them violins.

[thekidafier]

Hey eli, did you go to douglass?

[maggiemae70]

NO I DIDN'T

[dolofonos]

Love and prefer Vivaldi all you wish, but say he is 'supreme to Bach' and your opinions become inadmissible.

[Anjoucat]

Yes, I love V hugely and am often in his company but somehow Mr B just has the complexity and range of possibilities, colour and profundity in his music that makes him finally greater than Antonio. But who would you rather have dinner with??? I can't decide.

[dolofonos]

For myself, I would have the company of Bach. He seems to have been such a likable man, but besides, my own instrument is the keyboard; and then there is the prospect of a hearty German meal followed by music from his family--that is something I would gladly have had a cup of coffee with!

[Anjoucat]

Yes dolofonos.. I think I agree too!!

[BECERRAPACHECO]

super magnifico

[Darodx]

WTF! SHIT !!!!!

[classifieds103]

It's funny. Romantic Composers CAN sound alike. I can say the same for Baroque except for Vivaldi. His is pure and unclassified ingenuity. I used to think Bach was the supreme but i believe it goes to Vivaldi after listening to more of his music. It's just unlike anything. And although he uses similar patterns for each of his piece, it;s a different experience and emotion every time

[ultranom]

Things like this are always a matter of personal taste. I love and admire both Bach's and Vivaldi's music but in sheer intellectuality (Art of the Fugue) and in emotional expression (Mass in B minor) I still think Bach is the 'supreme' composer.

[sampledogcopycat]

Still my favorite Vivaldi concerto of all time.

[syren345]

Oh I don't know, number 11 in this opus is a contender... but I think this wins still :)

[sampledogcopycat]

I love number 11, too. I think they are just different. Number 11 has a solemn, even somewhat cynical, quality to it... this piece sounds more like a typical Vivaldi, I think. It's hard for me to discribe this concerto. Perhaps it's the reason why I like it so much :)

[gotkha]

i played the cello for the first part of this...

[adrianrafel]

We can meet! jejejej

I played the DoubleBass (same basso continuo)

ajjaajaaj

It's a fantastic concert!!!

[syren345]

I originally played cello then switched to bass when my orch. played this piece.. I've been playing bass since :)

[dolofonos]

Eh, as so many do, I myself wouldn't call masters like Vivaldi the historical equivalent of rock-stars. The modern rock-star is merely the street-musician that performs the_musica simplex_ who was just as common in Vivaldi's time but has today with the deterioration of the classes managed to usurp the composers of _musica composita_ and taken--no, exceeded--their stature of wealth and fame, though not and never their stature as composers.

[davidesteban123]

totally agree!

[qualcunomingoi]

Estro: dal greco OISTROS che significa "puntura", "stimolo", "furore" e in modo speciale quell'insetto (Tafano od Assillo) che pungendo fa entrare le bestie in un furore.

Vivaldi è il mio ASSILLO dunque!

[Bmintruder223]

I am studying this piece right now with my private teacher. I am playing first as well, and it's a lot of fun to play!

[bellota190878]

vivaldi the first rocker!

[Silverlin212]

sooo true!

[LTGeorgeWashington]

I played the 2nd violin part for the first part of this in my high school's winter concert.

[Amelie578]

Somebody please tell me what to do with my hopeless Vivaldi addiction...

[homousios]

embrace it! Key to happiness and longevity is a good dose of vivaldi!

[Silverlin212]

Amen! Take vivaldi at the very least once day to ignite appreciation of life and overall well being, best taken in the morning to help jump-start your day :)

[homousios]

thanks. you are so right an rx of vivaldi taken once a day is good for existential angst!

[441stein]

Bach was a great admirer of Vivaldi, the greatest musician ever lived, so why worry

[idaspe]

@Amelie578 There is no hope, my friend... I'm sick like you :o)

[DuMistmensch]

BEST!

[syren345]

i remember playing this in orchestra class last year good times :)

first time playing on upright bass and first time playing with no conductor. man that was fun... :)

[OmnipotentCarbon60]

One can not say « I love more one of the greatest composers over another greatest », they are all musically gorgeous and catchy. It depends on your background, even genetic background.

Question: If you have been ordered by force to eliminate 10 nor 20 composers of the last 5 centuries or so, which would you choose without deteriorating the progress of music?

The majority of music lovers loves Vivaldi because he is a very sensual and sexual composer. Antonio loved great musical orgasms.

[kettlebellconvert]

...

really

[OmnipotentCarbon60]

kettlebellconvert - yes, really. Study music theory & composition and musicology & music history, then compare composers of Vivaldi time with Vivaldi, and you will have to reach the same or similar conclusion. This concerto No 8 is a glaring example of gorgeous musical sex, I mean righteous sex with your own legitimate wife and no other perversion.

[SuperSageSire]

HAHA, excellent explanation.

[dolofonos]

Kettlebellconvert, I'm with you and the "..." I hear the _galante_, I hear the _fiammeggiante_; but little else and certainly not anything that could be concocted in but the most arrogant and ignorant college classroom by a pathetic mind as incapable writing great music as it is quick to analyze it after the fashion of its own perverseness.

[WesMan200]

My favorite Baroque era compser (and Bach too, but I love Vivaldi). And of course, Purcell. :)

[anjulirobin]

Beautiful! Vivaldi is underestimated by snobs who say he makes too many progressions and so on... go away... just listen to a piece like this one! "BELLO ES LO QUE GUSTA" ("Beautiful is what you like")

[unvmoi]

I know.

Don't you hate those mean musical snobs?

I love Vivaldi, but there's always got to be a musical snob who undermines him.

Music wasn't made for being snobby, music was made for expression.

So many people have forgotten its true meaning, and turned it into a circus.

Back in the days of Vivaldi, music was music.

[anjulirobin]

I'm glad you're so young and yet have such a serious and good criteria of music. I have seen you playing in you video, and I have seen several videos in your Favorites to put in mine! I wish you the best in your career! :-)

[unvmoi]

Hey man, i'm just telling it from my own perpective.

Music is one of the greatest creations of mankind, it's important to use it wisely.

[ashraniyyah]

Very true, but other composers or musical traditions had been considered elitist in his era, as well.

[alefoxtrot]

I still think this is one of the better melodies he composed. Bach in fact was amazed by it. He transcribed the whole 522 for Organ years later

[Lotiolenti]

Yeah, I like that one, too. Especially how he does the third movement.

[Galiah13]

To spaccapiano:E Lei hai questa trascrizione?

[trabalhosmanuais]

bwv 593-organ concerto in a minor. i love this concerto

[jewish1972]

O,K., but the original instruments version sounds more lively & thrilling to me, with those strings with "trastes" (dont know the english word)

[jewish1972]

the slow mov. could have been played a bit slower & definitely the harpsichord goes better with this music

[mspg2]

I would normally agree, but with the higher registerof the violins, the calm contrast from the chamber organ is delightful in this slow movement. Note the chamber organ's higher notes come through in the continuo in the final movement. Bravo

[jewish1972]

Strange that Marriner doesnt use XVIII century instruments & harsichord

[frederickletterblair]

I heard this when I was a kid. I never knew

what it was but I've always remembered.

Incredible listening to it again.

[Lotiolenti]

I hate when that happens. With classical music you can humm it to people and no one will know. You can't even search for lyrics. Glad you found it :)

[spaccapiano]

stupendo!

è molto bella anche la trascrizione per organo di Bach!

Vivaldi, Vivaldi... grandioso!

sono lontani i tempi durante i quali l'italia esportava grandi artisti e importanti personalità!

[Fullperson]

lol another student and I played this for a recital. I had no idea this is how it is supposed to sound! We were close XD

[aramian21]

I have fallen in love with this music. Thanks fr the post

[Galiah13]

The whole concerto is splendid! But I have fallen in love with the 2-d part of it.

[sjmh280491]

and you shold listen it ina faster version... it's great..

[eleventytwelfthprez]

how does this have only 177 views? On the organ it reigns supreme. on violins it is subtle with vivaldi's fruity touch