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  • Lastly I love his descending 5th..that never gets old for me!

  • You know now that i think about it it Vivaldi sometimes reminds me of piazzolla in a wierd way!

  • How the hell are there dislikes on this. How.

  • I'm playing this: slow, ok, but at this speed?! Bravo!

  • El primer movimiento está increible

  • BASS DROP

  • 6 like justin biber.........................­.

  • best part starts at 1:40

  • el primer movimiento esta increible

  • @fisgonfaltoso de hecho.... en cuanto comienza a tocar el cello y el piano o clavicordio... no sé, pero se me ha puesto la carne de gallina.

  • 5 like reggaeton

  • Pure bliss

  • whats tht bass sound? is tht j the super low notes of a harpsichord?

  • @Musicalme96 Do you mean the Cello?

  • @lonely270 no theres sum percussive twangy sound...i cant tell what it could be

  • @Musicalme96 perhaps there is a lute in there...

  • @Musicalme96 Either a lute or the harpsichord

  • @Musicalme96 it's a theorbo ... lutes are much quieter than that and the theorbo has that very distinctive sound/tamber to it :)

  • Great !

    Whose painting is this ?

  • Tenebroso, folle, passionale...meraviglioso!

  • minha favorita de Vivaldi

  • Whats the painting? :D

  • Fantastic sound quality, and as someone commented Yes the tempo is so perfect. Baroque is just the most stimulating AND relaxing music I know. So so beautiful.

    HARMONICUM: Thank you for all the baroque uploads, and the beautiful paintings as "covers". But I wish you would identify the paintings as well!

  • Fantastic sound quality, and as someone commented Yes the tempo is so perfect. Baroque is just the most stimulating AND relaxing music I know. So so beautiful.

    HARMONICUM: Thank you for all the baroque uploads, and the beautiful paintings as "covers".  But I wish you would identify the paintings as well!

  • I just can hear this beautiful sound forever, thank you Antonio Vivaldi!his repertoir lives on!...angelic!

  • I just can hear this beautiful sound forever, thank you Antonio Vivaldi!his repertoir live on!

  • ♪♫♥ !

  • do you have the other movements?

  • Vivaldi was amazing at writing fugues!

  • Just went to Itunes and bought what I thought was this piece by Tafelmusik... and it wasn't the same, HARMONICO101 where did you get this from?

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  • 4 people are robots

  • I agree, the speed is just perfect.

    So flawless from the beginning to the end.

    This is thus far the best rendition out there, in my opinion.

  • do you know who perfomed this? I have a different version by the English Concert if you would like to hear it - its still the same piece :) Thanks for this - its amazing music :P my favourite :)

  • MAGALOMANIA THAT'S WHAT I FEEL WHEN I HEAR THIS¡¡¡¡¡¡

  • HARMONICO101, Could you send me the video of the symphony in C major RV 111, Vivaldi?? the three movements, because I can'T see those videos from youtube, because they forbidden in my country because they contained UMG, please, I love that symphony, especially the second movement

  • Marvelous recording! Music doesn't get any better than this.

  • this is a great version, but i still like my copy of trevor pinnock and the english concert. still this is amazing!

  • you guys realize that these is the most beautiful music made. Vivaldi, Bach, Telemann, did this because they loved it and they could make a decent living out of it. They were PURE musicians, they didn't make millions of dollars out of this, nor they spent 200 hours in the studio putting together 3 minute love tunes in order to bang chicks everyday. All they had was a bench, a candle, and a violin. Respect Respect.

  • @pilotoatomico Yes and even though they weren't popular in their day... much of their music forgotten for almost a century and then later to be rediscovered... the music today is still alive and kicking. That's a feat for any musician. will people still listen to nickelback or justin beiber 300 years from now? I think not.

  • @pilotoatomico

    Actaully, Telemann was QUITE a successful composer. I read his autobiography that he had written, and he had claimed that he was being payed millions of dollars (in modern times of course - I forget what currency they had in Baroque period Germany).

  • This music is played on period instruments,just like in the time of Vivaldi.

    Gut strings and baroque bows of the 18th century.

    Pure authentic sound........

    You have to be educated in music,to aprecciate this magnificient recording,LOL

  • @rareviolins

    oh my,

    arnt you a proud puppy

  • @rareviolins No, you don't. That's why it's good music.

  • @rareviolins

    One doesn't have to be eduacated just to appreciate beautiful recordings, that's the most stupid thing I've ever heard.

  • i don't care what anyone says, this makes my pants feel funny.

  • the melody which Vivaldi starts at 1:07 is perhaps one of the plainest melodies that he ever wrote. Indeed, Vivaldi, having been known the world over for elegant and "frilled" music, seems to take a step out of character for a moment to make this melody. This piece confirms his amazing ability to construct both flowery pieces as well as simple, unadulterated beauty. In my study at conservatory, i have been exposed to numerous outstanding composers who i didn't know, but none yet match Vivaldi

  • lol i tried playing the cello solo part to this with the music playing in the background and i forgot that this was a semi-tone lower :P

  • @slothfat I had the exact same problem!! It was absolutely driving me crazy until I listened a bit closer - oops, there's a HUGE difference between playing in D minor and playing in C# minor ;)

  • @brigmahf Haha I know! I wish just all music would have the same tuning, but even back then everywhere you go the tuning was different! Now I've never had perfect pitch, but I think since I started to listen to baroque music, my pitch has got off! My brother would ask me to sing an A but I'd sing a G#! Its probably because i listen to this stuff all day, and thats all!

  • 1:07 reminds me of Bach's concerto for Harpsichords in D minor.The very beginning of it.

  • @deadbutfree33 Well, Bach and Vivaldi did steal from each other. You'll find that a lot of their works sound very similar for that reason.

  • Oh my god that fugue is pure terrorism.

  • In his own time Vivaldi was most famous for his operas, which were not preserved. The music by which he is known in our era is not what earned him such widespread renown, and it is not difficult to imagine that the pieces he wrote for the girls of the orphanage were less extravagant than what he produced for the theatre.

  • this music and vivaldi is

  • This is a Bach's organ work D: !!! sounds better in organ haha

  • too fast!

  • While I fundamentally disagree with Forcroi's notion that Vivaldi's music is less worthy of attention just because it's simpler and more repetitive than other composers of the same period (And that part is true. Musicians commonly joke that Vivaldi just wrote one violin concerto.), I must say that the "Then why don't you go do it?" arguments are horribly annoying. Please stop making them! You don't need to be able to produce something in order to be able to judge its quality!

  • @Nibor7301 In any case, the music is very nice to listen to. I adore the fugue to bits.

    And, that's all music really needs to be worth listening to. Inovation, intellectual richness and craft are bonuses.

  • are you sure that there are three movements here, because the first two would be pretty short.

  • love how the cello kicks in with a circle of fifths progression.

  • Just great

  • After 2 secons this was put into my favourites list.

  • hey didn't know Vivaldi wrote fugues... wow...

  • Those are awful short movements. They're really nice sounding but I wish Vivaldi did a bit more than do something that's equivalent to a friend saying "Oh! oh! Guess what? Something exciting happened!" and then refusing to tell you what the exciting event was. Nonetheless great performance.

  • @tmack1337

    Yes, I do it to.

  • think bachs version is better. but just the fugue.

    it has extra voices and sounds really dramatic

  • After the "adagio" there is a fuga...

  • The best piece Vivaldi ever wrote!!!

  • This music is SLIGHTLY similar to Shastokovich and Glass at the beginning before it becomes totally Vivaldi.

    I also enjoy the way that Vivaldi uses the Theorbo, as a perfect accent to the music.

  • i prefer the slower versions of this concerto,.. however one of my favourites

  • Very beautiful piece!

    And what is the name of the painting?

  • Great, but slightly too fast.

  • I like this concerto. But I can´t play with this, because here is the a' on 440hz. mine is on the modern ?Lage?`.

  • It´s great! It´s like in the barock. I like it very much.

  • I love the period instruments !

  • Vivaldi sait comment me faire du bien! Sa musique me prend à un niveau supérieur de l'esprit, j'ai toujours écouter sa musique quand j'ai besoin de rester calme.

  • increiblemente hermoso!!!!

  • this is so much fun to play and to listen to! beautiful!

  • the best version I've heard!!!!

  • TafelMusik has the best baroque interpretations, they really know how to make a 300 year old piece have life again

  • I love it <3

    I am playing the second violin part at the moment :D

  • I absolutely love this piece . Much better version than the one I initially knew.

    I'm curious, how do you happen to find all this wonderful music? I look, but cannot find very many CD's like those in your possession anywhere.

  • Our ensemble is playing this but it isn't as fast or fancy or the harpsichord.

    It is for our entire ensemble (strings)

  • it's bass continuo

  • Basso continuo is the way the bass part is written, not the instrument it's played on. That, as mentioned before, is a theorbo.

  • @marfdasko Yes, marfdasko is absolutely right. "Basso continuo" refers to the way it is played (semi improvised, based on the cello/bass part). It is most often played on either harpsichord or lute (theorbo is a kind of really big lute). Sometimes you hear the basso continuo part played on organ.

    These days it isn't always improvised. Many modern editions of the sheet music have "fully figured" basso continuo parts so that a keyboardist can play it who doesn't know how to improvise.

  • I've heard basso continuo parts written as they were originally (a set of notations about chord structure) compared to jazz sheets. They are used in a somewhat similar way.

  • OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!

  • hermoso!!! *-*

  • This is in baroque tuning, a half step down. Also, anyone know what that very bassy noise is? sounds like a bass lute or something (fucking awesome)

  • Something = Theorbo (Tiorbo) perhaps.

  • Correct, it is a theorbo.

  • this sounds pretty low for d or am i wrong, anyway very nice thanks harmonico!:)

  • a classical fan, never heard of this man...tried to google this musical mastermind...i only got related material mostly "Viva La Diva"...what a piece of shit world we live in. LOLOLOL!!!!!!

  • MAsterpiece

  • Beautiful!

  • this piece is incredible!

  • Thanks Harmonico101!!! This is absolutley my favourite piece! I fell in love with this the first time my strings teacher introduced it to my class. The first and last movement are my favourite.

  • this sounds a bit like the dido and aeneas overture...

  • Extremely well played I'm playing this with my buddies

  • The image of the rich people, of course. I'm not so fond of rich people.

  • I respect your subjective experience. However, I just can see my soul and mind traveling through beauty, perfection and meaning and celebrating the power of sentiment, what is this music; it is an experience that takes me apart of the surrounding world.

  • I don't care about people having more or less than me =) and less allow this fact to ruin such an exciting experience.

  • In other words, here you are listening not only Vivaldi, you are also listening Bach

  • Similarly, the bass has been embellished in the ritornello in BWV 978, from Vivaldis Op. 3 No. 3. In many movement of Bachs transcription, the ritornello has sixteenth-notes in the bass. All is well documented. The third movement of the Concerto in G BWV 973 the orchestral unison in several ritornelli and tutti passages is complemented by Bach with a very virtuoso (and totally new) bass line.

  • qu'est-ce qui vous permet sur le premier mouvement de modifier complétement

    les appogiatures de ce concerto ?

  • the beginning and end are awesome, but like the end of the middle part sounds like he just threw some notes in there at random. solo's are really good too.

  • aight guys don't get your panties in a bunch now.

  • And the other reason:The Baroque style doesn't want to recreate and explain the whole world or universe in one piece of music in an individualistic way. This is the concept of the romantic era, witch contains its own failure in itself. The Baroque style never fails when there is a master at work like Vivaldi who knows the technik of affects, rhetorikal figures and virtuoso possebilities of the instruments. And by the way, Bach's Concertos wouldn't be possible without Vivaldi's influence on Bach.

  • Violinscratcher,

    I dont know if you are aware that precisely this concerto from Opus-3 was arranged by Bach, it is said to have additional Bachs features. I believe this, since Bach spirit also fly here, it is a wonderful combination the original Vivaldi emotion married with Bach harmony. All little detail resemble from the beginning to the end FUGA.

  • Oh realy? I didn't know that! Is there a version on YouTube? Or can you give me the name or the BWV-Number?

  • The very same concerto that we are listening here is an enriched Bach transcription. Note the FUGA parts in every fast movement unusual in Vivaldi.s originals. In the transcription Bach compensate Vivaldis violin melodic elaboration by increasing BASS voice and FUGA voices. He, for example increased the contrast in density the first movement of BWV 976 (from Vivaldis last piece of LEstro Armonico) has sixteenth-note embellishment of the bass.

  • In his time Vivaldi was the most modern composer. The soloconcerto is an invention by himself. And this is one reason why he wrote so many concertos. He experimented an developed this new genre like Haydn did with the Symphonie or the String Quartett.

  • Tafelmusik is AWESOME! Thank you!

  • there are aproximately two dozen vivaldi concerti that are indeed the greatest examples of the form,but for the other hundreds of works he deserves little recognition, as Quantz has put it in his 1752 book, Vivaldi messed up his style by too frequent opera composing...

  • Personally, I've listened to hundreds of Vivaldi concerti and I still find new and amazing music. Vivaldi does something for me that no other composer does. Also personally, I don't give a shit what Quantz thought. :) I make my own opinions.

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  • Vivaldi??? ur crazy, an idiot, he has so many famous pieces. the four seasons?!?! maybe if you dont have taste for classic music, but please

  • That's the most arrogant thing I've heard. This kind of pompousness drives me crazy.

    It's beautiful music. If you can't hear that than maybe your heart should grow a few sizes.

  • @HARMONICO101 I can't understand people who just can't enjoy this music.

    Thank you for all your uploads I spend my days listening to your music very inspiring.

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  • Vivaldi being overestimated?????

    You are KIDDING! He never did waste his talent!

    Anyways, he can never being respected, honoured and "estimated" enough.

    His music so rich and deep that no one can or ever will be able to reach the bottom and final end of his true genius.

  • @Forcroi How elegantly can we all criticize great works of great people while seated back in our comfortable chair : going like "deepening the horizons should be done like this and like that ...." !!!!

    Maybe you can post us some of YOUR deep-horizon compositions -:)

  • Then I suppose, Forcroci, you don't know what music truly is. You can not compare a composer over another because they are good in their ways. And as for Vivaldi's repertoires, however, those are the most magnificent works in my very opinion and he is my fav. baroque composer ever. Well, I'd never go and say like Teleman blah blah blah like you do. Music is some kind of taste, like food. And by depreciating Vivaldi's gift means that you could do far better than he ever did. So, don't BE absurd!

  • Еще раз-Вивальди гений!!!

  • Just This is music

    black sabbath vivaldi yeah`!

  • I played this piece with a chamber orchestra and it was so much fun! Its a very musical and easily playable piece of Vivaldi's when you're with the right group of people. It also sounds great to the audience.

  • its so beautiful.

  • i played that concerto with my music school's orchestra,but it was far slower...! : P it is so awesome though..! i love the solo at 1.57-2.06 that's my favorite part

  • i played it slower too. for me its a bit too fast, its like they are hurrying :$

  • i have to do this for my GCSE practical exam as a duet, my version is slower and slightly different though. i like this song

  • Love the 1:57-2:05 part...

  • For sure

  • Vivaldi was wonderful... GREAT

  • Awesome i love this concerto

  • this is sooo amazing

    i was wondering if someone could tell me where i could possibly get this on itunes?

  • iTunes seems to have many versions of this listed under Vivaldi RV 565

  • I think Vivaldi is my favorite baroque composer.

  • I agree... I think Vivaldi is the best, then I can't decide between Bach and Telemann.. I think I'd go with Telemann over Bach, but I do like Bach's organ pieces alot... Vivaldi has a lot of emotion in his music, which is what makes it so good.

  • Exactly! Some baroque is just too mechanical for my taste. But Vivaldi is amazing.

  • Telemann's works for strings are amazing, but Nobody can compete with Bach's organ pieces as well as his string concertos :)

  • Whoever decided that music was a competition?

  • i didnt say it was, just making a statement

  • I see no reason for a clash personally.

  • Vivaldi and telemann over Bach ? did you listen the art of fugue, the goldberg variations, musical offering. the cello suites, the violin partitas ?

    as a cellist, i know i will spend an very important part of my life playing the bach cello suite. i don't think any other piece from any other composer you would spend and entire life working on it. why ? the profundness is such that the work seems never done... famous cellist never recorded until maturity

  • great piece; wonderfully played!

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  • At 0:24 the start of the cello, sublime with the harpischord

  • Having just watched your double cello concerto video I'm not surprised you find this too fast. The first allegro in that concerto was played very very slowly. Totally kills the rythmic drive of the piece and makes it monotonous for the listeners.

  • Thank you very much. The music is wonderful. Love Vivaldi with all my heart. He is absolutely splendid.

  • Could you please upload this video. Thank you.

  • Good one Harmonico. Thanks a lot!

  • I really love playing this one ;-)

    Thanks for sharing it!

  • 0:24 is very nice!!!!

  • Great!

  • Me too, it´s so beautiful, thanks for uploading!

  • I really like the third movement.

  • What is playing the lowest part? a bass?

  • Vivaldi concerto for 2 Violins & CELLO, is the main give-away.

  • I'm talking about the continuo...

  • For the continuo, they have a violone, harpsichord, and theorbo.

  • I love it!, Ich liebe es!, Me encanta!

  • Thank you so much for posting this! I play the violin and this is actually the piece I am trying to learn at this moment.

  • cello part is surprising

  • Thanks for posting! I love this concerto.

  • this is an exellent baroque performance. please tell me who is playing!

  • Please read the description. Thanks!

  • It's interesting how subjective things like emotion are in playing. I personally think that this has lots of emotion. But my neighbor may say otherwise.