Concerto Del Vivaldi / RV 208 ‘Grosso Mogul’ in D major (Autograph score)

For solo violin, strings and basso continuo I. Allegro (0:00) II. Grave Recitativo (5:41) III. Allegro (8:22) Composed: , not later than 1717 Turin source: Giordano 29 Concordance: 2:52* = Op. 8 no. 11, mvt 1 (second version) *Here the recording follows the non autograph sources and not the Turin manuscript. One of the better-known concertos from the 1710s, when the Vivaldian concerto reached the form that was to be so widely imitated. There are some similarities with the grand concerto RV 212 in D major ‘per la Solennità della S. Lingua di S. Antonio’ (presumably from 1712), down to the two elaborate cadenzas. The slow movement, in the style of an opera recitative, is however unusual in Vivaldi’s concerto production; one other instance is perhaps the Grave of RV 562 (Desden version). ‘Grosso Mogul’ exists in three manuscripts and appears to have been widely circulated shortly after it was composed. It is found 1) in the Turin manuscripts, Vivaldi’s person