Vivaldi: Concerto in D Major RV 212 “St. Antonio,“ Alana Youssefian & Voices of Music, with cadenza!

The concluding Allegro from Vivaldi’s Concerto in D Major for solo violin and strings, RV 212. Alana Youssefian, baroque violin, with the award winning Early Music Ensemble Voices of Music. Please subscribe to our channel Live, 4K ultra high definition video from the main stage of the 2018 Berkeley Early Music Festival, performed on original instruments. This extraordinary work was composed circa 1712 and is one of only a handful of concertos that includes Vivaldi’s original, high-voltage cadenzas. For this performance, Voices of Music prepared a new edition of the work from the original manuscripts: the dedication on the Pisandel ms. reads “fatto per la solennità della S. Lingua di St Antonio in Padua.“ This inscription most likely refers to the celebrations held at the basilica of St. Anthony (see Talbot, “The Vivaldi Compendium“). The range of the cadenza extends beyond the fingerboard of the violin, remar