Last year I came across a list of favorite music I’d started compiling years earlier and one of the pieces was a violin concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, one of my favorite classical composers. Unfortunately, the list didn’t show the name of the piece and he wrote over 230 violin concertos. I set about listening to Vivaldi CDs I owned and others from the library. I knew it was the second Andante movement, but none that I listened to quite matched the poignant and moving quality I recalled.<\/p>\n
This afternoon I played an old LP that John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat had made together (Hooker n’ Heat<\/em><\/a>, 1971). Then I noticed that among the records I\u2019d gotten out to play some time ago was a 1980 Musical Heritage Society recording of Vivaldi mandolin concertos. On a hunch I played the last piece on side two and that was it: Concerto a Due Chori in B-Flat Major, P. 368\/F.I. No. 60, \u201cCon Violino Discordato,\u201d strings and B.C [RV 583].<\/p>\n When I looked online for a CD of the piece, I found only a couple of recordings are available. You can listen to it here on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n