The concerto A concerto is a large-scale composition for an orchestra plus a soloist or a group of soloists. The soloist(s) alternate playing with or alongside the larger ensemble to provide opposition and contrast. Concertos have three movements – fast, slow, fast. The concerto in the Baroque period (roughly 1600-1750) Baroque composers who wrote concertos include Vivaldi (who wrote over 500, around half of them for violin), Bach and Handel. Antonio Lucio Vivaldi There were two types of Baroque concerto - the concerto grosso and the solo concerto.
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violin and twoflutes are prominent at the beginning and are
thenjoined by the ripieno strings. Listen for theharpsichord
playing the continuo.
