Antonio Vivaldi's Opus Four consists of a collection of a dozen concertos for violin, string orchestra, and basso continuo. Owing to some unusual and sometimes daring melodic and harmonic twists it carries the title La Stravaganza (The Extravaganza). The solo music includes a lot of melodic cantabile flights and also a lot of figural passagework that often rises to a virtuosic level. This concerto's opening Allegro starts with a happy tutti passage that doesn't seem to know or care where it's going. The first solo outing proceeds over discreet tutti punctuations, the second features figural passagework over the basso continuo, and the third initially proceeds over the continuo before moving on to some sequential passagework over discreet tutti chords. The ensemble frequently breaks in to the soloist's fourth solo outing. In the subsequent Largo a brief siciliano for the ensemble frames an intricate and lazily lyrical solo cantilena that the ensemble's violins and violas discreetly accompany. The concluding Allegro assai features many unexpected turns of melody, rhythm, harmony, and mode. Its opening tutti features a bright and rhythmically driven idea, a lyrical glide, and some intriguing hemiolas. The solo violin enters as if in mid-phrase in several of its four solo outings which mostly feature figural passagework.

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