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. Two solo violins begin this concerto's opening Allegro with a passage that extensively explores its tonic triad. The ensemble eventually comes in with a straightforward and often sequential idea. The two solo violinists often trade phrases in the solo outings, the last of which features some punctuating interjections from the ensemble before the final tutti brings the movement to a close. A single soloist presents a pensive cantilena over a walking continuo accompaniment in the subsequent Largo, and the concluding Allegro assai features a straightforwardly happy ritornello and solo passages (for one violin only) that further its jaunting feel and joyous tone.

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