Scoring: Soli SSA, Coro SATB, 2 Vl, Va, Bc

Antonio Vivaldi made three settings of Psalm 111 (112) “Beatus vir” (“Blessed is the man who fears the Lord”). The two surviving examples could hardly be more different: the large-scale RV 597 (Carus 40.012/00) for double choir and the small but exquisite and effective setting RV 598. The latter, composed by Vivaldi for his female pupils at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, is of moderate difficulty.

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