8—the work from which his best-known set of compositions, The Four Seasons, derives.

It is scored for a string orchestra and basso continuo, and includes two oboes in its final movement.

This last movement emphasizes the sharpened fourth degree of the scale (C sharp), therefore using a Lydian mode—a trait common to folk music.

This feature was probably known to Vivaldi thanks to the Polish-style sonatas and concertos of his contemporary Georg Philipp Telemann.

[5] The Concerto alla rustica has been featured in a number of films and TV series, among them: