Kyrie (Vivaldi)

The Kyrie in G minor (RV 587) by Antonio Vivaldi is a setting of the Kyrie for two cori (two orchestras, each with respective four-part chorus) written between 1720-35.

This is the only extant setting of the Kyrie the composer wrote.

The chorus is adorned with descending quavers in the orchestra.

The final movement unites the two cori with a brief grave and enters a fugue.

The fugue would later be reworked for the composer's Concerto Madrigalesco (RV 129).