

The manuscript of this concerto was written partially on the same paper as his chamber version of the Goldfinch Concerto, Il Gardellino, RV 90b. 8-the work from which his best-known set of compositions, The Four Seasons, derives. It was composed some time between mid-17, during which time Vivaldi was working on his Contest Between Harmony and Invention, Op. The Concerto alla rustica, unlike some other of Vivaldi's concertos, did not include a descriptive programme. It was written between mid-17, and is one of the composer's best-known concertos.

The Concerto for Strings in G major, RV 151, commonly referred to as the Concerto alla rustica ( Italian for 'rustic concerto'), is a concerto for orchestra without soloists by Antonio Vivaldi. String orchestra and basso continuo, with two oboes in the finale
