The musicologist Michael Talbot noted the concerto's 'highly charged emotional content' showing right at the beginning, and read 'an almost autobiographical sadness' in the slow movement.

The movement contains a fugal section begun by the second cello.

The final movement, Allegro, begins with 'catchy offbeat syncopations' in the orchestra, before the soloists enter for 'musical acrobatics'. In the second movement, marked Adagio, the two soloists and the continuo cellist form a trio, for even greater low-range sonority. The two cellos imitate each other at a distance of one bar they then play for the rest of the movement at an interval of a third, and play eight bars of figuration over the continuo's G minor harmony.' The most striking aspect of the first movement (Allegro) is the wholly individual organizational approach that Vivaldi took in the opening. Karl Heller noted that 'the dark color of the two deep-toned instruments perfectly matches the serious expression, which is devoid of all virtuosity'. Both soloists are equals, first competing without upper strings. The first movement begins not with the usual instrumental ritornello, but with the two soloists alone, imitating each other in fast succession, with virtuoso passages.

The concerto is structured in three movements: A manuscript was found in the Renzo Giordano Collection at the National Library in Turin, which holds much of Vivaldi's personal collection. Vivaldi composed it possibly in the 1720s in Venice. Among these cello concertos, RV 531 is the only one for two cellos.

He composed 27 concertos for cello, string orchestra and basso continuo. Vivaldi used the cello as a solo instrument in several compositions, which was a new trend during the period. It is Vivaldi's only concerto for two cellos, and begins unusually with an entry of the solo instruments alone. Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Cellos in G minor, RV 531 is a concerto for two cellos, string orchestra and basso continuo in three movements, believed to have been composed in the 1720s.

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