Manfredini (1718): Christmas Concerto - Largo, mandolin quartet (Op. 3/12)

Francesco Onofrio Manfredini (1684-1762): Concerto grosso per il santissimo natale, Op. 3, No. 12/2 II. Largo This Christmas Concerto is the best-known piece by the Italian Baroque composer Francesco Manfredini. Although it is scored as a concerto grosso, for the second movement (Largo), the soloists are tacet and the movement is therefore simply scored as a string quartet. I am playing the Largo as a mandolin quartet of two vintage Italian bowlback mandolins, octave mandolin (mandola) and mandocello.