The Dixit Dominus RV 595 shares a key and some further characteristics with the better-known setting of the same psalm, RV 594, but differs from it markedly: first, in being scored for an undivided ensemble (i.e., not ''in due cori''): second, in belonging to Vivaldi’s first period of sacred music composition, around 1715, rather than to a later period. There are stylistic parallels, too, with Vivaldi’s two Gloria settings, RV 588 and RV 589. Three of the eleven movements making up RV 595 use bo