Music to relax after campaigning: Vivaldi's concerto for four Violins

Out in Selby West this evening campaigning for Claire Holmes the excellent Conservative candidate in the Selby & Ainsty by-election.

Something nice to relax when I get home - a piece by Vivaldi so good that even Johann Sebastian Bach decided to copy it!


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