RV 589 enjoys well-founded popularity, performed at many sacred events, including Christmas. It has been recorded on almost one hundred CDs, sometimes paired with Bach's Magnificat (BWV 243), Vivaldi's own Magnificat settings (RV 610-611), or Vivaldi's Beatus Vir (RV 597). RV 588, however, has had little success and has only been published in few albums. Attempts to create more attention to RV 588 and other sacred Vivaldi works (most notably by The King's Consort) are underway. As with many other pieces of the Baroque era, RV 589 (and its lesser known companion RV 588) have been performed in historically-informed instrumentation, even with the use of an all-female choir to simulate choral conditions at the "Pietà". There are several different editions, and choirs need to exercise caution when combining different vocal and orchestral editions. RV 589 has also been used in a number of films. The first movement featured in the 1996 Scott Hicks film "Shine" about pianist David Helfgott, as well as in the 2011 film "The Hunter". An adaptation of the second movement was used with profound effect in the final climactic scenes of the 1985 Andrei Konchalovsky film "Runaway Train".