THE WIRELESS ORCHESTRA
Conducted by STANFORD ROBINSON Mrs. NORMAN O'NEILL (Pianoforte)
MOZART'S first Concerto was written while he was still the merest child, and yet the work was so difficult that no one in the family's circle of acquaintance could be found to play it.
Without counting that precocious effort, there are some forty-five Concertos from his hand, most of them for pianoforte. This one in A opens with a ' Tutti' in which both the principal themes of the movement are announced.
A plaintive Andante in six-eight time follows the first Allegro. This movement is one of the most pleasing of Mozart's slow movements.
The joyous mood of the ' Presto' in Rondo form, is an admirable contrast to the pensive melancholy of the second movement.
The Cadenza to be played on this occasion is by Reinecke.