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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18426, 6 July 1925, Page 7

"You Lave no idea, of how well you play tho violin; if you would do yotirseii jubtice and i>iay with boldness, spirit, and lire vou would be the tirsi violinist in Europe." Thus wrote Mozart's father to his son in IITi, a year alter the great Concerto m A Major was written. Mozart was then but 19. The worK, whicli is r.uiongst the latest of successlui gramophone recordings, waa performed by Jir Arthur Catterall, eolo violin-, and tlie orchestra was conducted by Air Hamilton Hartv, of the famous llalle Orchestra. It was originally written for a 6maJl orchestra of strings, two oboes, and- two horns. It is a truly great work in itself, and imposed s severe task upon the soloist. This goes without saying, as violinists familiar with the work will agree; but tho result achieved is exceptionally fine. Mr Catterall shows that even at so early an age Mozart had very little to learn about tlie resources and capabilities of tho violin when he wrote this Concerto. It lifted him * ar above the summit of his father's ambition, for Mozart the great violinist would have been to us little more than a, name; but to-day, after nearly 250 years, he is or can be heard in his symphonic works in every home possessing a grampophone. It is a cause for congratulation that bo many of Mozart's works are now made available for hearing 1 in the home, for the chances of hearing them in the concert hall are almost nil in New Zealand, and it is only in great musical centres of Europe and America that one can hear them performed on more or less frequent occasions in public.