Alone

This Concerto was written in the autumn of 1782 at Vienna and first published by Artaria & Co. in 1785. Concerning this work and two others composed at about the same time (K. 413, 415), Mozart wrote to his father on December 28, 1782: "These concertos are a happy medium between what is too easy and too difficult; they are very brilliant, pleasing to the ear, and natural, without being vapid. There are passages here and there from which connoisseurs alone can derive satisfaction, but these passages are written in such a way that the less learned cannot fail to be pleased, although without knowing why".
All the cadenzas in the present edition are by Mozart.

Lista utworów:
Conerto No. 12 In A major For The Piano KV 414 (Mozart W. A.)

Of the six tunes which are contrapuntally combined in the composition, four are well - known square dances: "Boston Fancy", "Devil's Dream", "Old Fiddler's Breakdown" and "Old zip Coon". The America square dance in played on the fiddle alone, ocassionally accompanied by either guitar or banjo. Its type of fast, even figuration is conceived by the players' fingers, analogous to the way in which fiddle patterns dominate the gypse scardas or the Norwegian halling. The term square dance (Virginia reel) is now applied generally even to "round" folk dances, all of them originally Irish or Scottish reels before they were imported to America.

Lista utworów:
Boston Fancy (Dahl Ingolf)
Deep Blue Sea (Dahl Ingolf)
The Devil's Dream (Dahl Ingolf)
Old Fiddler's Breakdown (Dahl Ingolf)
California joe (Dahl Ingolf)
Old Zip Coon (or Turkey in the Straw) (Dahl Ingolf)

Stepping Stones was made possible by a grant from Meet the Composer's Composer / Choreographer Project, a national program funded by the Ford Foundation and the pew Charitable Trusts. Stepping Stones was premiered on April 1, 1993 by the Milwaukee Ballet, Kathryn Posin, choreographer, with the Milwaukee Ballet orchestra conducted by Daniel Forlano, at the Performing Arts Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Duration: ca. 20 minutes.

Lista utworów:
I. Introductions (Tower Joan)
II. Meeting (Tower Joan)
III. Alone (Tower Joan)
IV. Interlude (Tower Joan)
V. Love and Celebration (Tower Joan)