DUETS, PIANO-FORTE.

  1. OVERTURE to ROSSINI’s Semiramide, arranged, with Flute, Violin, and Violoncello accompaniments (ad lib.), by W. WATTS. (Chappell.)
  2. Les Jonquilles, DEUX RONDEAUX MIGNONS, composées par C. CZERNY. (Wessel and Co.)
  3. CHORUS OF PEASANTS, with Introductory Movement, from WEBER’s Euryanthe, arranged by GEORGE PERRY. (Blackman.)

THE overture to Semiramide, Rossini’s fine serious opera, is a most effective work in almost any shape, but as a duet, and with the accompaniments now added to the piano-forte part, it leaves nothing to wish, when performed in private rooms, where loud wind instruments are never heard to advantage, and a drum is unendurable. Mr. Watts’s arrangement is full, but not crowded, and he has given more than usual importance to his instrumental parts, which, however, are not difficult, but form highly valuable additions to the composition.

No. 2 are, ‘Papataci,’ the everlastingly-hacked, worn-out trio from L’Italiana in Algeri, and ‘Ah! se a me riede,’ from Elisa e Claudio, both extremely well converted into duets, the second part quite easy, the upper not so much so, but far from difficult, and both moderate in length and agreeable in effect.

No. 3 is a clear arrangement of a chorus very popular in Germany now, and which will be so here two or three years hence.