PIANO-FORTE AND HARP.
GRAND DUET for Piano-forte and Harp, or two Piano-fortes, by F. KALKBRENNER and F. DIZI. Op. 82. (Chappell.)
THIS, if we mistake not, was written for and performed at the Philharmonic Concerts some years ago. It is in four movements, the first an adagio in F minor, opening into an allegro maestoso in the major key; the third is Mozart’s air, ‘Deh! perdona,’ in A; and the last, an allegretto in F. We can here trace the scientific bias (we wish he would more often yield to its influence) of M. Kalkbrenner, and that delicacy of taste which is M. Dizi’s characteristic; each has had his share in producing a spirited, elegant, and effective work, in which there is no want of that grand essential in music, air, nor any deficiency of that without which melody soon becomes insipid, harmony. It is moderate in length, and displays none of those wanton, stupid difficulties of execution which the works of some of our modern German composers are bristled with, but should only be intrusted to good and experienced players.