INTRODUCTION and RONDO on ‘Ah! quand il gêle sans se laisser,’ chorus in ONSLOW’s opera, Le Colporteur, composed by F. KULAU, Op. 98. (Hill.)

WE cannot any that any great exertion appears to have been made by M. Kulau either in the choice or arrangement of this chorus, but it has an advantage, and not a trifling one, namely, that it enables two moderate performers to make a considerable display without the cost of much previous practice, and at the expense of but little exertion. This is in E minor, but ends in the major key. It has an introduction, which, though there is an air of pretence in it, is heavy, and signifies nothing.

  1. TRE DUETTINI, ridotti per due Flauti e Piano-Forte, da T. BUCHER. (Cocks and Co.)
  2. PAGANINI’s Three FANTASIAS, arranged and published by the same.

THE duets are ‘Cara pupille,’ and ‘Che cangi sempre,’ of Blangini, and ‘Vedi da questi palpiti,’ by Mercadante, arranged as TRIOS, in as easy a manner as possible for all three instruments; and to a numerous class of amateurs they will not be less agreeable because divested of all manner of difficulty, without being rendered insipid.

No. 2 are as brief as the foregoing, but the flute part requires rather more skill in the performer, while the accompaniment is much the same as the other. As to the airs, they are without any distinguishing character; and why such trifling compositions, so short—only two pages each—so scanty in subjects, and consequently so destitute of those flights of imagination which the term fantasia implies, should have received such a title, we are at a loss to guess.

ANCIENT CONCERTS.

ELEVENTH CONCERT,
Under the Direction of Earl Howe, Wednesday, May 29, 1833.

ACT I.

National anthem, ‘Lord of Heaven.’
Song, ‘Rejoice, O Judah.’ Chorus, ‘Hallelujah.’ (Judas Maccabeus.) HANDEL.
Glee, ‘A generous friendship.’ WEBBE.
Recit., ‘Ei parte, senti, ah no!’ Song, ‘Per pietà.’ (Cosi fan Tutte.) MOZART.
Chorus, ‘O Father, whose.’ (Judas Maccabeus.) HANDEL.
Concerto 2nd. (Grand.) HANDEL.
Recit., ‘He was cut off.’ Song, ‘But thou didst not leave.’ (Messiah.) HANDEL.
Chorus, ‘Lift up your heads.’ (Messiah.) HANDEL.
Selection from the Creation.
Recit., ‘And God said.’
Recit. acc., ‘In splendour bright.
Chorus, ‘The heavens are telling.’
Trio, ‘The day that is coming.’
Grand chorus, ‘The heavens are telling.’ 		HAYDN.