Hanover Square Rooms, Friday Evening, April 26.
MR. VAUGHAN filled his room completely without any aid from foreign singers; and except a duet from Spohr’s Jessonda—which was not well chosen for Mrs. Bishop and Mr. Horncastle—the music was almost wholly in the native language of the performers. Giovanni Croce’s madrigal, ‘Cynthia!’ was called for a second time, for madrigals are coming into fashion again. Mrs. Bishop sang Hummel’s Offertorium very chastely; and Miss Stephens, in ‘Sweet Bird,’ pleased every admirer of simplicity and pure intonation. Mr. Phillips’s ‘Old English Gentleman’ was received with a universal encore.
MR. MOSCHELES’,
Opera Concert Room, Wednesday Morning, May 1.
M. Moscheles gave the septetto written for the Philharmonic Society, with exceedingly good effect. He also, with M. Mendelssohn, played Weber’s Gipsies’ March with concertante variations, as a duet for two piano-fortes, which excited the most lively interest—these two highly distinguished musicians having each contributed his share of variations, and, in friendly conflict, put forth all their powers in the performance of them. Their cadences were of the most masterly kind, and excited the admiration of a crowded room, in which were most of the connoisseurs in town. Miss Francilla Pixis made her first appearance in London, in a feeble air by Bellini. Her voice is a mezzo soprano, and as she had but recently recovered from an indisposition, her performance is hardly a fair subject for criticism. Mad. Pircher sang an air from Figaro, in German, not in the best manner. Indeed it was injudicious to give it in a translation. But the strength of the concert consisted in the instrumental part; this also included Mendelssohn’s fine poetical overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and a clever extemporaneous performance by M. MOSCHELES.
M. PIO CIANCHETTINI’s AND MAD. CAMPANILE’s,
At Willis’s Rooms, Monday Morning, May 6.
M. Cianchettini produced a new duet for piano-forte and flute, in which he was ably supported by M. Sedlatzek. He also performed Dussek’s fine duet for two piano-fortes, with his sister, Mad. Campanile; likewise an extempore fantasia. Mad. Cinti, Signori Rubini, Donzelli, Zuchelli, &c., rendered their vocal assistance; and M. Mori, M. Puzzi, M. Sedlatzek, and M. Sagrini, on the violin, horn, flute, and guitar, contributed their assistance.
MRS. ANDERSON’s,
Opera Concert Room, Friday Morning, May 10.