The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-29 00:00:00

MADAME LLYD GOLDSCHNIDT'S
CONGER ?'S.

(From the Freeman's Journal of Sept. 27.)
As might have been expected, an overflowing
audience, crowding to the utmost every compart-
ment assigned to the public of the large hall of the
Ancient Concerts, assembled last evening to wel-
come once more to Dublin the widely-celebrated
and well-remembered " Jenny Lind"—for by that
still-honoured name Madame Goldschmidt is still
known and spoken of by thousands who cannot
forget those glorious nights of her first engage-
ment on the Dublin stage, where she evinced her
wondrous power and matchless brilliancy of voice,
combined with exquisite musical taste, and dis-
played a versatility of genius, equally at home in
every department of her glorious art, and equally
successful in every phase of the lyric drama,
whether she drew unbidden tears from eyes,
" albeit unused to the melting mood," by her
plaintive melody and painfully truthful persona-
nation of "The Bride of Lammermoor." or intoxi-
cated her audience by the double spell of sparkling
music and graceful comedy in her celebrated charac-
ter of La Figlio del Reggimento. It was as " Jenny
Lind" that this great vocalist and accomplished
musician has achieved her most brilliant triumphs,
and that name must for many reasons be still dear
to her—no matter how honoured and respected may
be the name she now bears amongst the matronage
of England, The audience, as we have said, was
an overflowing one, and comprised in the reserved
seats and body of the hall a vast crowd of fashion-
able and distinguished persons. His Excellency
the Lord Lieutenant arrived shortly before eight
o'clock, accompanied by a party of friends and
attended by some members of his suite. The
concert opened with an instrumental piece
(the Andante from a Sonata of Beethoven,
with variations for the pianoforte and violin)
The performers were Herr Otto Goldschmidt
and llerr Joachim, who on appearing were most
cordially received. It is, of course, unnecessary for
us now to speak of Herr Joachim's style of violin
playing. The performances of this justly celebrated
artist have been heard and appreciated before now
by the musical public. The pianism of Herr Gold-
schmidt is characterised by a certain plainness and
vigour of style, arguing a love in the performer of
the "simply beautiful," despising ornate fripiaery,
but yet displaying a delicacy, yet firmness of touch
inexpressibly pleasing to educated ears, especially
in the rendering of classic music. We need
scarcely add, that this bit of Beethoven's composi-
tion was given in masterly style. At its conclu-
sion all eyes were directed towards the door open-
ing to the platform, for the next piece marked in
the programme was the grand aria from "Il Puritani,"
so justly admired, "Qui la voce," with its delicious
concluding caballetta, to be sung by Mme. L. Gold-
schmidt. The appearance of Madame created quite a
scene. All the vast assemblage seemed to rise and
bend forward, whilst peal after peal of welcome
greeted the fair donna, for fair she is, and (as we
rejoice to see) retains all the winning
of feature and grace of manner which seemed to
harmonise so well-with her sweet voice when we
heard it last on the Dublin stage, eleven longyears
ago. She looks the Jenny Lind of the portraits
still. She wore a quiet yet singularly tasteful
dress of light blue colour, and in all its details her
costume was marked by tasteful simplicity. This
said aria " Qui la voce" is rather a trying piece to
begin with, and, we could not but remark a slight
huskiness, or rather a want of clearness in her
lower notes at the opening, but as she progressed
in the song it was then her glorious voice began to
develop its extraordinary beauty. As we heard
her, years were forgotten, every note seemed
to evoke some sweet memory, and the remem-
brance of past delight flashed upon our mind
with every delicious cadence. Many were there
who now heE rd Madame Lind Goldschmidt's voice
for the first time, and they all seemed to feel im-
pressed with a new and strange feeling of pleasure
such as they had never before experienced in the
vocalism of any artiste, however celebrated, whilst
others, who treasured the recollection of her glo-
rious voice in the prime of its power and splendour,
appeared to recognise with delight the repetition
of sounds of thrilling melody which they had not
dreamed of ever hearing again. The fair donna's
version of the cabaletta " Vien in cielo" was truly
splendid, and rapturous applause followed, and
an encore asked for, but owing to the length and
variety of the programme, it was not practic-
able. Madame's next performance was a rondo,
"Il re Pastore," from Mozart, with its singularly
beautiful accompaniment, rendered on the vio-
lin by Herr Joachim, and by Herr Gold-
schmidt on the pianoforte. This divine compostion,
both as regarded vocalism and instrumentalism,
may be said to have been all but perfect. In the
duetto "I Mon tanari," comprising a series of
Styrian melodies, which concluded the first part of
the con cert,Madame Goldschmidt and Signor'Belletti
were heard in brilliant perfection as regarded exc.
cution. This piece seemed to partake more of the
characteristics calculated to astonish rather than to
please. The vocalism of the donna in the course of
it was displayed in all its vigour and brilliancy, and
she seemed to overcome difficulties which she over-
came with wondrous taste and power. In the
second part of the concert *the song which, per-
haps, excited the greatest expectation was Moore's
pretty and fanciful poetic jeu d'esprit, entitled
" Nets and Cages." The music is the composi-
tion of Herr Goldschmidt. It is light, grace-
ful, and well suited to the spirit of the
words. It was sung con amore by Madame—
who enunciates the English with great correctness,
and fluency. The concluding efforts of the fair can-
tatrice were Mendelssohn's sweet song, entitled
"The first violet," and the Echo Song, a Norwe-
gian melody. Both were given with charming
grace and simplicity of style and brilliancy of har-
monic effect. To speak of the plaudits which fol-
lowed this and the other pieces which Madame sang
during the evening would be only to record a suc-
cession of storms of approbation, and perhaps
throughout the entire musical career of the great
soprano has she ever won higher or more distin-
guished. praise than that which was awarded to her
last night by an audience in every way competent to
appreciate the gifts of genius. The selection from
"Il Barbiere" given by Sig. Belletti reminded us
of the many obligations we are under to this
gifted artiste for the intense gratification
we have more than once derived from his
splendid vocalism. His rich baritone voice
is now as true, powerful, and resonant as
-when we first had occasion to speak of its merits,
and never was an encore sought with more enthu-
siasm, or a compliment more deservedly paid than
that which was accorded to the Signor on his re-
peated performance of the " Largo al factotum."
His "Non piu audrai," from " II Nozze de Figaro,"
of Mozart, was given by him in masterly style.
More than twelve mouths since, we spoke at some
length of the splendid character of Herr Joachim's
violin performance, and assigned to him his due
position as a perfect master of this most difficult of
all instruments. We can now but say that his
performance last evening was in every way worthy
of his high reputation. This concert, in all, was a
decided success, and furnishes a sufficient earnest
of the rich treat in store for the lovers of music in
the concert which is announced to take place on
to-morrow afternoon.

THE LOSS OF THE SHIP PRENIEP,

OF BRISTOL.

The following report of the loss of this vessel ap-
pears in the Shipping Gazette :—"Sailed from Li-
verpool on the 12th of May with a cargo of .machi-
nery, eze., for Bombay. Nothing particular
occurred until about the Ist of July, when we ex-
perienced a heavy gale, which veered from N.W. to
S.S.W., with a tremendous cross sea, which caused
the ship to labour and strain exceedingly, being then
in lat. 31 S., long. 23 N. Experienced variable
weather from the 3d to the 9th, with a prodigious
swell from the southward, the ship being very un-
easy, and suffering 'dreadfully under the coun-
ters. On the 10th had a brisk gale, with a
high confused sea. At 4 p.m. discovered that the
ship had sprung a leak. The gale continued with
great violence, and the leak increased very consi-
derably, and we had great difficulty in keeping her
free. Sighted the Island of Tristan da Acunha on
the 11th, rounded the ship to under the lee of the
island, and endeavoured to discover and stop the
leak, but could not succeed. A most terrific gale
now came on from W.N.W., with sudden and N
/0-
. lent squalls, accompanied with whirlwinds ; close-
reefed the mamtopsail and laid the ship on the port
tack,. expecting. a sudden shift from the southward;
the pumps were worked with extraordinary vigour
and great exertion, the water still gaining on us
On the following day were driven by the violence
of the gale and a north-easterly current 45 miles to
leeward, pumps constantly. going. On • the 15th,
finding that the water gained" on us rapidly, and
that the crew were worn out with fatigue, saw that
the boats were ell clear, and at 5 p.m. saw a sail,
which proved to be the Hanoverian brig Airitia,
Arends, from Leer for Melbourne. Showed signals
of distress; the brig then bore down and lay by 'Le
Premier till night. The crew were now quite ex-
hausted from pumping. At abont 11 a.m. Captain
Arends received all hands on board the Anusia, and
bore away for Simon's Bay, distant 1,000 miles, this
being the nearest port. A short time after the
crew got on bord the brig the Premier was.seen to
founder. Arrived at Simon's Bay on the 31st of
July. Captain Stroud, en behalf of himself and
crew, returns his f.ip cero thanks to the captain and
officers of the Amisia_ for their kindness and atten-
tion while on board." •