The Sun.
London, England, 1828-10-03 00:00:00

again were completely successful in their " gentle
airs." Lindley's " melodious strains" are too well
known and appreciated to require comment. " 0
Lord, call to remembrance," an elegant quartette in
E four sharps, minuet time, was exceedingly delight-
ful, and again obliges us to revert to the obligations
we owe to the compiler of Judah ; it was exqui-
sitely given by Miss Stevens, Messrs. Knyvett,
Vaughan, and H. Phillips. " Tune your Harps,"
by Madame Caradori, put our fears and our suspi-
cions together completely to the rout ; she never
seemed to be in; better voice. Your " bang-up"
vocalists
theythi labour thick tulrte undery never appear so interesting as
% a cold ; and we all must be
when
sensible how suddenly we are liable to come under
its withering effects. A noble chorus, with an ela-
borately worked fugue, by Mozart, to English
words, " How excellent is thy Majesty, 0 God
presented another fine example of his majestic mid
fertile mind. The crescendos were well managed,
and, but for the disagreeable and " untoward" noise
of a " full organ," when it should have been kept
under, would have ended without a blemish---it
almost made one deplore that such an instrument
was in the church. The passage in unison, and
syncopated by the entire orchestra, vocal and instru-
mental, is superbly grand, and nobly inspiring to a
degree surpassing description. Madame Catalani pr
petrated another wretched bravura, and, " Mirabilc
dicta," to the words "Benediehts qui venil ii no,
mine Domini." If this be not sacrilege, or sCito
a-kin to breaking the Third Commandment!
musically, then we have yet 'somewhat to learn.—
A Bravura in a Church is always instafferable ; but
coupled to so solemn a Benediction, it becomes (ot
ought to do so) a mark for the finger of scorn to
wag her dirty finger at ! Our complacency was in
some degree restored by Beethoven's :splendid
Chorus, again selected from " Judah" (Gardiner),
" Glory to God! Glorify him in the highest
which contains some very remarkable effects, no
less than the violation of the rules regarding " con-
secutive fifths," viz. from the chord C to B flat ‘i
again, from the chord F to E fiat ; and yet, in the
hands of the gigantic Beethoven, they are rendered
magically effective. This was one of the moat per-
fect exhibitions of the day. The second part con-
sisted of a judicious selection front Haydn's "Crea-
tion," which was admirably performed by the in.
strumentalists. Madame Stockhausen took the
aria, " With verdure clad," and excited the feelings
of her delighted auditory in a very remarkable man-
ner. Caradori has indeed a formidable competitor

in this delicious composition. Phillips, in It part
of Raphael's music, again distinguished himself ;
and graham might have been perfection itt the
music of Uriel, but for his accursed cadenzas—,

fah ! Haydn—even the mild, the gentle Haydn,
would have been enraged, had he listened to the
excursive violence, nay, outrage on common sense,
committed by this incomprehensible mixture of good
and evil, at the passage and words—" The silver
moon, through silent night." Depend on it, Mr.
Braham, the moon never cut such capers, even
when she first emerged from chaos. Haydn's master
chorus, " The Heavens are telling," was given with
splendid effect, and beautiful accuracy. Of the
third part we have not space to extend our notes ;
suffice it to say, that the consecutive arrangement,
as appertaining to musical transition, was by no
means so judgmatical as either of the foregoing
parts. Where individual excellence is so firmly and
consistently established, it becomes a perplexing
task to invent, or to apply, new terms of admiration ;
we can only repeat, therefore, that Mrs. W. Kny vett.
lost not an atom of her well-earned fame in the
..charming aria, " What though I trace ;"—that
Miss Paton introduced, to the no small delight of
the listeners, " If guiltless blood ;" which she exe-
cuted with all that sublime regard to the immortil
writer's meaning, which in a very remarkable de-
gree distinguishes all her sacred performances. Miss
Love was also eminently successful in the fine contra
alto song, "Return, Oh God of Hosts !" and ful-
-1 nished us with proof (if any were requisite) how infi-
nitely superior such songs become, with a female voice.
Braham, in " Total eclipse," made the most ample
atonement, by the chaste, yet sublime manlier, with
which he illustrated the heart-rending distress of the
sightless Sampson—it was, indeed, perfection, in
every possible particular—we trembled at the ca-
dence of the song, but were most happily disap-
pointed, for he did not even attempt a cadenza; fur
which forbearance, we say, much thanks. Since the
days of the justly-renowned Bartleman, nothing
struck us as more deserving of unqualified admiration,
than Phillips's " Rejoice my countrymen ;" the de-
elamatory portion of which is a fine study for any
vocalist whatever; and in the air, " Thus saith the
Lord to Cyrus," nothing could, or ever did, exceed
the grandeur of his ideas. After this came another
indecent bravura ! We need not say by whom it
was screamed. A chorus, " Quoniam to solus,"
said to be by Beethoven (Heaven forbid, say we),
The vulgar song of the " Bright Seraphim" fol-
lowed, and even this " clap-trap" of a song was
exceedingly refreshing after the crude trash and sense-
less noise contained in the chorus alluded to. We
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Mr. Harper's " Uplifted trumpet"
The double cadenza at the close of the aria, which
they foist in, is as execrable taste, and merits the
severest reprehetnbseiocni.ose No:
"double cadenza," which, by the way,
part in a farce, called The Prize, where the eccen-
tric Doctor Lenitive, having to warble a duet with
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contains all that is usually resorted to by our English
vocalitls upon these distressing occasions. When
will they cease to sacrifice sense to sound?
we have a word or two to say to the musical
directors of this splendid festival. Why, we would
desire to learn, are the resident professors of their
city treated with such unbecoming and contumelious
neglect? We observed a veteran in his art, ann
we are sure that we heard a highly-gifted performer
upon the difficult oboe, execute several obligatu
pieces in a high style of excellence, not at present
to be excelled )ty his metropolitan compeers- Yet,
strange to tell, this gentleman's name was not, in
any one instance, affixed to the pieces that are in
use to be so distinguished I whilst the names of
Mackintosh, Harper, Wilman, &c. were studiously
applied to their respective songs. This is not as it
should be, and must, we fear, be deemed a melan-
choly illustration of the old saving, that " a man is not
a prophet in his own country.!" In common justice
to Mr. Hughes, we may aver safely, that we never
remember to have heard the business more accurately
done. The orchestra was charmingly conducted and
led by Mr. F. Cramer, whose fame in this interest-
ing biattsch of his'art is too firmly established to re-
quire more than our sincere gratitude for the delight
which his leading afforded us.

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