At the Philharmonic concert on Monday, the instrumental pieces were,
Beethoven's Eighth Symphony, Haydn's Eighty-first Quartett, Mozart's Pianoforte Concerto in C minor, played by Mr. Lindsay Sloper, and an Overture by Mr. Griesbach. Vr. H. Phillips sang Mozart's ''Possenti Numi," from the Flout° Magico ; and Mr. Benson Spohr's " Yes, lovely Kunegunda," from Faust. The second part of the concert consisted of Mendelssohn's First Walpurgis Night. Mr. Lindsay Sloper appeared for the second time before a Philharmonic audience, and did himself great credit by his clear execution and smooth cantabile style, but he played with more dolisacy than strength, and like a person accustomed to the chamber more than the concert-room. There were good points in Mr. Griesbach's overture, but it was deficient in in- vention, and altogether too crude for a Philharmonic concert. Mendels- sohn's Walpurgis Night, if introduced at all, ought to have be instead of ended the concert : half of the audience did not sit it out. A chorus of eighty voices along with the orchestra is too much for the Hanover • Square room. This piece requires a locality like Exeter Hall ; where it has been repeatedly performed at Mr. Hullah's concerts, in an admirable manner and with immense effect. The new St. Martin's Hall, too, is a place where it may, and no doubt will, be heard to the greatest advantage. The Philharmonic Society ought never to attempt choral music—it is quite out of their way.
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