THE GUILDHALL CONCERT.
THE Concert at Guildhall on Thursday next, for the benefit of the Spanish and Italian Refugees, promises to afford the inhabitants of the metropolis a rare opportunity of hearing Sacred Music per- formed by a band capable of doing it justice. This is the principal feature of the concert. The singing of PISA.RONI, CARADORI, DONZELLI, De BEGNIS, &C. may be heard as often as we please ; and though it is a part of the performance we are far from un- dervaluing, its chief attraction to us, and we will venture to add, to all musicians, will be the magnificent choral effects. A well-se lected band of two hundred performers will realize the sublime efforts of those great masters whose names appear in the scheme ; and without such a band, anything like grandeur is out of the ques- tion. Half-a-dozen voices to a part, cannot give the faintest idea of the intended effect of HANDEL-S choruses. It is scarcely possible to select finer specimens of the finest style of composition, than the first part of this selection embraces. HANDEL, HAYDN, MOZART, BEETHOVEN, and Paismeno, are all put in requisition. The whole thing is of a piece : it is all first-rate—singers, band, selection. We shall not fail to convey to our readers the result of this every way meritorious attempt to give the London public such a musical treat as has not been offered to the present generation.
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