The principal musical performance of the week has been the
Philhar- monic Society's concert, on Monday. Its most remarkable features were the instrumental solos. The one was Beethoven's pianoforte concerto in G, performed by M. Otto Goldschmidt in a manner which excited the highest admiration, showing him to be one of the most accomplished artiste of the day. The other was a concerto for the violoncello by Haydn, played by Signor Piatti ; who, it seems, picked it up at a book- stall, and no other copy of it is probably extant. It is much simpler than
the violoncello music of the present day ; but its clear and graceful me- lody is characteristicof the author, and Piatti's fine tone and expression gave it an additional charm. The symphonies were Spohr's in D minor, and Mozart's " Jupiter " ; the overtures, Mendelssohn's "Midsummer Night's Dream," and Beethoven's Fidelio." Madame Viardot and Madame Clara Novelle sang Indian scenes of Gluck and Cimarosa. The room, as usual this season, was crowded to the doors.
Jenny Lind is about to leave us—for ever ? "The lastconoerts which will be given by Madame Goldsehmidt in this country" are positively an- nounced. On Wednesday the 11th June, there is to be a miscellaneous concert; on the 26th June, she-will sing in The Creation; • and on the 30th, at another miscellaneous concert, the will make her "last and fare- well appearance." We may add, that she is also to appear at the Phil- harmonic Society's concert on the 23d June, when she will sing the prin- cipal. soprano part in Schumann's cantata, Paradise and the Peri.
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