THE MUSICAL UNION.
Kellerman's performance in Mozart's Quintet in G minor, led by Sivori, afforded a rich treat to the numerous amateurs of fine violoneellaplaying in classical chamber musics assembled at Willis's Rooms on Tuesday morn- ing; the execution being sensible and tasteful, subservient to the music, free from capricious or affected accents and all exhibitions of tone at the expense of the general effect. Sivori's phrasing and reading of the adagio was one of the completest pieces of impassioned playing ever heard; never was the elevated spirit of this movement more completely conceived. The intermezzo was also charming. But the time of the minuet and the finale was somewhat too hurried. The brilliant Quintet of Onslow in A minor opened the performance welL This very pleasing composition is calculated to give a much more favourable impression of its author than the one se- lected for the last concert. Hewers double-bass playing is also much more effective and tasteful in this kind of music than that of Casolani. A Pianoforte Trio, by Mr. Osborne of Paris, was also performed; but of tlais we could relish neither the composition nor the performance.
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