26 APRIL 1856, Page 11

The New Philharmonic Society's second concert, on Wednesday even- ing,

was good and successful. Agreeably to their plan of giving as much novelty as possible, they produced a new symphony by M. Gounod, the young Parisian composer whose sacred pieces performed at Mr. Ilullah's concerts, and whose opera, Sappho, brought out unsuccessfully at Covent Garden, are remembered by the musical public. This symphony is the work of an accomplished musician ; but its fault is too close an adherence to a model, even though that model is Beethoven. Another novelty was an overture by Mr. Macfarren, called Hamlet ; a clever work, but one of those unsuccessful attempts so often made by modern composers to make a train of musical ideas, suggested to their own minds by some poetical subject, intelligible to others.