CLASSICAL CONCERTS.
Fr is only two years ago since Mr. Butnnove and a spirited party of young inteticiaris eonceived the idea of making an experiment on the taste of rhe public, by gi vine performances of that high and refined species of instrumental inueic, hitherto limited to the private circles of dilettanti—the quartet and quintet for stringed instruments. There had long been concerts of this description in Vienna, Paris, and other places on the Continent ; and these our young artists took for their model. The experiment, we need not tell our musical readers, has been quite successful. Mr. Beecatove and his friends found our Lon- don taste better than might have been expected ; and their perform- ances during the two last seasons have done much toward; its further improvement. Their example was immediately followed by Mr. Motu, who established a similar concert with similar success. And Mr. Moscuiters, with a just confidence itt his own ample resources, undertook and acecomplished the still more arduous task of attracting a large share of public attention to a series of performances, wholly by himself, and consisting of the masterpieces of the greatest composers for the pianoforte.
BLAGROVE is at present reaping a plentiful harvest of laurels on the Continent, and creating a reputation for the English school of the violin among the fastidious musical circles of Germany. His series of classical concerts, therefore, has not been announced this season ; but Mom and LINDLEY have resumed theirs. They gave an udieirable concert on Wednesday evening, in Willis's large room, which was crowded to the door; and the excellence of the selection, as well as the care and spirit of the performences, show that the absence of rivalry has produced no diminution of effort.
Aloscitel.ES gave his first" Soiree of Classical Pianoforte Music" on Saturday evening, in the Ilanover Square Rooms; and bad all audience comprising many of the most distinguished amateurs of both sexes. His object was to exhibit the progressive development of the powers of the pianoforte, from the time when it began to supersede the harpsichord to the present day; and this he did by a selection (made with consummate judgment with a view to effect as well as instruction) from the works of the great masters of the instrument, from SCARLATT/ to THAL- BERG and himself. Of his own compositions, with characteristic mo- desty, he was very sparing, merely giving a brief extract from one of his receetly published Studies. .A most interesting part of the per- formance consisted of the selection from the works of SEBASTIAN BACH and his fire sons ; all of whom, with remarkable diversity in indi- vidual genius, were distinguished and worthy disciples of their father's school. In the delivery of this practical musical lecture, as it may be
1.1loseureets displayed a grasp of' his subject, and a power of illustrating it, of which, we are convinced, no other professor in Eu- rope would have been capable.
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