FOURTH PHILHARMONIC CONCERT.
The Philharmonic concert of Monday was good for the audience, but afforded few morsels for the critics. There is nothing, now-a-days, to be said about Haydn's Symphony Letter T, Beethoven's Eighth Symphony in F, Mendelssohn's Pianoforte Concerto in D minor executed (as it had been oftener than once before) by Mrs. Anderson, or the Overture to Eu- ryanthe,—the pieces of which the concert chiefly consisted. The only other instrumental pieces were a violin concerto of Mayseder, played by Mr. Blagrove with his usual pure and silvery tone, perfect intonation, and clear and facile execution, but also, we regret to add, with his usual lack of fire; and an opera overture by Liudpaintner, more remarkable for noise than beauty. The vocalists were Miss Bassano, and Mademoiselle Treffz, a young performer from the opera of Vienna. Miss Bassani) sang the fine but too familiar air of Gluck, " Che farb senza Euridice," with simplicity and good taste. Mademoiselle Treffz gave Mozart's "Vol che sapete " with German words, and a pretty " Mailied " or May-song of Meyerbeer, in the same language. She is young and handsome; her voice is powerful, sweet, and full of freshness; and her style is that of the German dramatic school, —sparing of ornament, strongly marked, and energetic, but somewhat de- ficient in that flowing smoothness which seems peculiar to the Italians- She is said to be a fine actress, and to have been a fellow performer with Jenny Lind in Germany.
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