THALBERG'S CONCERT.
THALBERG has reappeared in London : he gave a concert yesterday to a numerous audience at Willis's Rooms. An announcement of the fact will now suffice; for a player who has been heard in every town in her Majesty's dominions must have made himself too well known to stand in need of newspaper panegyric. Like all performers who have chiefly aimed at exciting the astonishment of their auditors, he must go on in the same course. Every musician desires to hear from such an artist something higher and better than this; but they will wish in vain. THALBERG'S performance of any classical composition for his instru- ment would not be appreciated by the crowd, who assemble not to be delighted but surprised—to marvel how a man with no more than the usual quantum of fingers can play so many notes in a given time. His playing, of course, was all of a kind to satisfy this craving ; and it accomplished its end. The same arpeggio flights were, successively, exhibited on airs from La Sonnambula, Lucia di Lammermoor, and Semiraznide.
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