The St. James's Magazine And United Empire Review, volume 36
The St. James's Magazine And United Empire Review, volume 36
S C Hall
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Every available spot was occupied, even to the orchestra galleries. Such an immense concourse of eager listeners breathlessly drawing in every note must have flattered the Italian maestro, and dispelled from his mind, if it ever found a place there, the often-quoted notion that the English are not a musical people. It is difficult to say how far this success was merited. It rested, perhaps, in the marvellously perfect rendering of the quartets and soli ; in the presence of the composer himself;... and above all in the exquisite singing of Madame Waldman and Madame Stoltz. Au reste, the music was too dramatic for so solemn a subject as a Requiem. Some of the passages indeed were painfuliy at variance with the words, remind- ing us far too much of operas from the same hand. The Dies Irce in the chromatic passage forcibly recalled Wagner's overture to Tann- hduser, whilst here and there passages from Rossini's Stabai Mater were ioogle uiymzeu uy "> 448 S/. Jameses Magazine. clearly discernible.
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