LIEDRTAFEL. CONCERT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10414, 17 July 1895, Page 4

LIEDRTAFEL. CONCERT.

The first subscription concert; of the Dunedin Liederfcafel was held in the Choral Hall last evening. The attendance was sufficient to occupy the whole of the accommodation provided, so that it would seem that there has been a corfiia.l response to the invitation offered by the society to the public to become subscribers, and to long as the society in in a position to provide such programmes &b id presented last night it should have no lack of subscribing members. Pait songs by the Liedertafel formed of course the principal feature of the programme^ End though the majority of these were songs .which the members have given at some one orother of their preceding concerts, there were four items rendered by .them for the first time. Iv: regard to all of these there was a very general.feeling of safcinfaction with the performance by the Lk-dcttafel, and, though . the' basses may occasionally have slightly overweighted the teuois, the interpretation of the various items v?ai characterised by a capital appreciation oh the part of the members of the requisites to successful partnsiDgiug. The result must have been gratifying to Me J. Ximson, the hon. conductor, who has now under his control a body of_ well-trained and fairly evenly-balanced voices. One of the most successful part songs of the evening was > new production, "Love reiyneth over alR 3 (Eiea?ser), which is s very pretty waltz song, :and was, notwithstanding that it is somewhat trying, given exceediogly" well and with fiuo effect. Au item which was even more appreciated was "The image of the rose" (Reiohardt), with a folo by Mr J. Carter, this being received with co much favour that a portion of it had to be repeated. "A May song"(Abt), introducing a solo by Mr K. C. Torranee, was snother of. the items which were given for the first time, and it slso was much appreciated ; whils " The long day closes "(Sullivan) was very effectively given. A inock-aerioua " Ode to the Terrestrial Globe* (Bridge) was one of the best-rendered'numbers, acd the other Liedercafel items all had justice done to them. Signora Venosta. scored an [ undoubted vocal triumph in the 6olos foe which I her name appeared on the programme- The | first of these was the "Flower eong" from "Faust. (Gounod), and in it she was beard to immense advantage, the superb rendering whica she gave of the number evoking tbe enthusiasm of the audience, who demanded an encore, with the result that the vocalist substituted "II Bacio " (Arditi). Subsequently SißCore Venosta gave a highly dramatic and effective rendering of Mattel's "For the sake of the past, acd being again twice recalled, ehe gave " Goodbye "as an added number. The other vocal soloists were Mr J. Blenkinsopp and Mr J. F. Marshall. The former, in Balfe's " Good night, beloved," was not so successful as he usually is ; and a severe cold prevented Mr Marshall from dome justice either to himself or to his song, which was " Sunshine above " (Jones). A couple of Dvorak's " Slavonic dances" were effectively played by Messrs Titnson ana Tsyior as a pianoforte duet; and Mr Taylor gave a solo—" La. Campanula " (Paganini-Liszt)-which was received with approbation, Mr Taylor (hon accompanist to- the society) acd Mr Grist played the accompaniments.