Notwithstanding counter attractions there was a good "congregation" at the Cathedral on Thursday night (13th) to listen to the excellent programme prepared by Mr. Crompton. Most of the pieces were old friends, and were appreciated accordingly, for with organ music as with classical com: Tearing that one is able to properly value the ditions generally, it is not at the first
many beauties simultaneously presented.
The Senate Pontigicale, the two Andantes of Batiste, and the Funeral March and Hymn of Seraphs come within this category. The effect of the first mentioned was somewhat marred by the persistent ciphering of two of the notes. The enormous technical difficulty of the last piece is something to be appreciated only by an organist, but the charming effect of the delightful hymn must have been felt by all present.
Mr. Macdonald's cello provided an agreeable variety to the programme, and would doubtless have been loudly applauded in another plaice. It would be impossible to speak in tuo high terms of Mr. Fleet's renfering of the Recitative and Cavatina, thou faithful unto death", from Si Paul, Rarely has " finer rendering been heard within the walls of the Cathedral.
The less known pieces in the programme were the Concerto by Handel, and the Fantasia Pastorale by Mendelssohn. Both were capitally played by Mr. Crompton the effect of the "sturm™, however, is not sv marked as that of a similar composition by Lemmens.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.