THE CLAUS-REKEL CONCERTS.

Evening Star, Issue 3433, 21 February 1874, Page 2

THE CLAUS-REKEL CONCERTS.

The enthusiasm with which Miss Claus is nightly received is an acknowledgment of her great talent; but it would be a greater compliment to the artist, and ihqre to the credit of the community, if tha-audiences were larger. Three concerts have how been given, but on no night has the attendance been commensurate with the entertainment Last evening, Miss Claus performed a tarantelle by Dancla, Rebber’s “Berceuse,” or cradle song, and a fantasia on airs from “ haunt,” by Vieuxtemps, and in each achieved fresh triumphs. In the tarantelle we had brilliant execution; in the Berceuse, charming effect; and a climax in the Faust selections. In thp Berceuse, a dreamy and very taking melody, the ■ ‘ mute” is introduced so admirably that the audience is loth to lose the least of the pianissimo strains of the air ; and in keeping with the song, the listner is slilled (such is thes player’s power) into most profound silence. Loud and long was the applause that followed the termination of the selection; and though Miss Claus bowed her ackhowledgments, the aq.lieiics was only satisfied when she played “The last pose of summer.” The themes introduced ihtp tlpe “ JTaustV fantasia are the flower song, “Le roi ‘ <jty. Thqle,” the duet in the garden scene, and the waltz, and they are most artistically interwoven with other strains fpom the opera. Her elocution of the fantasia created a furore, and in response to the universal demand for au encore she played the plaintive “Terence’s Farewell” with the same feeling that characterised her first performance of it. Miss Kekel, in addition to singing several solos and taking pans in two duets with Signor Oecohi, rendered a taking German song, “ Einem Ktihlem grunda,” very pleasantly. M. Rekel and Mr Anderson’s performance of a duet from “Norma” on two pianos was marked hy brilliant execution, and deservedly applauded- An inviting and attractive programme is for this evening.