THE TASCA CONCERTS.

Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1468, 30 October 1878, Page 3

THE TASCA CONCERTS.

Madame Carlotta Tasca gave her second grand recital of pianoforte music in the Oddfellows' Hall, last night. The' grogramm'e of Monday evening was repeated, and ah opportunity was again afforded the ioyera of music of listening to the superb placing of one of the most accomplished musicians that hns over visited New Zealand. Whether owing to the rathe? high prices of admission, or possibly to tho near approach of the races and great show of the year, it is a fact that the wrotched ntlendanco was anything but creditable to Christchurch as a musical city, or flattering to the artiste who had provided a musical treat as excellent as it is rare. Her rendering of tho various morceaux a", on tho previous evening proved her perfect mastery over the instrument, and exhibited her maryellow skill in interpreting the compositions.

of the great composers. Madame Tasea has literally all the resources of hor art at her fingers' ends, and is equally at home in the execution of the most intricate and brilliant passages, as in the power of expressing to the fullest and amplest extent the delicate light and shades which pervade the more absl ruse compositions of such composers as Beethoven or Mozart. A variation in the programme, the result of an encore, was made by the substitution by Madame Tusca of Chopin's Valse Brilliant in D flat, which was a triumph of sparkling execution, and was enthusiastically applauded. The vocal portion of the concert by Mdlle. Kosaly Merz again proved this artiste to be the possessor of a very beautiful organ, which cultivation and practice have enabled her to use in the interpretation of ballad music, so as to satisfy the most fastidious. Mr Alfred Plumpton is entitled to warm recognition as an accomplished musician for his services as accompanist. The series of recitals will close on Thursday evening, when a programme selected from the choicest compositions of the great composers will be submitted at reduced prices, and as this will be the last opportunity that Christchurch will have of listening to the performance of one of the most refined and cultivated artistes that has visited it, a large audience may be reasonably anticipated.