23 January 1833

Third Subscription Concert

Leeds: Music Hall

Time: Evening

 

✗Programme

Part I
Symphony		Weber
From Oberon   Scena, ‘O, tis a glorious sight to see’	Mr. Wood	Weber
From The Maid of Judah   Scena, ‘Oh adverse fortune’	Mrs. Wood	Rossini
Violin Fantasia	Mr. Mori	Mayseder
Ballad, ‘We met’	Mrs. Wood	Bayly
Piano Fantasia	Mr. Moscheles
Song, ‘Isabel! lov’d Isabel’	Mr. Wood	Bellini
Overture, Don Mendoza		Romberg
Part II
Overture, Op.101		Hummel
From Mosè in Egitto   Duet, ‘Ah! Se puoi cosi lasciarmi’	Mrs. Wood, Mr. Wood	Rossini
Free Piano Fantasia	Mr. Moscheles
Song, ‘Fear ne’er assail me’	Mrs. Wood	Bishop
Violin and Piano Duet	Messrs. Mori, Moscheles	Rossini
Ballad, ‘The Soldier’s Tear’	Mr. Wood; Piano Accomp.: Mrs. Wood	Lee
Violin Concerto	Mr. Mori
Ballad, ‘Here’s a health fair Scotland’	Mrs. Wood
Finale

Principal Vocalists: Mrs. Wood, Mr. Wood

Principal Instrumentalists: Messrs. Mori, Moscheles

Leader: Mr. Nicolas Mori

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Encore: Ballad, ‘The Soldier’s Tear’—Mr. Wood; Piano Accomp.: Mrs. Wood—Lee

Advertisements

The Leeds Patriot and Yorkshire Advertiser (January 5, 1833): 1.

LEEDS SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT.

THE COMMITTEE have the pleasure to announce to the SUBSCRIBERS and the Public, that they have made arrangements for the THIRD GRAND CONCERT, to be given on WEDNESDAY, the 23d January Instant. The following Performers are already engaged:

Mr. and Mrs. WOOD,

Mr. MORI………………………(Violin),

And Mr. BOCHSA, The celebrated Performer on

The Harp.

Ladies’ and Strangers’ Tickets may be had of the Committee, on Tuesday the 22d, and on the Day of the Concert, from 12 to 2 o’Clock.

G. MATTHEWMAN, Jun. Secretary,

Music-Hall, Leeds, 3rd Jan. 1833.

The Leeds Patriot and Yorkshire Advertiser (January 12, 1833): 1.

LEEDS SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT.

THE COMMITTEE have the pleasure to announce to the SUBSCRIBERS and the Public, that they have made arrangements for the THIRD GRAND CONCERT, to be given on WEDNESDAY, the 23d January Instant. The following Performers are already engaged:

Mr. and Mrs. WOOD,

Mr. MORI………………………(Violin),

And Mr. BOCHSA, The celebrated Performer on

The Harp.

Ladies’ and Strangers’ Tickets may be had of the Committee, on Tuesday the 22d, and on the Day of the Concert, from 12 to 2 o’Clock.

G. MATTHEWMAN, Jun. Secretary,

Music-Hall, Leeds, 3rd Jan. 1833.

The Leeds Intelligencer (January 17, 1833): 1.

LEEDS SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT.—

The Committee have the Pleasure to announce to the Subscribers and the Public, that they have made arrangements for the

THIRD GRAND CONCERT,

To be given on WEDNESDAY, the 23rd January Inst.

The following Performers are already engaged:—

MR. AND MRS. WOOD,

MR. MORI. (Violin),

And MR. BOCHSA,

The celebrated Performer on the Harp.

Ladies’ and Strangers’ Tickets may be had of the Committee, on Tuesday the 22nd, and on the Day of the Concert, from Twelve to Two o’Clock.

G. MATTHEWMAN, Jun. Secretary,

Music-Hall, Leeds, 3rd Jan. 1833

Reviews

The Leeds Intelligencer (January 24, 1833): 2.

LEEDS SUBSCRIPTION CONCERTS.—The Third Grand Concert, for the season, took place last evening, in the Music-Hall, and was fashionably and brilliantly attended, the saloon and gallery having been both filled. The principal attraction of the evening were Mr. and Mrs. Wood, Mr. Mori, and Mr. Moscheles; the orchestra mustered in great force. We subjoin the programme:—

PART FIRST.—Grand Symphony—Weber; Scena, Mr. Wood, “Oh ’tis a glorious sight to see” —Weber; Scena, Mrs. Wood, “Oh adverse fortune”—Rossini—(from the Maid of Judah); Grand Fantasia, Violin, Mr. Mori— Mayseder; Ballad, Mrs. Wood—“We met”—Bayly—(Accompanied on the Harp); Grand Fantasia, (Accompanied) Mr. Moscheles; Song, Mr. Wood—“lsabel! lov’d Isabel!”—Bellini; Overture, “Don Mendoza”—Romberg.

PART SECOND.—Overture Op. 101.— Hummel; Duet—“Ah se puoi,” Mr. and Mrs. Wood—Rossini; Extempore Fantasia, Piano Forte, Mr. Moscheles; Song, Mrs. Wood—“Fear ne’er assail me”—Bishop; Grand Duet, Mr. Mori and Mr. Moscheles, Rossini; Song, Mr. Wood—“The soldier’s tear”—Lee; Concerto, Violin, Mr. Mori; Ballad, Mrs. Wood—“Here’s a health fair Scotland;” Finale.

The committee were under the necessity announcing that Mr. Bochsa “did not fulfil his engagement,” and they did in italics to indicate, we presume, that that professor had taken a liberty which no public performer can venture to repeat very often without injuring himself essentially, however eminent for his talents. We have neither time nor room for a regular criticism. Mr. and Mrs. Wood were both in good voice, and exerted themselves most praise-worthily, though some of the selections were a little stale for a first-rate concert. Mori’s fantasia and concerto received loud applause; and Mr. Moscheles’ grand fantasia and extempore fantasia were equally appreciated and applauded. The judges music came away much delighted.

Leeds Mercury (January 26, 1833): 5.

CONCERT.—The Third Leeds Subscription Concert took place in the Music Hall on Wednesday evening. The saloon was filled to overflowing by a most respectable audience. The public expectation, which had been raised very high as to the excellence of the performances, was not disappointed. Mrs. Wood sang in the same brilliant and exquisitely sweet manner as ever, and Messrs. Mori and Moscheles added to the fame they had previously obtained in their respective departments. Mr. Wood, whom we never heard before, is a fair singer, but, in our opinion, of no great merit. The song he gave best was “The Soldier’s Tear,” in which he was accompanied on the piano by Mrs. W. He was encored in this and another short song—“Isabel, loved Isabel.” The selection of the latter was not the best that might have been made. His voice has not expression enough for tender ditties, and his manner is constrained in them. Mrs. Wood sang in her most powerful style in a scena from Rossini and in parts of the fine Scotch song—“Here’s a health to fair Scotland,” &c. She gave Bayly’s popular ballad—“We met,” in the most exquisite and pathetic tones; and in the others we have mentioned her alternations of brilliant and soft dying notes were admirable. She was loudly applauded. M. Mori and M. Moscheles displayed consummate art in their extempore fantasias, particularly when they introduced the variations on well known airs.  Their efforts also were received with great favour. The band led by M. Mori, who was ably supported by Mr. Cummins and other amateurs, gave the overtures and accompaniments to the songs with great effect. At first, we though the reception of the performances cold, though certainly nothing else in the room could be so called with any regard to truth or propriety. A friend of ours gave us what we are inclined to think the true solution of the apparent apathy, when he observed that the company were so closely packed, there was no room to applaud. In the second part of the performances room seems, however, to have been either made or found, for the general approbation was frequently and loudly expressed. The committee deserve thanks for the excellence of the arrangements.

The Leeds Patriot and Yorkshire Advertiser (January 26, 1833): 3.

LEEDS FOURTH SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT[1].—The managers have more than fulfilled not merely their promises but the expectations of the most sanguine. Mrs. Wood was in as fine voice as we ever knew her, and was ably seconded by Mr. Wood. With a knowledge of the usual leaning, on the part of a miscellaneous auditory to mere vocalism, it is with much pleasure we notice the lively and discriminating interest created by those inimitable artists, Mori and Moscheles. A recurrence of the legitimate beauties of the Violin in the hands of such a man as Mori dissipated at one coup d’archet, the “unreal mockeries” and charistaneries which have lately annoyed us in the tenth rate imitation of the mere faults of the monster Paganini. For purity of tone, neat execution for taste and feeling, Mori has long been highly distinguished; but we shall in future add to his unrivalled qualifications Fun on the Fiddle, for a keener joke we have seldom witnessed than his droll exhibition in a momentary eruption, a la Paganini at the close of a cadence, embracing every real excellence of the instrument. Mr. Moscheles’ performance was worthy of his name, particularly the latter portions; more especially his extemporaneous effusion and Due with Mori, which was deservedly applauded to the very echo. If we might venture a qualifying sentence in such a matter, it would be regretted that Mr. Moscheles had not selected, for his first piece, something more worthy of his name and talents than a mere string of Scots tunes, which however amusing, or (as in the case of Pindar’s Razors) saleable, we cannot but regards as we should the monster bomb of Antwerp employed upon the feathered depredators of a Cherry Orchard. The Symphonies &c. were admirably performed, and we feel much pleasure in the knowledge of Mr. Mori’s very warm eulogium upon the merits of the Orchestra.

[1] The review refers to third subscription concert and not the fourth.

The Morning Post (January 28, 1833): 3.

MORI, MOSCHELES, and Mr. and Mrs. WOOD, exercised their talents most successfully on Wednesday last at a Concert given in Leeds. MORI’S concerto and MOSCHELES’ fantasia and extemporaneous performance were applauded to the echo. BOCHSA had been announced, but did not make his appearance, which has given great umbrage to the subscribers; but it is supposed that his engagements in Scotland prevented him from fulfilling his promise