"brief recapitulation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
For example, you could use it when describing a summary of an event or text: "This article provides a brief recapitulation of the key points discussed."
He then treated the crowd to a brief recapitulation of his old stump speech, followed by the tribute to Mr. Gore, whom he praised as a member of the Democratic Party.
A brief recapitulation of the RBF calculation is in order, so as to explain the mechanism of developing a leave-one-out error measurement below.
This paper is organized as follows: In Section 2 we review previous work in this area, and in Section 3 we provide a brief recapitulation of the PTM method.
This brief recapitulation of the origins of molecular biology reflects themes addressed by philosophers, such as reduction (see Section 3.1), the concept of the gene (see Section 2.3), and experimentation (see Section 3.4).
After a brief recapitulation of the inverse problem of determining the elastic wave from the transducer, there is a brief discussion on BIE analysis for estimating the scattered wave from the defect.
Our hospital facilitates both early ICU follow-up, including brief recapitulation of the ICU stay and giving patients an ICU diary, procedures that may potentially affect the prevalence of later adverse psychological outcome.
In its final bars, brief recapitulations of melodies from the previous movements are heard.
Haeckel saw "Ontogeny as the brief and rapid recapitulation of phylogeny" and saw each individual's development as following the sequence of, and indeed caused by, the evolutionary history of that individual organism's species.
Most of the overtures are in three sections: a lively introduction, a slow middle section, and a concluding allegro in sonata form, with two subjects, a brief development, a recapitulation and a coda.
There's a churning opening, a series of increasingly desolate solos threaded through the development section, a telescoped recapitulation and a brief, hardly consolatory epilogue.
The Symphony No. 2 (1964) of Wilfred Josephs showed yet another potentially valuable reinterpretation of the fused-movement approach to the sonata: its long first movement serves the function of exposition, three intermediate movements act on one level as development and on another level as a combination of slow movement and scherzo, and a brief finale serves as a kind of recapitulation.
