Yesterday, I wrote here about the cinematic implications of a pair of magnificent, radically different piano recitals (by Christian Zacharias and Beth Levin).
Williams' office has been in touch to say she was not in the audience for Hamlet, and had been at the Barbican that day for a different event, a recital by the pianist Stephen Hough.
But Ms. Upshaw seemed to be aiming at a rather different image at her recital at Zankel Hall on May 12.
May 10 2011 Carnegie Hall's outstanding young-professionals group performs three twentieth-century classics — Copland's Sextet, Stravinsky's Octet, and Steve Reich's "Different Trains" — at Weill Recital Hall.
WHEN Jaime Laredo performs at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday evening, celebrating the 40th anniversary of his debut there, the program will be very different from the violin recital he played as a young man.
And it's so charming that I think, Why don't people know about it?" Bringing across an artiste like Printemps is a little different from doing a recital of Jenny Lind's music, or Jane Bathori's, to name performers who in recent seasons received homages from Barbara Bonney and Dawn Upshaw.
"In my lifetime, I haven't known a pianist who's played a concerto and a recital in different halls on the same night, let alone on both sides of Central Park," said Ms. Limondjian, who has been the Met's in-house impresario since 1969.
"But recitals feel different, not just because you're onstage longer, and alone, but because when you play a concerto, you are a guest.
"I've played it a lot, but I wanted to explore different ways of presenting a recital".
A song recital calls on different resources, involving several composers and several languages, and during the evening's first, German, half one wondered how Ms. Gritton's voice would hold up.
