Meanwhile, Monday night's modest recital was delightful on its own terms, beginning with Mr. Gunn's alluring performance of the flummoxed Count Almaviva's aria in Act III of Mozart's "Nozze di Figaro," nimbly accompanied by Ms. Gunn.
Intriguing music from some of those largely forgotten figures was programmed this summer at the Bard Music Festival — devoted, of course, to Sibelius — and the Finnish violinist Linda Hedlund played short works by two others at her modest recital on Monday evening in the pleasant auditorium at the Scandinavia House.
Tomorrow he returns to Carnegie Hall, this time in its more modest Weill Recital Hall.
There was a striking contrast between Mr. Ma's concert, for which the stage of Alice Tully was kitted out with flowers and a decorative back wall, for the sake of a "Live From Lincoln Center" broadcast, and the more modest cello recital that Adrian Brendel gave on Tuesday at the 92nd Street Y, with his father, Alfred Brendel, at the keyboard.
The free HD series is meant, in part, to be a substitute, although this summer the company also offered a modest series of voice recitals with piano in parks around the city, including some the Met had never visited in earlier tours.
The French Cultural Center is virtually the only institution that organizes a modest art exhibition or music recital once in a while.
As a classical singer I am, inevitably, making my own modest contribution to the celebrations: singing Mozart arias in a recital in Hamburg, and appearing in a production of Don Giovanni at the Vienna State Opera.
The three-night deal, for instance, includes tickets to a flamenco recital, a classical concert and the opera; prices range from $495 for modest seats and accommodations to $1,995 for a front-row view and luxury hotel such as Alfonso XIII.
John Kamitsuka takes a modest approach to the piano that, depending on what you want from a public piano recital, can be either endearing or frustrating.
(The Met also presents a series of summer recitals in smaller sites in parks around the city, which are pleasant events that attract modest audiences).
Organ recital by Alistair Nelson and Parker Kitterman, program will include the Toccata and Fugue in D minor by J. S. Bach, excerpts from Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and the Sonata in D minor for organ duet by Gustav Merkel.
