Sentence examples for opened this recital from inspiring English sources

Mr. MacDermot's Fugue opened this recital.

But what was most striking about the account of Schumann's "Kinderszenen" that opened this recital was the delicacy and introversion of his playing.

His virtuosic and beautifully poised performance of the 12-minute work opened this recital, part of the current City of Light series.

She opens this recital with a specialty, Schubert's C minor Sonata (D. 958), then moves toward Schumann's "Symphonic Études" by way of Bach and Gyorgy Kurtag.

It is hard to out-elegant Fauré, whose songs opened the recital, but Taneyev comes close in the quietly longing melody of "People Sleep".

Mr. Denk opened the recital with a demonically festive rendition of Bartok's Piano Sonata, with chattering dance rhythms and low notes that rang like gongs.

The closest Mr. Feldbau got was the soulful piano part of Franck's Sonata in A (1886), which opened the recital.

Baroque opera revivals have brought Alessandro's name back into public view, and, on the basis of the three arias that opened the recital, with good reason.

Opening the recital, the song was about nervous anticipation; by the end, it had transformed into wistful resignation.

The seven songs from Schubert's 'Die Schone Mullerin', with which he opened his recital with pianist David Owen Norris, made an oddly uneasy start.

There was the free fantasia, like the one that begins the famous Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D Minor, the work with which Mr. Brookshire opened his recital.