Among other chamber opportunities later in the week are a pair of matinee recitals.
(Schweitzer) ★ New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes (Friday and Saturday) This annual guitar festival — a week of concerts and master classes by some of the guitar world's stars — ends its 12th season with a pair of inviting recitals.
A pair of powerhouse recitals at Carnegie Hall range over a collection of late sonatas by Haydn, Beethoven (Opp. 109 and 110), and Schubert (including the Sonata in A Major, D. 959).
The Summit Music Festival, branching out from its summer academy concerts to add a pair of autumn recitals at Marymount College in Tarrytown, has Beethoven represented on back-to-back evenings.
Adès returns to Zankel Hall on Nov. 19 to perform a recital of works by Janácek, Stravinsky, and himself, part of a piano season that will also feature a pair of Beethoven recitals by András Schiff in Stern Auditorium on Oct. 21 and Oct. 24 and an appearance by the dazzling Canadian pianist Marc-André Marc-André Hamelin Center's Rose Theatre on Nov. 4.
Yesterday, I wrote here about the cinematic implications of a pair of magnificent, radically different piano recitals (by Christian Zacharias and Beth Levin).
A pair of Russian pianists, Nikolai Lugansky and Vadim Rudenko, gave a recital in the Warsaw Philharmonic Chamber Hall as part of an annual Chopin festival the other evening.
But unquestionably the high point of the recital was the pair of Handel arias — "Cara sposa, amante cara," from "Rinaldo," and "Furibondo spira il vento," from "Partenope" — after intermission.
"I was already playing these kinds of recitals for a few years.
The duo-pianists Millette Alexander and Frank Daykin will perform Bach's final word on counterpoint from a pair of dovetailed concert grands on the stage of Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall at 2 p.m. Saturday.
