Four players -- Alexander Sitkovetsky, Carmit Zori, Frank Huang and Jennifer Koh -- offered widely varying suggestions at recent recitals around Manhattan.
The Marilyn Horne Foundation, dedicated to helping young singers give song recitals around the country, presents a series of recitalists in the intimate salon of the Kosciuszko Foundation.
More than the large events, though, it is the many chamber-music and song recitals around the city that often leave visitors with the most vivid memories.The Lucerne festival (August 15th-September 15th) is held in a new lakeside theatre designed by Jean Nouvel.
He never lost his taste for the stage: Having periodically sung as a tenor in opera productions in Houston and Washington, and having given recitals around the country and in Europe, he joined the cast of the Broadway musical "Grand Hotel" in 1989 and sang a few small tenor roles at the Metropolitan Opera in the early '90s.
Presented as part of the White Light Festival, her program this visit, a staged recital, revolves around her 2006 album of Baroque laments.
(Tommasini) ★ 'Portals' (Saturday) Rather than simply assembling a recital program around the premiere of the new Partita for solo violin by Philip Glass, Tim Fain, an inquisitive and passionate violinist, has created a bona fide event.
Another of Mr. Stoltzman's duo recitals, repeated around the country, is "The American Connection" -- concert-talks with Lukas Foss, the composer, pianist and conductor.
As the carillons in St Rumbold's tower - there are two, with a total of 98 bells - chimed out a recital, I wandered around the Grote Markt and its surrounding streets.
He's now graduated to the Usher Hall for his solo recital, which is built around two of the most technically challenging works in the piano repertoire: Liszt's Grandes Etudes De Paganini and Rachmaninov's first piano sonata.
Formenti has performed avant garde stunts such as 24-hour concerts, and this season is taking his Kurtag's Ghosts around in recital; I will hear it at Duke University next week.
