Sentence examples for recital was given from inspiring English sources

Saturday's recital was given by the Finnish soprano Soile Isokoski.

Demonstrating a talent with the instrument, she performed at her local church, but her concert debut, a classical recital, was given when she was twelve.

Tonight's recital is given by piano duo Boris Berezovsky and Alexander Melnikov with a programme of Brahms, Stravinsky and Lutoslawski.

In May 1951 Menuhin and his sister were entrusted with the first recital to be given in London's new Royal Festival Hall.

Harpsichord fans should head to Montisi for another new set of concerts; from July 18 to 21, evening concerts and midday recitals will be given by students from the local harpsichord academy (www.piccolaaccademia.org; 15 to 25 euros).

The son of a violinist at the Covent Garden Opera, Mantovani showed an early talent for the violin and was giving recitals of classical music by age 16.

LEWISTON, MAINE Russian-born pianist Igor Lovchinsky started playing the piano at 2 years old and was giving recitals for friends and faMAINE Russian-borne was 4. At 10, he won first pianistat the Eastman Young ArtIgor Lovchinskynal Piano Competition and the national Chopin Piano Competition of the Kostartedo Foundation.

In 1933, he auditioned for the great American baritone Lawrence Tibbett, who was giving a recital in Omaha.

It was a windy day, he recalled, and the cellist Zara Nelsova was giving a recital with her pianist husband, Grant Johannesen, in the Spanish Courtyard.

An able, competent and musical singer, he was also earnest; one never forgot that he was giving a Recital, with a capital R. Some of the music itself also had a dated quality, notably Vaughan Williams's "On Wenlock Edge," a 1909 setting of A. E. Housman poems, which exhaled the directness and slightly dusty rural sentiments of its prewar epoch.

By the time he was 12 he was giving organ recitals including an important one in Kingston upon Hull.