recital
noun
a musical entertainment given usually by a single performer or by a performer and one or more accompanists.
recitalist
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a word derived from
recital.
Example Sentences
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Whenever she came back to the United States thereafter, it was almost always as a recitalist — and a very fine one, at that.
From Washington Post ● May 16, 2022
But Anderson had a long international career as a concert recitalist with a voice of astonishing warmth and grandeur that conductor Arturo Toscanini said “one is privileged to hear only once in a 100 years.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 13, 2021
A series of scholarships helped finance her musical training and took her to Europe, where, while singing as a concert recitalist, she won the International Music Competition in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1951.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2015
She also had a highly regarded international career as a recitalist, singing at Town Hall in New York and on other celebrated stages, and was especially renowned as an interpreter of Schubert lieder.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2015
He showed the clarity, the subtle balance of modesty and grandeur, expected in a lieder concert but all too rare on the opera stage, where Mr. Gerhaher, best known as a perceptive recitalist, appears infrequently.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2015
