Notos Piano Quartet Comes to Bangkok

The Notos Piano Quartet from Germany, included Bangkok on its Asian tour of Hanoi, Ho Chi Ming City, Jakarta, Surabaya, Phnom Penh, Rangun and Dhaka.

Goethe Institut. Bangkok, Thailand. May 21, 2012. Four young, vigorous, excellent musicians from Germany, who are touring Asia as the Notos Quartet, played to a full house at the auditorium of the Goethe-Institut Thailand, performing a program of Mozart (Piano Quartet No. 1), Joacquin Turina (Piano Quartet in A minor) and Brahms (Piano Quartet in G Minor). The Mozart and Turina were beautifully played, but the well-known Brahms quartet was outstanding, clearly a work to which the Notos Quartet was dedicated. Reflecting the young ages of the musicians (I would place them in their middle 20s), the Brahms was powerful, fast and exciting, but sensitive where called for. Simply put, it was beautiful music, the kind of performance that keeps me coming back to musical events in the hope of experiencing wonderful music beautifully played, an expectation only rarely fulfilled.