Atsuko Seta Piano Recital

Goethe Institut Auditorium. Bangkok, Thailand. September 5, 2012. Hampered by the rain, Japanese pianist Atsuko Seta, who is now resident in Chiang Mai, where she teaches at Payap University, attracted an audience of only 15 listeners to her Bangkok recital. Still, to her credit, she played as if to a full house. Her program consisted of mostly well-known works by Beethoven, Liszt and Chopin, but as her last number, she performed Alberto Ginastera's Sonata para Piano No. 1, Op. 22, very likely a first-time performance in Bangkok. I liked the Ginastera enough to want to hear it again, so I will look for it on iTunes and download it onto my iPod.