Great Piano Quartets and Quintet

Goethe Institut Auditorium. Bangkok, Thailand. September 11, 2012. It is uncommon in Bangkok to have an evening devoted to piano quartets and quintets, and it is encouraging that when it does occur, it is as enjoyable as was Tuesday's performance by faculty members of the College of Music at Mahidol University. The program was perfect, presenting as it did, examples of disparate selections from the literature, which shared a commonality of very listenable music, from the sublime, to the classic and romantic, and, particularly in the Faure, a level of excitement quite uncharacteristic of some of Faure's elegiac compositions, which are nothing, if not dull. I don't know if this group (which lacks a name) plays together regularly, but I hope that it will continue to provide the small Bangkok audience for these events, other opportunities to hear them perform.  
 
Sittichai Pengcharoen ( violin),Juris Madrevich (viola), Juris Lakutis ( cello),
Maris Arents (doublebass) and Eri Nakagawa ( piano).
Program: Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor. K.478 , Faure Piano Quartet in C minor. Op 15, and Schubert Piano Quintet (The Trout), D667.