Goethe-Institut
Auditorium. Bangkok, Thailand. August 8, 2013. If anyone thinks that a recital with good
music has to be an uber-serious affair (you just read my only German), they
should h
ave attended the musical pastiche presented at the Goethe-Institut by
three very talented and attractive Thai musicians, which they subtitled “From
the the French and German.” All three are
studying at various advanced music schools in Switzerland, hence the German and
French. Thank goodness for summer
vacations, which bring them and others back to Thailand to show us remaining here,
once again, just how good budding Thai musicians are.
With important help from Mendelssohn, Debussy and several
other renowned German and French composers, Krit Niramittham (piano), Siwat
Chuencharoen (piano), and Sivipa Propiriya (soprano), fashioned an evening of
solid performances of serious works, replete with commentary, staging,
lighting, acting, props and poetry. It
was totally their creation and, as they say on Broadway--“it worked.” These very attractive and accomplished
musicians, through both their beautiful playing and their inventiveness,
created an evening so full of pleasure that it would have been hard for even a
Horowitz or a Maria Callas to warm their audiences as did Krit, Siwat and
Sivipa. I hope they do something along
similar lines next year; by then I’ll be more than ready to smile again.
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Thai pianist Siwat Chuencharoen (left) with his noted
teacher and pianist Jun Komatsu (right) |
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Thai pianist Krit Niramittham |
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Soprano Sivipa Propiriya (It never hurts in music
performance to be beautiful) |
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This delightful pastiche made use of props to good effect
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