Piano Works by Poom Prommachart

Various composers

Poom Prommachart

Piano Works

Price: € 19.95
Format: CD
Label: Champs Hill
UPC: 5060212591074
Catnr: CHRCD 104
Release date: 06 October 2017
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Label
Champs Hill

UPC
5060212591074

Catalogue number
CHRCD 104

Release date
06 October 2017

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About the album

The breadth and depth of artistic drives at large in Russia during the dying days of the Romanov dynasty are the focus of this debut album by young Bankok-born pianist Poom Prommachart. The music reflects everything from the die-hard conservatism of Medtner to the introspective mysticism and harmonic daring of late Scriabin. Winner of the second Sussex International Piano Competition and a recent Shigeru Kawai Artist, Poom is regarded as one of the most accomplished Thai pianists today.

Described by a critic as a young Ashkenazy, Poom was a hugely successful student. He received the most prestigious Tagore Gold Medal for his outstanding career and contribution to the RCM, which was presented to him by HRH The Prince of Wales. Liszt dedicated the published score of Variations on a Theme of Bach to Anton Rubenstein the two men met in Paris in 1840. He built the variations on material from the first movement of the same cantata which Bach revisited for the Crucifixus of his B minor Mass, but which yields to Liszts Romantic invention, growing towards a catyclysm out of which rises a chorale.

Poom describes Scriabins Black Mass sonata as a conversation between human and demon, the result of the composers deep immersion in esoteric philosophy and here he explores the minds shadowy side, drawing dark forces into the light of awareness. Medtner is a favourite composer of Pooms, and he enjoys the opportunity to inject spirit and powerful imagination into the piece so appropriate here in music which takes its cue from the song of the water-nymph, or rusalki, whose siren songs lure young men to their deaths by drowning. A series of variations creates a labyrinthine world of elves, gnomes and winged dancers. The transcription of the famous Liebesfreud, Pooms encore on the disc, was the result of another great friendship, that of Rachmaninoff and Kreisler who met in 1918 in New York. The first performance in 1925 was hailed as a great success.

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Poom Prommachart (piano)

A recent Shigeru Kawai Artist, Bangkok-born Poom Prommachart is regarded as one of the most accomplished Thai pianists today. His performances are highly regarded for their lyrical intensity and virtuosity. Poom graduated from the Royal College of Music (RCM), London, where he earned the prestigious International Artist Diploma in 2014 and a Master’s Degree in Performance (Distinction) in 2013, receiving an exceptional high distinction for both solo piano and chamber music. Recently, he was awarded the most prestigious Tagore Gold Medal for his outstanding career and great contribution to the RCM, presented to him by HRH The Prince of Wales in May 2014. He also received his Bachelor of Music (Honours) with Hopkinson Gold Medal and the Sarah Mundlak Memorial Prize...

Poom graduated from the Royal College of Music (RCM), London, where he earned the prestigious International Artist Diploma in 2014 and a Master’s Degree in Performance (Distinction) in 2013, receiving an exceptional high distinction for both solo piano and chamber music. Recently, he was awarded the most prestigious Tagore Gold Medal for his outstanding career and great contribution to the RCM, presented to him by HRH The Prince of Wales in May 2014. He also received his Bachelor of Music (Honours) with Hopkinson Gold Medal and the Sarah Mundlak Memorial Prize for Piano from the RCM for the best fourth year graduation recital in 2011. Other important awards at the RCM have included the John Chisell Schumann Award (2009) and 1st prize in the RCM Concerto Competition where he performed Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.16, with the RCM Symphony Orchestra conducted by Phillip Ellis (2011).

Poom has performed in many world-famous concert halls throughout Europe, Asia and Australia and has also worked with many leading orchestras. At the very young age of 25, he has over 30 concertos in his repertoire. He has already developed an international reputation as an outstanding performer of rare expressive depth, and has been acclaimed by critics who called him ‘a young Ashkenazy’ in Seen and Heard’s UK Concert Review in 2010.

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Franz Liszt

If you would open any biography of Franz Liszt, you would probably mostly read about his disquiet life as a piano virtuoso, his passionate love life, and the return to his catholic roots at the end of his life. Although all of this might be true, it only scratches the surface of his comprehensive musical personality. Liszt was a pianist, conductor, teacher and organiser, but above all he was a composer of a voluminous, capricious body of work. Even though his piano works formed his core business, he gave rise to the symphonic poem, got rid of the organ's stuffy appearance, and reinvigorated the oratorio. Moreover, with his piano transciptions of Bach's organ works and Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, he was an...

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Alexander Scriabin

Alexander Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist. He began playing the piano at the age of five, but received his first lessons only at the age of eleven. He could not play from sight, but studied the score and played the compositions by heart afterwards. He was also a gifted improviser.
During the rest of his live Scriabin made a living as a composer and concert pianist.He established contracts with publishers and also had a patron in his former student Margarita Morozova for some time. In addition, he annually won a money prize in the context of the Glinka-prize for new compositions that was set up by Beljajev.
Scriabin primarily wrote for solo piano and orchestra. His music progressively evolved over the course of his life, although the evolution was very rapid and especially brief when compared to most composers. His earliest piano pieces resemble those of Frédéric Chopin. The works from his middle and late period use very unusual harmonies and textures.
From 1904 till 1910 Scriabin lived in western Europe, primarily in Switzerland, but also in northern Italy, Paris and Brussels. After his return to Russia he found himself in the middle of a circle of admirers who were attracted to his exalted and mystic ideas. During the last years of his life he worked on a grandiose manifestation, a Gesamtkunstwerk, Mysterium, in which all arts and all people would have been united. He left only sketches of the prelude to this piece (L'action préalable) and large amounts of text.

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Fritz Kreisler

Friedrich 'Fritz' Kreisler was an Austrian-born violinist and composer. One of the most noted violin masters of his or any other day, and regarded as one of the greatest violin masters of all time, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing. Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately recognisable as his own. Although it derived in many respects from the Franco-Belgian school, his style is nonetheless reminiscent of the gemütlich (cozy) lifestyle of pre-war Vienna.

Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler was an Austrian-born violinist and composer. One of the most noted violin masters of his or any other day, and regarded as one of the greatest violin masters of all time, he was known for his sweet tone and expressive phrasing.
Like many great violinists of his generation, he produced a characteristic sound which was immediately recognisable as his own. Although it derived in many respects from the Franco-Belgian school, his style is nonetheless reminiscent of the gemütlich (cozy) lifestyle of pre-war Vienna.

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