Media Contact:
Eugene Marlow
718-858-3384
|
|
Pianist Nada News:
Pianist Nada Completes the
Johannes Brahms Piano Solo Works Cycle
|
|
It has taken four years to accomplish:
Pianist Nada has completed recording the entire oeuvre of Johannes Brahms works for solo piano.
|
|
“Johannes Brahms, Part I,” (18 tracks) includes: “Chorales Nos. 5, 9,10,” “Theme and 14 Variations on a theme by Paganini, Book I,” six “Klavierstucke,” and four of Brahms “Hungarian Dances,” among other of his compositions for solo piano.
|
|
Part II (six tracks) includes two “Hungarian Dances,” “Chorale No. 6,” “Theme and 14 Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Book II,” “Etude No. 4 After ‘Presto’ by J.S. Bach,” and “Theme, 25 Variations, and Fugue on a theme by G.F. Handel.”
|
|
Part III (12 tracks) includes “Seven Fantasiens, Op. 116,” “Sonata No. 3 in F minor,” and “Chorale No. 11.”
|
|
A triple-CD physical album (combining Parts I, II, and III) will be available in October.
These three albums bring to eight the number of CDs Pianist Nada has recorded of Brahms’ works for solo piano. The others include:
Pianist Nada reflects on her accomplishment:
“The music of Brahms can sound very complicated at first. However, everyone agrees right away on its sumptuous beauty and striking power. The beauty comes not only from how well-crafted this music is, but also because of his unique gift to tap into gorgeous concepts and tremendous inspiration. He developed his compositional technique to such perfection giving his music an unlimited richness and universal reach. No matter how many times you play or study it, you will always find new things to do or to understand. No matter how many times you listen to it, it still will bring you new insights and deep fulfillment.”
|
|
Pianist Nada’s series of “Brahms” albums have garnered acclaim from International Piano, Fanfare, and Audiofile Audition, among other publications.
Her albums have been heard domestically and internationally on dozens of classical music-oriented radio stations.
She records on the MEII Enterprises Label.
|
|
A United States citizen of Lebanese/Hungarian descent, with a French education, Pianist Nada is a world-class concert pianist with decades of accomplishment.
Growing up during the Lebanese civil war, Nada immersed herself in mainly self-study of music and piano. By the mid-1980s her dedication took her to the Paris Conservatory where she was the first woman from the Middle-East to take first prize.
Since then she has performed internationally with symphony orchestras, chamber ensembles, and as a soloist, in Austria, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, and Serbia, as well as in many parts of the United States.
A critically-acclaimed recording artist with seven albums to her credit, she is also an educator and a musicologist. Her article on “Brahmsian Piano Technique” appears in the July 2019 issue of International Piano.
Pianist Nada records on the MEII Enterprises label. Her recordings are available for purchase through Nada’s website, www.pianistnada.com, other digital music web sites including Amazon and Spotify.
|
|
MEII Enterprises is a music and media company specializing in jazz, Latin jazz, Brazilian, world and classical music. Its catalog of albums can be found at MEIIEnterprises.com.
|
|
|
|