Pianist Nada
A United states citizen of Lebanese/Hungarian descent, with a French education, Pianist Nada is a native of Beirut, Lebanon. Her piano training was hampered by the unrelenting civil war and terrorism which also cost her mother’s life in a mortar explosion in her own home in Beirut. (Pianist’s concert honors mother killed in war, March 25, 2016 The Courier Journal).
Her family escaped to the mountains where Nada was mainly self-taught with a few books of music – the Bach inventions and the Chopin Waltzes and Polonaises. After only seven years of playing the piano, she was admitted to the Paris Conservatory, France, where she became the first woman from the Middle-East to take First Prize.
Several years later, after much concertizing, she came for advanced studies to Banff Center in Canada and to Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, USA.
Since then, she has created a career with tremendous depth and breadth. Her insightful readings and unique approach to the major music repertoire frequently reminds audiences and critics of the legendary pianists Gina Bachauer and Clara Haskil. And more recently, she has been described as “a music personality of this century, such as a Glenn Gould”.
Her repertoire ranges from early music to contemporary, although her most recent focus has been on the piano works of Johannes Brahms. She is one of the very few to have recorded all of Brahms Piano solo works. Her recordings and performances of his music have received excellent reviews, awards, and responses from all over the world.
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Pianist Nada Johannes Brahms — a 36-track triple CD album set — is the fifth album in a series of five by Pianist Nada of Johannes Brahms works for solo piano.
The first and second albums in the series—Nada in Hamburg with Johannes Brahms and Vienna: Brahms & Nada— explore the depth of poetry in Brahms’ music. The third album Nada Meets Johannes Brahms is a portrait of Brahms’ deepest and most adventurous self. The fourth album, Capriccios & Intermezzos: Nada & Brahms — a 25-track double CD album displays the wonderful variety and array of colors and moods in Brahms’ music. The fifth album in the series is Pianist Nada/Johannes Brahms Part I, Part II, Part III — a 36-track triple CD album — in the series brings the project Brahms’ works full-circle concentrating on Brahms’ final works.
Read more below in “About the Album” and “Reviews.”
Musician:
Pianist Nada
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Pianist Nada’s repertoire ranges from early music to contemporary. She has dedicated a portion of her career to the piano works of Johannes Brahms. For Brahms Chorales she transcribed all 11 of Brahms Chorales, Op. 122 from organ to piano and recorded them on this album. Pianist Nada is one of the very few to have recorded all of Brahms piano solo works.
Read more below in “About the Album.”
Musician: Pianist Nada
Composer: Johannes Brahms
After dedicating 10 years to the study of the works of Johannes Brahms and recording five albums devoted to his piano solo works ─ all of which have been critically acclaimed in such publications as International Piano and Fanfare ─ Pianist Nada wrote and published her analysis of Brahms’ piano composition technique.
On this 21-minute track Pianist Nada narrates her analysis and performs many music examples.
The print version of her take on Brahms’ compositional style can be read in the renowned publication International Piano (IP) July 2019 issue. Her article is called “Brahms the Progressive” in IP’s “Personal Touch” feature on pages 30-31.
Musician:
Pianist Nada, Piano
Narrator: Pianist Nada
Pianist Nada Johannes Brahms — a 36-track triple CD album set — is the fifth album in a series of five by Pianist Nada of Johannes Brahms works for solo piano.
The first and second albums in the series—Nada in Hamburg with Johannes Brahms and Vienna: Brahms & Nada— explore the depth of poetry in Brahms’ music. The third album Nada Meets Johannes Brahms is a portrait of Brahms’ deepest and most adventurous self. The fourth album, Capriccios & Intermezzos: Nada & Brahms — a 25-track double CD album displays the wonderful variety and array of colors and moods in Brahms’ music. The fifth album in the series is Pianist Nada/Johannes Brahms Part I, Part II, Part III — a 36-track triple CD album — in the series brings the project Brahms’ works full-circle concentrating on Brahms’ final works.
Read more below in “About the Album” and “Reviews.”
Musician:
Pianist Nada
Composer: Johannes Brahms
“Capriccios & Intermezzos” is the fourth album in a series of five by Pianist Nada of Johannes Brahms works for solo piano.
The first and second albums in the series—Nada in Hamburg with Johannes Brahms and Vienna: Brahms & Nada— explore the depth of poetry in Brahms’ music. The third album Nada Meets Johannes Brahms is a portrait of Brahms’ deepest and most adventurous self. The fourth album, Capriccios & Intermezzos: Nada & Brahms — a 25-track double CD album displays the wonderful variety and array of colors and moods in Brahms’ music. The fifth album in the series is Pianist Nada/Johannes Brahms Part I, Part II, Part III — a 36-track triple CD album — in the series brings the project Brahms’ works full-circle concentrating on Brahms’ final works.
Read more below in “About the Album” and “Reviews.”
Musician: Pianist Nada
Composer: Johannes Brahms
“Nada Meets Johannes Brahms” is the third album in a series of five by Pianist Nada of Johannes Brahms works for solo piano.
TThe first and second albums in the series—Nada in Hamburg with Johannes Brahms and Vienna: Brahms & Nada— explore the depth of poetry in Brahms’ music. The third album Nada Meets Johannes Brahms is a portrait of Brahms’ deepest and most adventurous self. The fourth album, Capriccios & Intermezzos: Nada & Brahms — a 25-track double CD album displays the wonderful variety and array of colors and moods in Brahms’ music. The fifth album in the series is Pianist Nada/Johannes Brahms Part I, Part II, Part III — a 36-track triple CD album — in the series brings the project Brahms’ works full-circle concentrating on Brahms’ final works.
Read more below in “About the Album” and “Reviews.”
Musician: Pianist Nada
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Vienna: Brahms & Nada is the second album in a series of five by Pianist Nada of Johannes Brahms works for solo piano.
The first and second albums in the series—Nada in Hamburg with Johannes Brahms and Vienna: Brahms & Nada— explore the depth of poetry in Brahms’ music. The third album Nada Meets Johannes Brahms is a portrait of Brahms’ deepest and most adventurous self. The fourth album, Capriccios & Intermezzos: Nada & Brahms — a 25-track double CD album displays the wonderful variety and array of colors and moods in Brahms’ music. The fifth album in the series is Pianist Nada/Johannes Brahms Part I, Part II, Part III — a 36-track triple CD album — in the series brings the project Brahms’ works full-circle concentrating on Brahms’ final works.
Read more below in “About this Album” and “Reviews.”
Musician: Pianist Nada
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Nada in Hamburg with Johannes Brahms is the first album in a series of five by Pianist Nada of Johannes Brahms works for solo piano.
The first and second albums in the series—Nada in Hamburg with Johannes Brahms and Vienna: Brahms & Nada— explore the depth of poetry in Brahms’ music. The third album Nada Meets Johannes Brahms is a portrait of Brahms’ deepest and most adventurous self. The fourth album, Capriccios & Intermezzos: Nada & Brahms — a 25-track double CD album displays the wonderful variety and array of colors and moods in Brahms’ music. The fifth album in the series is Pianist Nada/Johannes Brahms Part I, Part II, Part III — a 36-track triple CD album — in the series brings the project Brahms’ works full-circle concentrating on Brahms’ final works.
Read more below in “About this Album” and “Reviews.”
Musician: Pianist Nada
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Les Sentiments D’Amour (Feelings of Love) is a collection of 20 chansons for piano composed by Eugene Marlow. He says: Each piece is a “character” sketch — even though one piece is about a place (Ballade Pour Yotvata), another about a cat (Mon Chat Le Roi). The music is about feelings. Music should always convey some kind of accessible feeling to an audience—in response to a person, a place, or an event—otherwise music is just an intellectual exercise. It should touch an audience in some way.
Read more below in “About the Album” and “Reviews.”
Musician:
Nada Loutfi, piano
Composer/Arranger: Eugene Marlow
Nada Loutfi, Pianist, originally released in 1997 and re-issued in 2016 on the MEII Enterprises label, is Pianist Nada’s inaugural album. It contains Johannes Brahms “Fantasien” (Opus 116) and French composer Paul Dukas’ infrequently performed “Sonata.”
With this re-issue, all of Pianist Nada‘s recordings are now on one label. Nada’s other recordings include all the solo piano works of Johannes Brahms. Her first recording with MEII Enterprises was Les Sentiments D’Amour (Feelings of Love), a CD of 20 short character pieces for solo piano in the French chanson tradition composed by Eugene Marlow.
Read more below in “About this Album.”
Musician:
Pianist Nada
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Composer: Paul Dukas
Pianist Nada
Pianist Nada Johannes Brahms — a 36-track triple CD album set — is the fifth album in a series of five by Pianist Nada of Johannes Brahms works for solo piano.
The first and second albums in the series—Nada in Hamburg with Johannes Brahms and Vienna: Brahms & Nada— explore the depth of poetry in Brahms’ music. The third album Nada Meets Johannes Brahms is a portrait of Brahms’ deepest and most adventurous self. The fourth album, Capriccios & Intermezzos: Nada & Brahms — a 25-track double CD album displays the wonderful variety and array of colors and moods in Brahms’ music. The fifth album in the series is Pianist Nada/Johannes Brahms Part I, Part II, Part III — a 36-track triple CD album — in the series brings the project Brahms’ works full-circle concentrating on Brahms’ final works.
Read more below in “About the Album” and “Reviews.”
Musician:
Pianist Nada
Composer: Johannes Brahms