Pianist Nada - Brahms Chorales

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Pianist Nada

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

Pianist Nada

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

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  • The 11 Brahms chorales for organ in this digital album is the first time all 11 have been transcribed for piano.

    Pianist Nada does not consider these 11 chorales to be part of Brahms solo piano catalogue. She says “These are organ pieces. They are part of the organ repertoire. I adapted them to the piano. It’s just like the tradition of pianists who have been attracted to organ repertoire and attempted transcriptions of Bach, for example, who composed 371 chorales. Again, these are not arrangements. I did not want to alter Brahms’ language in any way.” 

    Like Brahms, Pianist Nada enjoys the organ, although she has not mastered playing it: “Brahms very early on turned his attention to the organ and dreamed of becoming a virtuoso organist. He wrote some magnificent pieces.

    “The chorales were his last compositions. It is quite revealing that he returned to a form of music so reserved and meditative at the end of his life, as well as to the organ as its vehicle. The chorales are meant to be a prayer to the ‘after life.’ Some of those may well have been written when he was already suffering from the early stages of terminal liver cancer. 

    “The greatest challenge in transcribing the music was to give a dimension to each piece (especially while lacking a pedal keyboard), as well as making the notes of the chorale as clear as possible in the texture of the music,” says Pianist Nada. “The only thing which is different about the music is the sound. You’re hearing a piano rather than an organ. 

    “Certain chorales did not require much change. Three are written for the keyboard only (no pedal). I am sure Brahms sat at the piano himself to conceive those chorales and imagined the sound to be an organ. Overall, it is just an adaptation. The fingering is probably the trickiest of all, since as a pianist I found ways to adjust as much as possible to an organist’s approach to fingering.”

  • Title: Brahms Chorales

    Catalog #: C-26-2019

    Release date: 2019
    UPC: 682131866825
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