A Mature Piano Album Born From Fertile Music Experience

This is a “seasoned”piano album created with unique sensitivity and sense.Masao Nakajima recorded Brahms’s Symphony No.1 with the Wroclaw Symphony Orchestra in Poland right before the release of this album and enthralled the audience with orthodox German Music filled

With natural inspiration.Listening to that recording in addition to this album would leave every listener impressed by the splendor of his music and the richness of his musical capacity.                             

Masao Nakajima started his professional career as a pianist at the age of sixteen, and during his subsequent careers as a Glenn Miller Orchestra.  Lew Tabackin. Lee Konitz. Gary Foster.Eddie Gomez. ElvinJones,…….Nakajima also enjoys an active career in classic music. Performing at recitals and with orchestras.exhibiting a truly “colorful “musical experience.  However, he revisited and refined his conducting and classic piano playing at Toho Gakuen School of Music and other institutions under celebrated composers such as  Kunio Toda, and Michio Mamiya ,conducting czar ,Masamitsu Takahashi, and World-renowned pianist and leading instructor Jorg Demus, and thus Nakajima present us with his renewed music on these two albums.                                                                                                                                                            

the  reason for my  outlining part of his profile is because this album has put together “seasoned”music that can only be expressed by an artist steeped in musical experience, ,,,,

First, the selection is nothing if not unique, Chopin, Bach, Poulenc, and Piazzolla,,,,a line of pieces  almost unimaginable by typical pianists, the album features music embodying ethnicities of the composers from eastern, central, and western Europe, and South America, also varying in their styles, Romantic, Baroque, modern and contemporary, However, the  musicians are all connected by France: Chopin expatriated to France,Bach was greatly influenced by the style in France,Poulenc is a Parisian, and Piazzolla studied music in France,Most pieces  defer to jazzy expressions, and taking a closer look,

Maybe Poulenc and Piazzolla are used to a construct a prelude and fugue like Bach ,As such the composition of this album offers suggestive enjoyment.  Chopin”s scherzo is played out sound after sound with care  from the beginning, An irresistible rubato folded into the subtle cantabile expressions from the left hand,,,,,,the occasional accentuation within those meticulous movements that takes the breath away  from the audience. The performance of Bach’s  well-tempered  clavier is composed of a beautifully clear prelude followed by an elaborated  fugue .

In particular, prelude No.1 in C major,BW847, which is V 846 Acquaints  you with a pure, musical world , perhaps musical state of nothingness, prelud No.2 in C miner, BWV847, which is commonly played with a rough touch, is also played softly by Nakajima. All preludes are played with placidity, creating a feeling of subdued refinement.Poulenc and Piazzolla are chic gems with a touch of groove. Particularly, Piazzolla offers a flavor that no ordinary classic pianist can conjure and a suave presentation that is a treat for the ears.      Nakajima’s piano music produced with thorough care and with no driven rush.  It is a  mature  musical  conversation with no raised voices.                                                                                                                                                                                (Supplement)  since 2010 . Studied in under  Lior Chambadar,( Music Director of the Berliner  Symphoniker). Mark Laycock、(Philadelphia Orchestra, conductor,), Colin Metters,( Royal Academy of Music in London),