After Bach / Brad Mehldau.
Material type:
MusicPublisher number: 565982-2 | NonesuchPublisher: New York, NY : Nonesuch, [2018]Copyright date: ℗2018Description: 1 audio disc (1:09:16) : digital, CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - performed music
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- audio disc
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Northport Library | CD | CLASSICAL Mehldau, Brad | Available | 33111009100641 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Brad Mehldau's ruminative, harmonically nuanced jazz has long demonstrated a deep classical influence. His highly regarded 1999 Elegiac Cycle found him evincing the work of composers like Brahms, Chopin, and Schumann. He went on to offer similar cycles to classical vocalists Renee Fleming and Anne Sofie von Otter. All of which is to say that, like his forebears, pianists Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, and Paul Bley, Mehldau is as likely to draw upon a classical piece as any jazz standard, especially when he is playing his own often meditative original compositions. On 2018's After Bach, the acclaimed pianist takes that classical influence to its logical fruition, investigating composer J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier fugues. Alongside Bach's work, he offers his own "After Bach" compositions inspired by the fugues. While Mehldau is primarily known as a jazz musician, he's no slouch as a classical pianist, either. Blessed with a supple technique and emotive keyboard flow, he offers deft renditions of Bach's fugues. Here, he dances spritely through "Prelude No. 3 in C sharp major, BWV 848 (from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I)~Prelude," and delivers a drawn-out, mournful take on "Prelude and Fugue No. 12 in F minor, BWV 587 (from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I)." His own "After Bach" compositions are equally compelling, as he takes Bach's circular, swirling architecture and builds his own pieces, weaving in bits of jazz-informed harmonics and unexpected lyrical asides. Cuts like "Rondo" and "Flux" are buoyant and circular, splitting the difference between Vince Guaraldi and Keith Jarrett. Elsewhere, "Dream" plays like an impressionist Debussy composition as performed by Matthew Shipp. With After Bach, Mehldau has crafted a warm, endlessly listenable album that still pushes plenty of musical boundaries. ~ Matt Collar
Title from disc label.
Brad Mehldau, piano.
Recorded 2017 April 18-20 Mechanics Hall, Worcester, MA.
Program notes by Timo Andres (12 unnumbered pages : illustrations) inserted in container.
Before Bach : Benediction / Brad Mehldau (5:27) -- Prelude no. 3 in C# major from The well-tempered clavier, book I, BWV 848 / J.S. Bach (1:21) -- After Bach. Rondo / Brad Mehldau (8:21) -- Prelude no. 1 in C major from The well-tempered clavier, book II, BWV 870 / J.S. Bach (2:36) -- After Bach. Pastorale / Brad Mehldau (3:46) -- Prelude no. 10 in E minor from The well-tempered clavier book I, BWV 855 / J.S. Bach (2:16) -- After Bach. Flux / Brad Mehldau (5:06) -- Prelude and fugue no. 12 in F minor from The well-tempered clavier, book I, BWV 857 / J.S. Bach (6:10) -- After Bach. Dream / Brad Mehldau (7:50) -- Fugue no. 16 in G minor from The well-tempered clavier book II, BWV 885 / J.S. Bach (3:04) -- After Bach. Ostinato (12:20) ; Prayer for healing (11:06) / Brad Mehldau.