Brad Mehldau: After Bach
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Label: Nonesuch
Cat No: 7559793180
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 9th March 2018
Contents
Works
The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1, BWV846-869After Bach: Flux
After Bach: Ostinato
After Bach: Pastorale
After Bach: Rondo
Before Bach: Benediction
Prayer for Healing
Artists
Brad Mehldau (piano)Works
The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1, BWV846-869After Bach: Flux
After Bach: Ostinato
After Bach: Pastorale
After Bach: Rondo
Before Bach: Benediction
Prayer for Healing
Artists
Brad Mehldau (piano)About
As Mehldau’s label mate Timo Andres says in his After Bach liner note, “As a professional organist, much of Bach’s work took the form of improvisation, and during his lifetime it was the virtuosity and complexity of these improvisations for which he was most admired. Some three centuries after the fact, Brad Mehldau takes up this tradition and applies it to a frustratingly unknowable aspect of Bach’s art.”
Andres continues, “There have always been elements of Mehldau’s style that recall Bach, especially his densely-woven voicing – but he’s not striving to imitate or play dress-up. Rather, After Bach surveys their shared ground as keyboardists, improvisers, and composers, making implicit parallels explicit.”
After Bach originated in a work Mehldau first performed in 2015 – commissioned by Carnegie Hall, The Royal Conservatory of Music, The National Concert Hall, and Wigmore Hall – called Three Pieces After Bach.
Brad Mehldau’s Nonesuch debut was the 2004 solo disc Live in Tokyo and includes six records with his trio: House on Hill, Day Is Done, Brad Mehldau Trio Live, Ode, Where Do You Start, and Blues and Ballads. His collaborative records on the label include Love Sublime, Highway Rider, Metheny Mehldau, Metheny Mehldau Quartet, Modern Music, Mehliana: Taming the Dragon, Nearness with Joshua Redman, and 2017’s Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau. His additional solo albums on Nonesuch include Live in Marciac and the eight-LP/four-CD 10 Years Solo Live, which the New York Times says ‘contains some of the most impressive pianism he has captured on record’.
‘A balance of space and intensity perfectly struck. An unaccompanied performance split between respectfully straight recitals of several JS Bach classics, and densely dazzling compositions and improvisations inspired by them.’ – Guardian
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