Brad Mehldau

Three pieces after Bach

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Piano Recital

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Grande salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie

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Duration: about 2h10 with 1 intermission

Program

Distribution

Johann Sebastian Bach

Le Clavier bien tempéré (Livre I) : Prélude n°3 en do dièse majeur, BWV 848

Brad Mehldau

Three Pieces After Bach / After Bach 1 : Rondo

Johann Sebastian Bach

Le Clavier bien tempéré (Livre II) : Prélude n°1 en do majeur, BWV 870

Le Clavier bien tempéré (Livre II) : Fugue n°16 en sol mineur, BWV 885

Brad Mehldau

Three Pieces After Bach / After Bach 2 : Ostinato

Intermission

Johann Sebastian Bach

Le Clavier bien tempéré (Livre I) : Prélude n°6 en ré mineur, BWV 851

Brad Mehldau

Three Pieces After Bach / After Bach 3 : Toccata

Johann Sebastian Bach

Le Clavier bien tempéré (Livre I) : Prélude n°7 en mi bémol majeur, BWV 852

Le Clavier bien tempéré (Livre I) : Prélude et Fugue n°20 en la mineur, BWV 865

Brad Mehldau , piano

Brad Mehldau is without a doubt one of the most influential jazz musicians of the last twenty years. Newspaper The Guardian has described him as “an unparalleled classical technician, able to transform a jazz standard into a Bach fugue.” For this exceptional programme on the Philharmonie’s main stage, the pianist works in the other direction, taking Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier as a starting point to inspire his own compositions.