Excerpts
Excerpts
Brad Mehldau
Three pieces after Bach
Recorded the April 2, 2018
(Grande salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie)
Program
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 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.
Distribution
Brad Mehldau
Composers - Authors
Johann Sebastian Bach
Brad Mehldau