[2018-03-09] Brad Mehldau "After Bach" (Nonesuch)

Charlie · **Joined:** 23 Dec 2014 **Posts:** 14199

Description
Nonesuch releases Brad Mehldau’s After Bach on March 9, 2018. The album comprises the pianist/composer’s recordings of four preludes and one fugue from J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, each followed by an “After Bach” piece written by Mehldau and inspired by its WTC mate. The album begins with Mehldau’s own “Before Bach: Benediction” and ends with his “Prayer For Healing.”

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.

Tracklist
1. Before Bach: Benediction
2. Prelude No. 3 in C# Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 848
3. After Bach: Rondo
4. Prelude No. 1 in C Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II, BWV 870
5. After Bach: Pastorale
6. Prelude No. 10 in E Minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 855
7. After Bach: Flux
8. Prelude and Fugue No. 12 in F Minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 857
9. After Bach: Dream
10. Fugue No. 16 in G Minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II, BWV 885
11. After Bach: Ostinato
12. Prayer For Healing

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Charlie · **Joined:** 23 Dec 2014 **Posts:** 14199

[2018-03-09] Brad Mehldau "After Bach" (Nonesuch)

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