Performers
Brad Mehldau, Klavier
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach
Präludium 3 Cis-Dur BWV 848 (Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Band I) (1722)
Brad Mehldau
After Bach 1: Rondo (Three Pieces After Bach) (2015) (EA)
Ein Kompositionsauftrag der Carnegie Hall, dem Royal Conservatory of Music, der National Concert Hall und der Wigmore Hall, mit freundlicher Unterstützung von André Hoffmann, Präsident der Fondation Hoffmann.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Präludium C-Dur BWV 870 (Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Band II) (1738–1742)
Brad Mehldau
Improvisation on Bach I
Johann Sebastian Bach
Fuge 16 g-moll BWV 885 (Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Band II) (1738–1742)
Brad Mehldau
After Bach 2: Ostinato (Three Pieces After Bach) (2015) (EA)
Ein Kompositionsauftrag der Carnegie Hall, dem Royal Conservatory of Music, der National Concert Hall und der Wigmore Hall, mit freundlicher Unterstützung von André Hoffmann, Präsident der Fondation Hoffmann
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Präludium 6 d-moll BWV 851 (Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Band I) (1722)
Brad Mehldau
After Bach 3: Toccata (Three Pieces After Bach) (2015) (EA)
Ein Kompositionsauftrag der Carnegie Hall, dem Royal Conservatory of Music, der National Concert Hall und der Wigmore Hall, mit freundlicher Unterstützung von André Hoffmann, Präsident der Fondation Hoffmann.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Allemande (Partita Nr. 4 D-Dur BWV 828) (1726–1731)
Brad Mehldau
Improvisation on Bach II
Johann Sebastian Bach
Präludium und Fuge 12 f-moll BWV 857 (Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Band I) (1722)
Brad Mehldau
Improvisation on Bach III
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Zugabe:
Radiohead
Little by little
George Gershwin
How long has this been going on (Rosalie) (1927)
Frank Loesser
The inch worm
Note
Unterstützt von Erste Bank
Medienpartner Ö1 Club
Although Brad Mehldau was originally trained as a classical musician, he was a passionate jazz fan even in his youth. His solo recitals are characterised not only by their utterly convincing combination of the styles and elements of a wide range of musical eras, but also by Mehldau’s innovative treatment of the »Great American Songbook« and jazz standards. He has been showered with prizes, such as the Miles Davis Prize which he was awarded in 2006. And his genre-shattering re-interpretations of songs by the Beatles, Radiohead and Nirvana have won him no fewer than five Grammy nominations so far. This time Brad Mehldau embarks on a new stage of his musical journey: »Three Pieces After Bach« is the title of a project commissioned by the Carnegie Hall in New York and sees Mehldau bring his jazz improvisations to the works of the Baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach. The pianist displays his incredible talent as a masterful improviser and when he combines pieces from Bach’s »Well-Tempered Clavier« with his own compositions, he dissolves barriers.