Artist: Brad Mehldau
Title: After Bach
Year Of Release: 2018
Label: Nonesuch
Genre: Jazz, Classical
Quality: 24bit-96kHz FLAC
Total Time: 69:16
Total Size: 1.31 GB
Tracklist:
1. Before Bach: Benediction 5:27
2. The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 848: Prelude No. 3 in C# Major 1:21
3. After Bach: Rondo 8:21
4. The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II, BWV 870: Prelude No. 1 in C Major 2:36
5. After Bach: Pastorale 3:46
6. The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 855: Prelude No. 10 in E Minor 2:16
7. After Bach: Flux 5:06
8. The Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 857: Prelude and Fugue No. 12 in F Minor 6:10
9. After Bach: Dream 07:49
10. The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II, BWV 885: Fugue No. 16 in G Minor 3:04
11. After Bach: Ostinato 12:20
12. Prayer for Healing 11:06
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.” Pre-orders of After Bach are available now at iTunes and nonesuch.com and include an instant download of the album track “After Bach: Rondo.”
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.
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