Brad Mehldau -After Bach -NONESUCH CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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01. "Before Bach: Benediction"

02. "Prelude No. 3 in C# major from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1, BWV 848"

03. "After Bach: Rondo"

04. "Prelude No. 1 in C major from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2, BWV 870"

05. "After Bach: Pastorale"

06. "Prelude No. 10 in E minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1, BWV 855"

07. "After Bach: Flux"

08. "Prelude and Fugue No. 12 in F minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1, BWV 857"

09. "After Bach: Dream"

10. "Fugue No. 16 in G minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 2, BWV 885"

11. "After Bach: Ostinato"

12. "Prayer for healing"

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Brad Mehldau's After Bach on Nonesuch Records. 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 â?¦ Some three centuries after the fact, Brad Mehldau takes up this tradition and applies it to a frustratingly unknowable aspect of Bach's art." -

2018 release. After Bach comprises Brad Mehldau'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 it's WTC mate. "There have always been elements of Mehldau's style that recall Bach," writes Timo Andres in the liner note. "After Bach surveys their shared ground as keyboardists, improvisers, and composers, making implicit parallels explicit."

Recorded April 18-20, 2017, at Mechanics Hall, Worcester, MA

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7559793180

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