Brad Mehldau - After Bach (Live at Philharmonie de Paris), Part 1
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- Brad Mehldau performs the C# Major Prelude from Book I of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and his own Three Pieces After Bach: I. Rondo live in the Grande Salle Pierre Boulez of the Philharmonie de Paris on April 2, 2018.
Brad Mehldau's album 'After Bach' is available at smarturl.it/AfterBach - Hudba
Just beautiful. The Glenn Gould of Jazz. Even has his bench.
there just isn't a category for this guy. he's constantly evolving. i've seen him a few times over the years (yoshi's oakland and zellerbach) and it's always magic. he becomes so intimate with the instrument, his entire being and the keys merge into one.
This is a perfect description for Mehldau's musicianship. He really doesn't fit into any specific genre yet excels in multiple fields
That is a statement I can accept.
He is just frustratiningly unique.
The tonal palette he achieves is seriously astonishing.
The fact that he's absolutely killing it in 5....
There is no one like him! He’s constantly reaching higher and higher for new things and accomplishing them. This is a great performance. Not enough stars to rate this!
I keep coming back to this performance, it's just so damn good.
What a gift to articulate on the keyboard Bach's affect on his consciousness.
Could listen to this music all night. So creative. Fantastic.
This is truly wonderful.
I remember seeing this two years ago, and how surprised and delighted I was by what I heard. Now again I'm overcome by a kind of joy, a childish pleasure in discovering a new possibility, a new detail in the world. It's hard to comprehend but it just happens.
You said it beautifully 😘💖
@@devaapurna608 I really like your idea of finding “a new detail in the world.” You express yourself as wonderfully as Brad plays the piano.
Brad please ....another gem album of classical "declinaison"!your after bach is bliss.
I love Mehldau's objective approach to piano, without emphasis, controlled, but not cold.
p0pp
Bach is number one
Some of the best music I've ever heard.
Florida man goes crazy while playing Bach
fantastico...entrare nel mondo di Brad è un privilegio ❤️
Le Rondo, que ce soit en album ou en live, me transporte à chaque fois, de la beauté du thème stricte aux explorations harmoniques avec tout leurs possibles suggérés...
Absolument magnifique
I don't understand how this guy constantly composes music at this quality. Amazing.
talent?
This makes me so giddily happy, I could cry, Thanks very much.
C’est magnifique!
Yeah, Brad!!
There are no limits to music.
I loved you before this, now I love you more. Thank you for this
Thank you for reuploading
Wonderful!
Magnífico!
brad is magic!!!
incredible pleasure ... sounds are like a bridge from time to timeless
Beautifully put😘💖
This is the most incredible example of baroque morphing into jazz that I've ever heard. I mean this is pure genius....waaa
just incredible
Love it.
0:59 oh maaan, Mehldau cannot help himself from swinging! Love it
already on 0:35 😂
@@sergiofasan8591 good ear!
Haha 😄 even Bach couldn‘t help himself from swinging, I just realized there is a very similar figure in the beginning of bar 13 of the fugue, but it’s written down (actually it‘s exactly the same note like in the prelude, I think this is an extraordinary occurrence in Bachs Music)
Are you referring to his rubato ?
Amazing!
Mind blown 🤯
Magical and brilliant! Thank you Mr. Mehldau!
Mehldau my favorite
Magic...
So grateful for this posting! Thank you! Im on a musical disneyride in a dream...the subtle, beautiful, and soul affirming surprises keep coming. Thank you!
A musical disneyride in a dream is lovely, and fits. Thank you😘💖
This is the guy who in 02/24 mentioned, while talking to Beato, that Bach would be a challenge just to play it as correctly as Bach intended his stuff to be played (what the notation demands); and that would be of a sufficiently high enough nature of challenge. It's fair to say he's overachieved that in a way, hasn't he?
Spellbinding 🎹🎶
this is my favorite WTC prelude as well!
Something about the phrasing makes the opening so addictive
Nice! We were on the same record label once. Closest I ever came to this. Lol. Thanks. You sound great!
Unbounded talent
♥️♥️♥️
THE ONE.
If Bach is Jazz, Bach has never been more jazzish than this. And if Jazz is Bach, jazz has never been more Bachish than this.
❤❤❤
speechless ... oh My GOD
Brad Meldhau and Gabriella Montero are the best improvisers !
Incredible...No limits to their imagination AND technique !
Mon commentaire était exagéré car emporté par l’admiration vouée à ces deux artistes mais il y a bien d’autres grands improvisateurs comme Herbie,Mike Garson,Keith Jarrett,Thierry Eliez etc… qui sont tout aussi incroyables !
Beyond human
i hope the next brad project.
orchestra back live recording in germany.
jsbach him ripping out by brad
Love the facial expressions around 3:15 xD
7:56 !
😊💓💚🌾
Damn! That piano talks 8:39
Seems like there is some missing. Wish Nonesuch would just post the whole concert on 1 video like it used to be available through the Philharmonie de Paris CZcams channel.
Glenn Gould and Brad Mehldau together 🔥
The Canadian pianist Glenn Gould was one of the most brilliant and idiosyncratic interpreters of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. 1:01[Open Culture]
💥🤷🏻♂️💥
!!!!
Just sublime(◕ᴗ◕✿)
Since Bach improvised, could he be considered the first Jazz player? If so Mehldau is in a long line.
Improvisation was around long before jazz. Pretty much all classical composers improvised. Beethoven took part in 'piano duels' where you had to improvise in a competition with another pianist. The famous first movement of the Moonlight Sonata was a written down improvisation. And even today organists still learn how to improvise in music school.
Every professional musician improvised back then
This is about taking a composition and improvising in 5/4 time
Mehldau and Kremer should get together on Bach!!
it sounds like he’s pulling those notes from the piano
that’s carzy
Voilà de quoi "clouer le bec" aux dévots du classique !! Respects Mr. Mehldau
I can’t tell how much is improvised. Anyone know how this is written out?
It’s written out. He sold the sheet music at a show of which I saw him perform. Blew my mind.
My piano teacher told me moving my mouth like that didn't really help my playing.
When it comes Bach we all suck. (pat Metheny)
It seems like Brad played a wrong note in the first part. Since the piece is in C# Major, it should be a B# in the left hand in bar 84 on beat 3, not a B natural like he played. I was quickly checking other recordings, because sometimes musicologists disagree about which note is right. But on all recordings that I checked (Schiff, Richter, Gulda, Jarrett) B# was played.
Even on his studio recording Brad plays B natural. That makes me wonder if he considered B natural to be the "right" note and consciously preferred it to B#. It could have been Bach who forgot to mark the note as B natural. But my guess is that Brad simply overlooked that it should be B#. C# Major is hard to read after all (especially for jazz musicians, who are used to Db major).
Anyway, B natural works fine actually and the moral of the story should be that music is not an exact science. What counts is that the music moves people, and Brad certainly moved me (and apparently many others, as I'm looking through the comments) with this recording.
Rollercoaster comment haha 😂
You sir are correct regarding the B# note, however B natural works just as fine in this particular sequence and it’s the most innocent possible mistake ever IMO, so let’s just forgive the maestro Mehldau for committing this little “crime”.
Btw, there is a famous recording of Arthur Rubinstein playing the Chopin Waltz op. 42 in A flat major where in the bar 42 the top note of the phrase that he plays is a B flat instead of A flat (I only know one edition where this mistake occurs and apparently Rubi learned the Waltz from that edition and memorised it that way for the rest of his life). He plays the B flat note every time since this theme no.2 is like a reoccurring ritornello theme of the waltz.
Galactic Earth meets Rhythmic Earth...
Some body sick in the public. Why he didn't stay at home??
Theres always that one guy, it's almost a prophecy at this point, if noone is about to cough for half the performance i'm sure theres a taskforce of just sick enough paratroopers ready to jump straight to your nearest concert to make sure that role is occupied !
I m sorry: His BACH-playing is awful. Sometimes too fast, sometimes too slow, when he is uncertain. Its like, at the beginning: "let´s run for it and see what happens!" The Jazzy-Thing is better, but...
your comment is completely Awful!