Brad Mehldau - After Bach (Live at Philharmonie de Paris), Part 1

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4 жыл бұрын

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

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@imsorrydaveimafraidicantdothat 3 жыл бұрын

Just beautiful. The Glenn Gould of Jazz. Even has his bench.

@jamesfpianist1168 3 ай бұрын

The tonal palette he achieves is seriously astonishing.

@TheCheesemelter 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@hpc1717 3 жыл бұрын

This is a perfect description for Mehldau's musicianship. He really doesn't fit into any specific genre yet excels in multiple fields

@Mjollnir1234 3 жыл бұрын

That is a statement I can accept. He is just frustratiningly unique.

@dylandecker_music 4 жыл бұрын

The fact that he's absolutely killing it in 5....

@teddypantelas 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@daveydoodle52 Жыл бұрын

What a gift to articulate on the keyboard Bach's affect on his consciousness.

@alessandrovaccari782 3 жыл бұрын

I love Mehldau's objective approach to piano, without emphasis, controlled, but not cold.

@juliettewegrzyk3812 3 жыл бұрын

p0pp

@Pijanoo Жыл бұрын

I don't understand how this guy constantly composes music at this quality. Amazing.

@paulcassidy4559 3 жыл бұрын

I keep coming back to this performance, it's just so damn good.

@betouretmichel4999 2 жыл бұрын

Brad please ....another gem album of classical "declinaison"!your after bach is bliss.

@KarelCuelenaere 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@devaapurna608 Жыл бұрын

You said it beautifully 😘💖

@aambrioso Жыл бұрын

@@devaapurna608 I really like your idea of finding “a new detail in the world.” You express yourself as wonderfully as Brad plays the piano.

@josebasterrica3358 Жыл бұрын

Bach is number one

@MakeWeirdMusic 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful!

@RockRadioBlog 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for reuploading

@jazzunlimited3149 4 жыл бұрын

brad is magic!!!

@Airofwestport 4 жыл бұрын

Could listen to this music all night. So creative. Fantastic.

@ninadesianti9587 3 жыл бұрын

C’est magnifique!

@Super20011988 4 жыл бұрын

Love it.

@Frenkel111 Жыл бұрын

Mind blown 🤯

@CheluGarcia 2 жыл бұрын

just incredible

@ajohn6104 2 жыл бұрын

Florida man goes crazy while playing Bach

@RichardASalisbury1 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing!

@mariazafra3803 2 жыл бұрын

This makes me so giddily happy, I could cry, Thanks very much.

@rodrigobarbosa8781 3 жыл бұрын

Magnífico!

@dillonheimerl5683 3 жыл бұрын

This is the most incredible example of baroque morphing into jazz that I've ever heard. I mean this is pure genius....waaa

@FreddySpow 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Hugh9 Жыл бұрын

Some of the best music I've ever heard.

@joaopedromelao 4 жыл бұрын

0:59 oh maaan, Mehldau cannot help himself from swinging! Love it

@sergiofasan8591 4 жыл бұрын

already on 0:35 😂

@rillloudmother 4 жыл бұрын

@@sergiofasan8591 good ear!

@IvanBogdanReincke 3 жыл бұрын

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)

@mackiceicukice Жыл бұрын

Are you referring to his rubato ?

@wendelllima5871 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Brad!! There are no limits to music.

@italobino7167 4 жыл бұрын

I loved you before this, now I love you more. Thank you for this

@stefaniamazzei925 2 жыл бұрын

fantastico...entrare nel mondo di Brad è un privilegio ❤️

@lassejacobsen5127 4 жыл бұрын

Magic...

@nederlanditisnederlanditis5529 3 ай бұрын

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?

@kobzavajk 4 жыл бұрын

Magical and brilliant! Thank you Mr. Mehldau!

@mmaximk 3 ай бұрын

Spellbinding 🎹🎶

@michaelhayes690 4 жыл бұрын

Nice! We were on the same record label once. Closest I ever came to this. Lol. Thanks. You sound great!

@BrakeJiggs 3 жыл бұрын

this is my favorite WTC prelude as well!

@silvav2880 3 жыл бұрын

Mehldau my favorite

@Aras-vo5ib 3 жыл бұрын

incredible pleasure ... sounds are like a bridge from time to timeless

@devaapurna608 Жыл бұрын

Beautifully put😘💖

@jaccochrysler 4 жыл бұрын

Something about the phrasing makes the opening so addictive

@pasajeraentrance 4 жыл бұрын

♥️♥️♥️

@fernando_quad 2 жыл бұрын

THE ONE.

@danirubin6570 2 ай бұрын

Unbounded talent

@alexmedina8264 4 жыл бұрын

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!

@devaapurna608 Жыл бұрын

A musical disneyride in a dream is lovely, and fits. Thank you😘💖

@constantkiffer7924 3 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@ERIKSONDHYTV 3 жыл бұрын

speechless ... oh My GOD

@staffanolofsson8201 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@AndreaGorettiMusic 4 жыл бұрын

Beyond human

@quint555 2 жыл бұрын

Love the facial expressions around 3:15 xD

@jeanlucchapelon 3 жыл бұрын

Brad Meldhau and Gabriella Montero are the best improvisers ! Incredible...No limits to their imagination AND technique !

@jeanlucchapelon 3 ай бұрын

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 !

@lenslemonbenzem6907 3 жыл бұрын

i hope the next brad project. orchestra back live recording in germany. jsbach him ripping out by brad

@blackwell2322 4 жыл бұрын

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 KZfaq channel.

@jiyujizai 3 жыл бұрын

😊💓💚🌾

@judycastle5318 Жыл бұрын

Just sublime(◕ᴗ◕✿)

@y_j909 4 жыл бұрын

💥🤷🏻‍♂️💥

@postilla4618 Ай бұрын

Glenn Gould and Brad Mehldau together 🔥

@GjaP_242 2 күн бұрын

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]

@felipealonso8409 4 жыл бұрын

Damn! That piano talks 8:39

@elialg 3 жыл бұрын

7:56 !

@auroradarienzo 3 жыл бұрын

@sonicgrub 4 жыл бұрын

!!!!

@johnlindstrom9994 2 жыл бұрын

Since Bach improvised, could he be considered the first Jazz player? If so Mehldau is in a long line.

@hansmahr8627 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@JazzGuitarScrapbook Жыл бұрын

Every professional musician improvised back then

@martinheath5947 3 ай бұрын

This is about taking a composition and improvising in 5/4 time

@johnlindstrom9994 2 жыл бұрын

Mehldau and Kremer should get together on Bach!!

@jean-pierreducournau6048 2 жыл бұрын

Voilà de quoi "clouer le bec" aux dévots du classique !! Respects Mr. Mehldau

@adamblock5141 Жыл бұрын

I can’t tell how much is improvised. Anyone know how this is written out?

@pianohugo69420 9 ай бұрын

It’s written out. He sold the sheet music at a show of which I saw him perform. Blew my mind.

@andreasburkard3701 2 ай бұрын

that’s carzy

@CushTuse 4 жыл бұрын

it sounds like he’s pulling those notes from the piano

@timothymount8554 5 ай бұрын

My piano teacher told me moving my mouth like that didn't really help my playing.

@cbayardelle 2 ай бұрын

When it comes Bach we all suck. (pat Metheny)

@olesinell7994 Жыл бұрын

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.

@peytonsmith9390 7 ай бұрын

Rollercoaster comment haha 😂

@Viktorvelat95 2 ай бұрын

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.

@Tadshikisch 3 жыл бұрын

Galactic Earth meets Rhythmic Earth...

@Super20011988 4 жыл бұрын

Some body sick in the public. Why he didn't stay at home??

@sirzebra 4 жыл бұрын

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 !

@introlover Жыл бұрын

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...

@thecosmicblues Жыл бұрын

your comment is completely Awful!