Mehldau: The Folly of Desire Brad Mehldau & Ian Bostridge

• Brad Mehldau (b. 1970): The Folly of Desire:
• 1 Mehldau: The Folly of Desire: The Sick Rose 01:42
• 2 Mehldau: The Folly of Desire: Leda and the Swan 04:17
• 3 Mehldau: The Folly of Desire: Sonnet 147 02:55
• 4 Mehldau: The Folly of Desire: Sonnet 75 02:49
• 5 Mehldau: The Folly of Desire: Über die Verführung von Engeln 03:14
• 6 Mehldau: The Folly of Desire: Ganymede I 06:27
• 7 Mehldau: The Folly of Desire: Ganymede II 03:28
• 8 Mehldau: The Folly of Desire: the boys i mean are not refined 04:50
• 9 Mehldau: The Folly of Desire: Sailing to Byzantium 02:22
• 10 Mehldau: The Folly of Desire: Night II 06:41
• 11 Mehldau: The Folly of Desire: Lullaby 07:54
• Jack Strachey (1894 - 1972): These foolish things:
• 12 Strachey: These foolish things 05:12
• David Mann (1940 - 2004): The wee small hours:
• 13 Mann: The wee small hours 03:08
• Cole Porter (1891 - 1964): Every time we say goodbye:
• 14 Porter: Every time we say goodbye 05:05
• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): Nacht & Träume:
• 15 Schubert: Nacht & Träume 03:47
• Cole Porter: Night & Day:
• 16 Porter: Night & Day 03:55
• Total Runtime 01:07:46

Info for Mehldau: The Folly of Desire

Brad Mehldau presents The Folly of Desire, a song cycle inquiring the limits of sexual freedom in a post-#MeToo political age, together with tenor Ian Bostridge, one of the greatest song interpreters of our times. Setting poetry by Blake, Yeats, Shakespeare, Brecht, Goethe, Auden and Cummings, Mehldau’s music shifts seamlessly between a jazz idiom and Classical art song, and the work explores a theme as timeless as it is topical. The stylistic diversity of this project is underlined by adding a selection of jazz standards, as well as a Schubert lied.

Grammy Award winning jazz pianist Brad Mehldau has recorded and performed extensively since the early 1990s, and makes his Pentatone debut with The Folly of Desire. His performances and compositions convey a wide range of expression. Ian Bostridge is one of the most celebrated tenors and lied interpreters of his generation. His Pentatone recording of Schubert’s Winterreise(2019) was crowned with the ICMA Vocal Music Award 2020. Bostridge has also released Die schöne Müllerin (2020), Schwanengesang (2022) and Respighi Songs (2021) with the label.

Ian Bostridge, tenor
Brad Mehldau, piano

No biography found.

Booklet for Mehldau: The Folly of Desire