Après Fauré Brad Mehldau

• 1 Nocturne No. 13 in B Minor, Op. 119 (1921) 06:28
• 2 Nocturne No. 4 in E-Flat Major, Op. 36 (c. 1884) 06:39
• 3 Nocturne No. 12 in E Minor, Op. 107 (1915) 06:20
• 4 Prelude 03:31
• 5 Caprice 03:40
• 6 Nocturne 02:43
• 7 Vision 02:03
• 8 Nocturne No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 74 (1898) 08:39
• 9 Piano Quartet No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 45 (c. 1887): III. Adagio non troppo (Extract) 02:46
• Total Runtime 42:49

Info for Après Fauré

On After Fauré, Mehldau performs four Nocturnes, from a thirty-seven-year span of Gabriel Fauré’s career, as well as a reduction of an excerpt from the Adagio movement of his Piano Quartet in G Minor. Here Mehldau’s four compositions that Fauré inspired are presented in a group, bookended by two sections featuring the French composer’s works. Discussing the Après Fauré album in his note, Mehldau says: “If the sublime foreshadows our mortality, this music might communicate the austerity of death – Fauré’s as it approached him, but also the apprehension of our own. We find a kinship with the composer finally, in the form of a question that he tossed off into the future, to us. I have composed four pieces to accompany Fauré’s music here, to share the way I have engaged with Fauré’s question, with you, the listener.”

Brad Mehldau, piano

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