{"id":16134,"date":"2021-10-01T17:59:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/?p=16134"},"modified":"2021-10-01T18:03:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T16:03:29","slug":"brad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/brad\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Mehldau &#038; The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<a href=\"http:\/\/nonesuch.com\/artists\/brad-mehldau\">Brad Mehldau<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/smarturl.it\/mehldauvariations\"><em>Variations on a Melancholy Theme<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>is out now\u00a0on Nonesuch Records, avaialble everywhere\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/smarturl.it\/mehldauvariations\">here<\/a>. The recording features the pianist\/composer and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nonesuch.com\/artists\/orpheus-chamber-orchestra\">Orpheus Chamber Orchestra<\/a>, which commissioned this orchestral version of the work, which comprises a theme and eleven variations plus a cadenza and postlude; the album also includes an encore, \u201cVariations \u2018X\u2019 and \u2018Y.\u2019\u201d Also out today is a video with Variation 4, which you can watch below. (Mehldau originally composed\u00a0<em>Variations on a Melancholy Theme<\/em>\u00a0for pianist Kirill Gerstein.) Mehldau and Orpheus toured Europe, Russia, and the US with the piece, including a 2013 performance at Carnegie Hall. Mehldau has several solo tour dates and shows with the Brad Mehldau Trio in Europe this summer; see below for details and tickets, or visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nonesuch.com\/on-tour\/brad-mehldau\">nonesuch.com\/on-tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the combination of classical form with jazz harmonies in the work\u2019s musical language, Mehldau wrote, \u201cI imagine it as if Brahms woke up one day and had the blues.\u201d He continues, \u201cThe theme itself has a wistful character, perhaps a feeling of resignation. There is some sense of finality and ending to it when heard for the first time already. So as I composed, a narrative challenge emerged; namely, how to embark on a story that begins with a conclusion. While the theme evokes melancholy, I let it be used as a springboard for other happy, wild, violent, and reckless emotions as the variations progress.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Brad Mehldau\u2019s\u00a0Variations on a Melancholy Theme\u00a0is out now\u00a0on Nonesuch Records, avaialble everywhere\u00a0here. The recording features the pianist\/composer and\u00a0Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, which commissioned this orchestral version of the work, which comprises a theme and eleven variations plus a cadenza and postlude; the album also includes an encore, \u201cVariations \u2018X\u2019 and \u2018Y.\u2019\u201d Also out today is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brad-mehldau-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16134"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16390,"href":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16134\/revisions\/16390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.looproductions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}