Composer: Brad Mehldau, David Mann, Cole Albert Porter, Franz Peter Schubert, Jack Strachey
Performer: Ian Bostridge, Brad Mehldau
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Pentatone
Catalogue: PTC5187035
Release: 2023
Size: 2.25 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Mehldau: The Folly of Desire
01. The Sick Rose
02. Leda and the Swan
03. Sonnet 147
04. Sonnet 75
05. Über die Verführung von Engeln
06. Ganymede I
07. Ganymede II
08. the boys i mean are not refined
09. Sailing to Byzantium
10. Night II
11. Lullaby
12. Strachey: These Foolish Things
13. Mann: In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning
14. Porter: Evr’y Time we say Goodbye
15. Schubert: Nacht und Träume, D827
16. Porter: Night and Day
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 schone Mullerin (2020), Schwanengesang (2022) and Respighi Songs (2021) with the label.