Brad Mehldau
Sunday 7 May 2006 12:00-13:00 (Radio 3)
Michael Berkeley's guest is American jazz pianist and composer Brad Mehldau, who recently appeared in the UK with his trio, and has just released a new album, Day is Done.
Mehldau is currently working on a Carnegie Hall commission to write and perform songs with soprano Renee Fleming. His musical passions include a Prokofiev piano sonata; Schnittke's Psalms of Repentance; an aria from Bellini's opera Norma - sung by Maria Callas; a piano piece by Messiaen; and Fauré's exquisite song Après un rêve.
Playlist
1 Sig M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (from Music from Chaucer)
(Berkeley/OUP) 0'26
Beaux Arts Brass Quintet
2 Brad Mehldau: She's Leaving Home 4'08
'Day is Done' Nonesuch 7559 79910-2 - TRACK 7
John Lennon/Paul McCartney - Sony/ATV tunes LLC/Beatles ASCAP
3 Prokofiev: 1 st mvt from Piano Sonata no 7 in B flat major op 83 8'18
'The Glenn Gould Edition: Chopin, Mendelssohn, Scriabin, Prokofiev'
Sony Classical SM2K52622 (2) - CD2 track 6
Glenn Gould, piano
4 Faure: 'Après un rêve (op7 no 1) 3'19
'Nightsongs'
DECCA 467697-2 - TRACK 3
Ren é e Fleming with Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
5 Schnittke: Psalm no.12 from 'Psalms of Repentance' 8'21 'Psalms of Repentance' ECM 4535132 (1) - Track 12
Swedish Radio Choir/Tõnu Kaljuste Schnittke/Universal Edition
6 Bellini - 'Casta Diva' from 'Norma' Act 1 5'32 'The Incomparable Callas'
EMI CDC7493932 (1) - TRACK 1
Maria Callas, Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Opera House, Milan conducted by Tullio Serafin (1961)
7 Messiaen: 'Par Lui tout a été fait' from Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant - Jésus
'Messiaen Vingt Regards, Aimard'
TELDEC 3984268682 - CD1 TRACK 6 10'53
Pierre Laurent Aimard - piano Messiaen/Durand
