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Variations on a Melancholy Theme by Mehldau, Brad & Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (CD, 2021)

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Product Identifiers

Record LabelNonesuch, Nns

UPC0075597916508

eBay Product ID (ePID)3048611073

Product Key Features

Release Year2021

FormatCD

GenreJazz

ArtistMehldau, Brad & Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Release TitleVariations on a Melancholy Theme

Dimensions

Item Height0.36 in

Item Weight0.08 lb

Item Length5.14 in

Item Width4.25 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Notes2021 release. The recording features the pianist/composer and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, who 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, "Variations 'X' and 'Y.'" (Mehldau originally composed Variations on a Melancholy Theme for pianist Kirill Gerstein.) Mehldau and Orpheus toured Europe, Russia, and the US with the piece, including a 2013 performance at Carnegie Hall. Speaking to the combination of classical form with jazz harmonies in the work's musical language, Mehldau wrote, "I imagine it as if Brahms woke up one day and had the blues."Mehldau continues, "The 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."