Brad Mehldau & Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - Vari...
Released 11th June 2021.
The recording of Brad Mehldau’s Variations on a Melancholy Theme featur...
Released 11th June 2021.
The recording of Brad Mehldau’s Variations on a Melancholy Theme 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 th...