Ian Bostridge, Brad Mehldau – Mehldau: The Folly of Desire (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Ian Bostridge, Brad Mehldau – Mehldau: The Folly of Desire (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:07:54 minutes | 2,26 GB | Genre: Classical
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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 schöne Müllerin (2020), Schwanengesang (2022) and Respighi Songs (2021) with the label.

Tracklist:
1-01. Ian Bostridge – The Folly of Desire: The Sick Rose (01:42)
1-02. Ian Bostridge – The Folly of Desire: Leda and the Swan (04:17)
1-03. Ian Bostridge – The Folly of Desire: Sonnet 147 (02:55)
1-04. Ian Bostridge – The Folly of Desire: Sonnet 75 (02:49)
1-05. Ian Bostridge – The Folly of Desire: Über die Verführung von Engeln (03:14)
1-06. Ian Bostridge – The Folly of Desire: Ganymede I (06:27)
1-07. Ian Bostridge – The Folly of Desire: Ganymede II (03:28)
1-08. Ian Bostridge – The Folly of Desire: the boys i mean are not refined (04:50)
1-09. Ian Bostridge – The Folly of Desire: Sailing to Byzantium (02:22)
1-10. Ian Bostridge – The Folly of Desire: Night II (06:41)
1-11. Ian Bostridge – The Folly of Desire: Lullaby (07:54)
1-12. Ian Bostridge – These foolish things (05:12)
1-13. Ian Bostridge – The wee small hours (03:08)
1-14. Ian Bostridge – Every time we say goodbye (05:05)
1-15. Ian Bostridge – Nacht & Träume (03:47)
1-16. Ian Bostridge – Night & Day (03:55)

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