CD: Après Fauré

On "After Fauré", Mehldau plays four preludes from a period of thirty-seven years in Gabriel Fauré's oeuvre as well as an abridged excerpt from the Adagio of his Piano Quartet in G minor. Here, four of Mehldau's compositions inspired by Fauré are presented as a group, supplemented by two sections of works by the French composer.
Of the album Après Fauré, Mehldau writes: "If the sublime gives us a foretaste of our mortality, then this music could convey the severity of death - the death of Fauré as he approached it, but also the foreboding of our own. Finally, we feel a kinship with the composer in the question he threw into the future, to us. I have composed four pieces to accompany Fauré's music here and to share with you, the listeners, the way in which I have engaged with Fauré's question."