Mehldau, Brad - Fantasy & Reveries

Fantasy & Reveries is Brad Mehldau’s recording of his solo compositions, Fantasy for Piano and Fourteen Reveries.

Originally commissioned by Jeremy Denk, Fantasy for Piano was written in the same period as Mehldau’s Three Pieces after Bach. Fourteen Reveries, similarly to the composer’s Suite: April 2020, comprises a collection of shorter pieces.

“Fantasy for Piano... shares similar obsessions with Three Pieces After Bach: long, extended pedal-points, sharp juxtapositions between triadic consonance and extreme dissonance, and a freely subdivided 7/4 meter,” Mehldau says in his liner note. “It is written very densely, and the challenge is often to convey the melodic storyline within a very thick texture.