Brad Mehldau & Ian Bostridge - The Folly of Desire

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.

1. The Sick Rose
2. Leda and the Swan
3. Sonnet 147
4. Sonnet 75
5. Über die Verführung von Engeln
6. Ganymede I
7. Ganymede II
8. the boys i mean are not refined
9. Sailing to Byzantium
10. Night II
11. Lullaby

Strachey & Maschwitz
12. These Foolish Things

Mann & Hilliard
13. In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning

Cole Porter
14. Every Time We Say Goodbye

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
15. Nacht und Träume,