This evening's concert by Brad Mehldau at the Martinskirche in Basel was unamplified solo piano. The highlight of the first set, which featured material from his 2023 album "After Fauré", based on compositions by Gabriel Fauré, was a passage in which the overtones of the piano began to ring through the church. In the second set, the opener was a gorgeous rendition of the Steve Winwood song "Can't Find My Way Home" from the 1969 album by Blind Faith. Later, in what Mehldau announced as "variations on the Golberg Variations", he took Johann Sebastian Bach into stride piano and blues riffing. Mehldau returns to the Martinskirche with a different program tomorrow. (Andrew Shields, #111words, 14 February 2025)
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