One hundred years of Gabriel Fauré, on the piano of Brad Mehldau

One of today's great jazz musicians, the pianist Brad Mehldau, pays tribute to the composer Gabriel Fauré, one of the most influential French musicians of the 20th century who died in 1924, in the concert Après Fauré. The concert will take place on Thursday, 7 February.

The performance is part of the Jazz Barcelona Festival, and although it does not correspond to Mehldau's latest album (Solid Jackson; 2025), it is of more than special interest, as the 2024 work, Après Fauré, reviews the legacy of a singular composer who had a great influence on the music that was composed after him.

In fact, during the recital, Mehldau himself performs compositions by Fauré that have been passed through the jazz glass, but you will also hear many of his own compositions that are directly inspired by the works and creations of the composer of Pavana, Requiem, Siciliana, many nocturnes for piano and the songs Après un rêve and Clair de lune.

Mehldau himself considers that Fauré's importance has often been underestimated in comparison with the work of composers of his time such as Debussy, Ravel and his friend Camille Saint-Saëns. Here you will hear four nocturnes by Fauré combined with four of his own pieces (Prelude, Caprice, Nocturne and Vision), as well as an excerpt from Piano Quartet No. 2, in G major, opus 45, a music with dreamlike components that sounds mysterious and fascinating.

Contemporary pieces closely related to Fauré's arrival complete the programme, in which the composer and performer pays musical homage for about an hour and a half to a composer renowned for the elegance of his musical writing, the perfection of his form, his constant search for the utmost beauty and his unobjectionable melodies.

Do you want to know what Fauré sounds like through Brad Mehldau's keyboard? Then you have to come to L'Auditori, but first check the website.