Tulevaisuus

Mackenzie Melemed

Release Date: November 21, 2025

Mackenzie Melemed’s debut album Tulevaisuus (Finnish for “future”) pairs music that has shaped his artistry with new works by Laura Kaminsky, Stephen Hough, and Avner Dorman, each inspired by Bach, Liszt, or Brahms. Hough’s Prelude and Fugue (Aeolian) reimagines Bach’s B-flat minor Prelude and Fugue from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, weaving the letters of Melemed’s name into the fugue subject. Kaminsky’s Threnody…October 2024 offers a raw, urgent reflection on Liszt’s Funérailles. Dorman’s Lament and Variations, dedicated to the victims of the October 2023 attack in Israel, reflects on Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 9, moving from sorrow to resilience before finding peace in stillness. Rooted in the past yet alive in the present, Tulevaisuus explores how memory and tradition can shape the music of the future.

Special thanks to Ms. Kuniko Washio and William Scollard, as well as to the following donors: Mary Beth and David Alexander, Lynn Bernard, Alex Blakemore, Carol Butler, Robert and Virgil Chan, Bob Cundall, Vic Dhooge, Brian Feit, Susan Jacobs, Elise Jacques, Rich McNally and Kelly Lizotte, The Rains Family, Lou and Jil Valerio, and John Wohlstetter.

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TRACK LIST

Johann Sebastian Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Prelude and Fugue No.22 in B-Flat Minor, BWV 867
I. Prelude, II. Fugue

Stephen Hough - Prelude and Fugue (Aeolian)
I. Prelude. Maestoso energico
II. Fugue. Allegro molto ritmico

Franz Liszt - Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173
VII. Funérailles

Laura Kaminsky - Threnody…October 2024

Johannes Brahms - Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op.9
Thema
Var. 1, L'istesso tempo
Var. 2, Poco più moto
Var. 3, Tempo di tema
Var. 4, Poco più moto
Var. 5, Allegro capriccioso
Var. 6, Allegro
Var. 7, Andante
Var. 8, Andante
Var. 9, Schnell
Var. 10, Poco adagio
Var. 11, Un poco più animato
Var. 12, Allegretto, poco scherzando - Allegro
Var. 13, Non troppo presto
Var. 14, Andante
Var. 15, Poco adagio
Var. 16, Adagio

Avner Dorman - Lament and Variations