Featured Artist 6: Ludovico Einaudi
 

[u]Featured Artist 6: Ludovico Einaudi[/u]

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Born in Turin, Italy on November 23rd 1955, Ludovico Einaudi was born into a wealthy family his grandfather was president of Italy and his father had built his own publishing empire. He first discovered the beauty of the piano after hearing his mother playing it as a child. This has still been an inspiration to him now.

Einaudi began his studies at home town with what he describes as “a very traditional teacher� before moving onto begin his formal training at Milan’s Conservatorio di Musica G.Verdi, where he earned diploma in composition, he then studied with the renowned Italian composer Luciano Berio.

Berio had spent a lot of time in America and had begun to create arrangements of Beatles songs and had created arrangements with African vocal music. All of this began to interest Einaudi and encourage him to think outside the strict rules usually associated with classical avant-garde music.

Einaudi’s creative career began with several chamber and orchestral compositions, which were performed at the most important international music institutions including the Tangle wood festival and Teatro Alla Scala.

During the eighties he began to explore various dance and multimedia works such as the critically acclaimed ‘Salgari’, this was a collaboration with the writer Andrea De Carlo, the choreographer Daniel Ezralow, and artist Jerome Sirlin. After his dance and multimedia work Einaudi began to focus on performing solo piano.

Einaudi has also created many film scores including Dr. Zhivago.

Ludovico Einaudi also has a huge love for music outside of the classical realm. He enjoys listening to bands such as The Yard birds, Pink Floyd and Genesis. Einaudi also enjoys playing a Bach arrangement of Lady Jayne by the Rolling Stones!! He also apparently plays the electric guitar.





[b]Discography[/b]

Here are the better known CDs by Einaudi there are several others that aren’t readily available which I haven’t included. (I also haven’t included the film scores or chamber pieces)

[u]Stanze (Rooms)[/u]

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This is his first truly acknowledged released, this is seen as a very minimalist piece of work.

[u]Le Onde (The Waves)[/u]

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This title Le Onde translates to The Waves. This album is based on Virginia Woolf’s book ‘The Waves’ which views the sea through different perspectives this is mirrored by the song titles on the album. This album contains one of the most famous Einaudi tracks, ‘Le Onde’ or ‘The Waves’ is the track that has been used on the recent John Lewis adverts as well as having extensive air play on classic fm radio.

[u]Eden Roc[/u]

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This album features other instruments such as a string quartet and even a guitar on the title track

[u]I Giorni (The Days)[/u]

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This album is apparently based and influenced on a 12th century African song about a hippo. A hunter mistakenly killed a hippo and the song was written as a lament. So the tracks on this album are related to this song.

[u]Echoes (Best Of)[/u]

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This is probably the best introduction to Einaudi’s work. It is a best of containing a wide range of Einaudi’s solo piano work.

[u]La Scala (Live)[/u]

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This is the latest release and is a live CD recorded at La Scala, Italy.


[u]Song Recommendations[/u]

As the songs can be found by both their English and Italian names I will put both

Le Onde (The Waves)
Eden Roc
Nefeli
Bella Notte (Beautiful Night)
Calm (Calmo)
I Giorni (The Days)


But for the best introduction just go out and buy ‘Echoes’ :)


Links

[url]www.ludovicoeinaudi.com[/url] – A great help writing this FA

Sorry It was a bit brief but I found it hard to find alot of information about him.


If anyone has trouble finding any songs just grab me on MSN and i'll be happy to send some :)

It's a good job, considering you can't speak Italian :)

I've only heard those three songs you've sent me, but they're great. Always surprises anyone around me when my music switches from death metal to classical piano.

You saw him live, didn't you?

Yeah I saw him live last year, it was an amazing concert even if i was one of the youngest people there. His improvisation work live in mind blowing.

awesome, man. bravo! :-)

Fantastic job Pete :thumb:


So, who's next.

OHHH, SHOTTY DOING THE NEXT ONE!!!!!!!


Good work Pete!

Nice job man, never really heard of this guy before.

If no one's doing the next one, I'd like to do one :)

I think Bread_man has the next one

[QUOTE=dans107]Nice job man, never really heard of this guy before.

If no one's doing the next one, I'd like to do one :)[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I reserved it, but since you are dan and you are cool, you can have it if you'd like.

Tremendous FA. Well done indeed.

Can I still do the next one?

EDIT: Can I eventually do another one? :p

[QUOTE=br3ad_man]Yeah, I reserved it, but since you are dan and you are cool, you can have it if you'd like.[/QUOTE]

Heh man, thanks a lot, but it's fine, you can do it :)

And Brycey....back off, big boy :evil:

[QUOTE=dans107]Heh man, thanks a lot, but it's fine, you can do it :)

And Brycey....back off, big boy :evil:[/QUOTE]
:naughty:

So I shall be third in line?

1 - lilpete
2 - dan
3 - brycey

?

Nice review, I've got one of his songs from a CD trade (From the Death head's thread, how about that? Thanks to Bartender.) I enjoy it alot.

By the way, to do the next FA you have to post in the previous person's FA. So right now, only Br3ad man is assured.

[QUOTE]By the way, to do the next FA you have to post in the previous person's FA. So right now, only Br3ad man is assured.[/QUOTE]

Took the words right out my mouth.

If I don't manage to get the next one, no problem :)

[QUOTE=Per Ardua Ad Astra]By the way, to do the next FA you have to post in the previous person's FA. So right now, only Br3ad man is assured.[/QUOTE]
Fair enough. :)

I love these FA's so hurry up bread_man i can't wait to see it


*drbunk*

Yeah, it should take me a couple of weeks. Or less.

Try to make it two weeks tops :)

I'll do it on Saturday. If I get Friday off school, I'll be doing it then.

Don't post it too early though.

When is too early?

I'd say give it 8-10 days.

I'm going to write it tomorrow, so I'll post it a week from Saturday.

I look forward to it :)

Ok, I've finished, I'll post it in a week. I just need to add a few more pictures. I hope it's good :(

Those of you who post at my forums will see it earlier :)

ooh, I'm just listening to the waves for the first time now.. I had it burnt to cd but didnt listen for some reason...
It's really nice and relaxing.
Good music to do marine science work to.

I can't believe I haven't seen this thread before.

I love Einaudi. I've been listening to his stuff for AGES (thank you classic fm) and while I only have 2 cds (Echoes and Eden Roc), I have the piano books for Eden Roc, I Giorni and Le Onde so I know all his piano stuff from those albums due to me playing them. The first song I ever heard by him was Nefeli, which is incredible, and my favourite is probably I Giorni

Finally another Einaudi fan :D


I got into him through classic fm as well :cool: