Underwater

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Wind Song’ is like a waltz, with a very melancholic character. But it has that sort of winter feel you have when the days are really windy and the wind takes away all the bad things of the past, cleaning the air for the future.” The past few weeks have told us more than we want to know about the relentlessly acclamatory optimism of powerful people for whom detail is a mere inconvenience. Like our new PM, the Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi is a populist who has no problem persuading audiences to come out and listen. Tonight’s concert is the first of seven sell-out evenings at the Barbican devoted to his work. And yet his message proves stubbornly empty, unmemorable and humourless – music patched together from cute melodic soundbites and occasional outbursts of bombast.

Throughout, Einaudi proved once again that he is a master of pace, with lengthy, repetitive sections whose difficulty is often underestimated. With metronome-like accuracy, his build-up towards the climax of each piece is purely cinematic. Experience: The Ludovico Einaudi Story, a new podcast mini-series, was also launched in 2021 starring celebrated filmmakers including multiple award-winning actor and director Russell Crowe (Gladiator), Oscar-winning director Chloe Zhao ( Nomadland), BAFTA-winning director and screenwriter Shane Meadows ( This is England), Academy Award winner Florian Zeller ( The Father), and multiple award-winning director Eric Toledano ( The Intouchables). The series explores what it is that makes Einaudi’s soothing minimalist compositions so perfect for these challenging times. UK tour dates March 2022 Flora’ has a chorale beginning—a Bach-like introduction that’s a homage to my years of studying his music. But at the same time, I didn’t think too much about that: The music came quite naturally to me. After the introduction, I added a second part that features a repeated chord progression that gets gradually louder and faster.”Jiménez, Elvira; Tellnes, Erlend (20 June 2016). "Ludovico Einaudi performs with 8 million voices to save the Arctic". greenpeace.org . Retrieved 21 January 2016.

In 2016, Einaudi participated in the Greenpeace campaign to save the Arctic. [16] [17] Solo releases [ edit ] After the multi-media-inspired Time Out in 1988, in 1992 he released Stanze, which he had composed for harp. The album was performed by Cecilia Chailly, one of the first musicians to use an electric harp. Einaudi released his first solo piano album, Le Onde, in 1996, under BMG. The album is based on the novel The Waves by British writer Virginia Woolf, and enjoyed mainstream success, particularly in Italy and the UK. [12] His 1999 followup, Eden Roc, was also released on BMG, with shorter pieces. For the project he collaborated with the Armenian duduk musician Djivan Gasparyan. [12]Ludovico Einaudi Announces New Album 'Cinema' ". udiscovermusic.com. 23 April 2021 . Retrieved 4 June 2021. a b c Sweeting, Adam (16 July 2012). "BT River of Music: Ludovico Einaudi interview for London 2012". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022 . Retrieved 12 January 2012. Experience: The Ludovico Einaudi Story, a new podcast mini-series, also launched in 2021 starring celebrated filmmakers including multiple award-winning actor and director Russell Crowe ( Gladiator), Oscar-winning director Chloe Zhao ( Nomadland), BAFTA-winning director and screenwriter Shane Meadows ( This is England), Academy Award winner Florian Zeller ( The Father), and multiple award-winning director Eric Toledano ( The Intouchables). The series explores what it is that makes Einaudi’s soothing minimalist compositions so perfect for these challenging times.

a b c d Minderovic, Zoran. "Ludovico Einaudi". Allmusic. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021 . Retrieved 12 January 2012. Ben Beaumont-Thomas. "Ludovico Einaudi review – a Thomas Kinkade painting in sound." The Guardian. 17 March 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2022. Einaudi was born in Turin, Piedmont. [4] His father, Giulio Einaudi, was a publisher [5] working with authors including Italo Calvino and Primo Levi, and founder of Giulio Einaudi Editore, [6] while his paternal grandfather, Luigi Einaudi, was President of Italy between 1948 and 1955. His mother, Renata Aldrovandi, played the piano to him as a child. [7] Her father, Waldo Aldrovandi, was a pianist, opera conductor, and composer who emigrated to Australia after World War II. [5] This would be a very beautiful piece to play on guitar. It has all the qualities of a ballad. I ended up with several versions of this piece and I didn’t know how to include them all. But then, I decided to take just two versions and put them together—the first part from one day, and a softer, more lyrical coda that I came up with on another day entirely. The title is very simple: The music came to me, rolling like a ball.” As a sometime fan of Einaudi’s work, I found Underwater strikingly different to listen to (as have others), and have been looking forward to considering the sheet music folio, which has recently been published by Chester Music / Hal Leonard, and is the subject of this review…This is very atmospheric. It almost doesn’t have a melody, as it’s very much based on the harmonies. But at the same time, in those harmonies, there are some hidden little melodies that come out. I like it because although it could be seen as an abstract piece, at the same time there’s a sort of fire inside that keeps your attention, that keeps the piece awake. And so, it never actually becomes an abstract, cold piece.” Underwater is Einaudi’s first full album of new solo piano music for two decades. The music was composed while the composer was isolated at his home in Italy. Working without any distractions or the usual commitments that come with his busy schedule, we are told that it is his manifesto for life, and a statement on a period during which the world around him was quiet and silent.

Featuring Einaudi's trademark melodies, the music was written whilst Ludovico was in isolation at his home in Italy. Working without any distractions or the usual commitments that come with his busy schedule, Einaudi said "I felt a sense of freedom to abandon myself and to let the music flow in a different way. I didn't have a filter between me and what came out of the piano. It felt very pure." Given the plain lucidity of these pieces, it is appropriate for them to be played with effortless restraint. And in most cases they are in any case easier to manage and shorter on paper than their most lionised predecessors in the Einaudi canon. The composer has also largely avoided the sizeable hand stretches that populate several of his earlier pieces. This piece is very lyrical to me—it feels very much like a song. And what I like about it is that it shares some of the moods of songs from the ’60s. There’s a balance in it between major and minor keys that gives it a melancholic feel, something that is always part of my DNA. It’s similar in mood to another piece on the album, ‘Natural Light.’ In fact, this one, ‘Natural Light,’ and ‘Indian Yellow’ all share the idea of light, which is connected with my passion for analog photography.”That’s insightful. I was actually inspired by Debussy for “Swordfish.” The playing technique is similar. But I’m not sure about its diversity from the rest of the album. To me, it doesn’t sound like an isolated composition; on the contrary, it adds a shade of color. The Book Thief" international trailer – "Life" – The Book Thief: Official Trailer #1 HD (2014), 20centuryfox on YouTube. BBC Music Magazine noted, “Einaudi’s last few albums have showcased him as something of a sonic visionary, creating thrilling aural tapestries in collaborative projects of varying scales.”