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Ludovico Einaudi

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Forlisteners curious about contemporary/neo-classical piano and ambient crossover, including both fans and skeptics.
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The Profile

Ludovico Einaudi is an Italian composer and pianist associated in these reviews with minimalist/ambient-leaning piano music, soundtrack work, and occasional collaborations.

From the reviews: he is described as the son of publisher Giulio Einaudi and the nephew of Italian President Luigi Einaudi; his debut is stated as the 1988 album "Time Out"; "Stanze" (1992) is composed for electric harp and performed by Cecilia Chailly; "Fuori dal mondo" (1999) is presented as a soundtrack for Giuseppe Piccioni’s film; "Seven days walking: day two" is said to be released in 2019.

Across these reviews, Einaudi comes off as a polarizing figure: for some, a master of delicate melancholy and meditative minimalism; for others, a highly marketed, repetitive, derivative composer. Specific albums are described as emotionally powerful ("I Giorni", "Una Mattina", "Le Onde") and even "demanding" in his early experimental phase ("Time Out"). There’s also attention to collaborations ("Diario Mali") and soundtrack breadth ("Fuori dal mondo").

Notable Quotes

“Diary Mali is the story of a journey. Two friends speaking different languages meet in the desert and through music exchange their worlds under the shade of a henna tree.”
I will surely be a dissenting voice here, but Ludovico Einaudi's music has always seemed to me like an artfully constructed phenomenon, amplified in every possible way and essentially self-referential.
Ludovico Einaudi is a nepotist. Son of publisher Giulio Einaudi, nephew of former President of the Republic Luigi Einaudi.
More than a concert... a meditative exercise… marked by slowly arriving sounds… reminiscent of solitary trances and devoid of foreign ears…
Let yourself be cradled.
"Time Out" by Ludovico Einaudi was released in 1988 and marks his musical debut: a bold and courageous debut, as we are faced with a record of pure experimentation, consisting of noises and notes hinted at by various instruments and little more (following the lesson of that musical revolutionary, John Cage, in the 1960s).
"Una Mattina" is a collection of piano studies by Ludovico Einaudi.
"If it were a story, it would be set on the waterfront of an endless beach. A beach with no beginning and no end. The story of a man walking along this shore, perhaps never meeting anyone. His gaze lingers now and then to observe some object or fragment brought by the sea, the tracks of a crab, a solitary seagull. The landscape is always the sand, the sky, a few clouds, the sea. Only the waves change, always the same and always different, smaller, larger, shorter, longer." Ludovico Einaudi

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