Okay, now we just have to have an Einaudi recital!.

I agree! That'd be fun if we had an all Einaudi recital, I'm sure there would be other submittals besides Le Onde. Monica & Kawai Girl could resubmit their excellent past recordings in addition to Le Onde.

I'm very close to doing a recording of "Giorni Dispari," which I may hang onto long enough to submit for the next regular recital. But if we have an all-Einaudi lovefest before then, I could be talked into submitting it earlier.

Babs1, I love the African Melody III. But the sheet music for it looked too intimidating, so I'm going to tackle some of the other pieces first. I think I'm going to try "Exit" next, actually.

Hello mwf,


I believe alot of members here use the Audacity software to do their recordings which is a free software. I have a mac laptop so it came with a recording software called "Garageband'. The digital which I bought recently has a USB connection which I connect directly into the laptop. Then I go into Garageband and press that "RED DOT" and record. I'm not very technologically advanced when it comes to recording, so that's about all I do when it comes to making a recording. Once the recording is done I then share the file to i-tunes which automatically converts to MP3 format. From there, you upload the Mp3 file to box.net and then paste the link to your post.

I don't know if this is useful information for you or not since most people own a PC and not a MAC.

Actualy S-H, I tend to look forward to hearing other people playing the same piece because everyone will add their own style to the piece which makes it that much more interesting to listen to. Take your version of Nefeli for example. You added your own improvisation to the piece which I thought was fantastic.


Hey, I think S-H's idea of having an Einaudi recital is great! I'm in.

LOL, Babs, hmmm, if where you live is a nice and warm with bright sunshine, I won't mind being your neighbour since where I live it's snowy and miserable right now.

Thanks Kawaigirl, my piano is a clavinova so it has everything as far as recording/hooking up to a computer is concerned, mine too has a USB to host port and midi ports (which I dont have to use so I have heard), so it should all work-just have to get down to doing it. I will be using a lap-top/PC so its alot easier because of its mobility factor, I can move the computer to the piano instead of the almost impossible opposite as it weighs 100KG-up the stairs!! to the PC, I dont think so.

Kawaigirl, are your recordings we can hear on box.net the actual original sounds/expressivness that you played on your piano? Is there any loss of sound quality or expressivness when converting to MIDI-I presume thats what you change the data to, to begin with-MIDI, then finally MP3.

Thanks

Wow Einaudi is very popular here. I must say I'm sucked in by his tranquil music as well. I just ordered the Best of Einaudi, but Amazon isn't shipping it til the end of March

I absoulutely loved it Kawaigirl, thank you.
Einaudi is performing tonight at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, 25 minutes away from me.
Recently found out via Euan. But, I had to work, I would have loved to have gone to the concert. Thanks again for sharing, you sound so professional, do you do public performances? I'd pay to come to see and hear you. Shey

Ouch! But you can listen to Kawaigirl's recordings in the meantime... she's practically a "best of Einaudi" herself!

btw, welcome to the forum, kyon4lyfe!

Yes, both Monica and Kawaigirl are the Einaudi pro's with Euan ready to burst through at any time.

Kawaigirl, you must submit a recording in the upcoming "piano style show" (for lack of any other name). If you don't, you will be in lots of trouble, I mean all kinds of trouble so please do and avoid all the penalties.

I don't think there's any loss of sound quality when coverting to MP3 as it sounds the same to me. But I would think that anybody who's a pro in this area might say otherwise.

....uh oh.....I better roll up my sleeve as of yesterday and start practising...lol


ohhh BTW....for anyone who's interested....Einaudi has a new music book ...it's sheet music from his new CD-Divenire. I've already ordered through musicroom.com.

Euan, mwf, shey, Babs, greg, come on and sign up for the "Neo classical" group please. We need some more on our team!. Thanks Kawaigirl, you had me worried for a moment there.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Hi, May I join in on this thread? I am amazed at how much one can learn from all of you. I just happened to stumble upon this thread and was introduced to a wonderful composer. Watched the video and listened to you play Monica, Brilliant! You're right Mr. Hunkey, The music is addicting and beautiful. I must get the work and begin to play. I am an Italian American and anyone who comes from the mother country is bellissimo!

Ringraziarla molto per quest'opportunita meravigliosa di imparare di un compositore nuovo ed ascoltare la sua musica. Lei e tutti i pianisti meravigliosi!

Nicolo

Welcome to the thread, vogel54!

(and I hope you realize that you will soon be getting asked to translate all the Italian song titles on his albums now )

Hi Vogel54,

Of course you can join the thread! Even better, is if you can contribute a recording to it! Even if you can't, we're all Einaudi fans here and one more is always welcome.

ohhh BTW....for anyone who's interested....Einaudi has a new music book ...it's sheet music from his new CD-Divenire. I've already ordered through musicroom.com. [/b]
Thanks for the pointer, I'm going to place an order in a few minutes!

Hi Greg and Euan!

Thanks for the welcome! Wow I was hooked right from the start! Beautiful music! I haven't seen his compositions yet. His work seems like it might not be too difficult to play. Have you seen any of his work?

Nick

I've not read the thread yet but I'm headed over there now. Hmm.. Neo classical.. Team... What would the team name be?

Well, I'm not Greg or Euan, but I'll answer anyway. If you wade through all 9 or 10 pages of this thread, you'll see we discuss at various points the relative difficulty of his music. The big "best of" sheet music collection is allegedly ordered in terms of difficulty, but most of us have serious objections to some of that ordering.

But at any rate, there's at least a few Einaudi pieces that aren't really that hard at all, e.g., Limbo, Un Monde Aparte, Nefeli. There's recordings of all those posted here in the thread.

Kawaigirl, thanks for alerting me to the new sheet music collection. I am breaking my vow of sheet music abstinence to order it right this very second!

Hi Vogel54:

Any fan of Einaudi is a friend of mine. Welcome!

I have the 'Diviniere' cd, bought it last week from amazon-its fantastico, I am about to start learning the stunning title track by ear, even though I can buy the score, I want to save money

I highly recommend this album BTW, its IMO much better overall than 'Una Mattina', the ipod loops/reverse piano loops and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic add an extra rich texture to Einaudi's music, its going in a new more dynamic direction, proving stunning/exciting results in his wonderful new album.

Welcome Vogel54

Hope you will play something for us to hear.

Argh! Somebody beat me with a whip! When it's perfect, I ain't recording and when I'm recording, it ain't perfect:

In Un Altra Vita (take 2) alas, still not where it should be.

http://www.box.net/public/j7ibns31jb

For comparison, here's my initial simplified arrangement (take 1).

http://www.box.net/public/ciq79975gb

take 1 took 3 weeks to learn, I can't believe it took me 2 months just to add back the notes to that central section for take 2. Please somebody tell me they can hear the difference so as to prevent my imminent suicide.

Hey Sid,

Great job with the piece! Take 2 was definitely much fuller sounding, so yes, there's a difference between the 2 takes.

I decided to be a copycat and I went ahead and ordered his new cd-Divenire and the sheet music book ! It is going to take at least 3 weeks to get it, I am soooooooo bad I told myself I wasn't going to order anymore music!!!!You guys are a bad influence! :p

Vogel Welcome and C7 and MWF too. !

I am still working on a couple of Nueve pieces that I need to get polished away.However, I am also enjoying Einauldi music as well. I have attemped to play a few of his pieces,like Nefeli and Limbo . I really like the Nefeli, it's just a matter of smoothing out those appregios , it's going to take alot more practice. His music is so expressive and you really have to have the right touch because it affects the melody.

I attempted Le Onde but I had a hard time getting the melody to sound the way it is sopposed to, it's funny I thought it would be easier than Nefeli but it is actually harder, I am going to put that song aside for awhile.

SH I went ahead on that other thread and signed up
for the neo classical group.

Monica, what CD is the song Exit on? Is it in the Best of Ludovico Einaudu musicbook?

I have also worked on La Linea Scura. I like that piece, when I play that CD I put that song on low and I meditate to it and sometimes I do my yoga to it too, I can only play it to measure 32 too and then I get stuck! Maybe one of these days I will be able to figure out how to play that song all the way through and do my yoga at the same time won't that be something?

That's great Babs that you're getting into Einaudi's music

Sid that was lovely!!! I enjoyed it, what a beautiful song, one of my favorites.

That is not an easy dong to play either, I have never tried that song , it is in my book and I just checked out the music and it would be a challenge for me. By the way I thought the 2nd take sounded like a better recording .

Exit is off Eden Roc, I think.