AW2PP:

If you watch this Ombre video you should be able to see the sustain pedal being used. This is a pretty decent version of the piece it seems.

Audience noise is a bit distracting though.

Personally, I think the sheet music would look rather messy if there were pedal marks all over the place.

AWTPP - I'm not looking at the book, but I'm pretty sure I know which part you are talking about.

And yes - just use the sustain pedal, and the way Einaudi plays it, he plays the low notes and then makes a little pause before hitting the higher ones, which adds to the piece.

Thanks, everyone. I look forward to sitting down with this when I get home from work today.

Euan, you are missing one more feature on your haggis pitch. You left off "Good for what ails ya!"

Which leads me to my second question. The double duty you are talking about, unless I am horribly mistaken, is that the E is called for, simultaneously, in both clefs. Correct? The difficulty being that, in the middle of the LH supporting arp, that E has to be emphasized, since it is part of the melody.

Correct?

I think that's the one thing I have a bit of an issue with in my "I Due Fiumi" as well. Towards the bottom of the 2nd page I could likely use to separate the melody away from the bass notes a bit better.

I guess in measure 26 of Ombre there's an E in the melody and later on one in the bass arpeggio so I would assume you'd emphasize the first one but not really the second one. I'll have to give those measures a close listen in the recorded version later on today. I never noticed that the music was sharing those notes upon my rough glances at the piece. I would have quickly realized that upon trying to play it though.

Correct to both. I deal with it by playing that note with my right hand (to emphasize the melody) and skipping the left hand. But it's awkward.

Quick question - exactly how does one pronounce his name (IOW, how does he pronounce his name)?

Regards, JF

Hmm, my phonetics aren't exactly great but this is how they say his name on radio:

Ein (same as 'mine' but without the m)
Audi (same as 'howdy' but lose the h)

Just as a quick aside,

Somewhere in the world there is a rather special Einaudi album that according to the man himself "won't be getting promoted at all". It's only available on one website and it sounds incredible!

I won't say any more until I place my order (it needs a credit card and I've only just signed up for one). Hopefully in a month or so I will report back with cd in hand.

And whilst I've been exploring the world of Einaudi this morning, I found these two gems also:

http://www.box.net/index.php?rm=box_v2_mp3_player_shared&node=f_160339665
(a radio interview with Ludovico - contains a live solo piano version of Andare)

http://www.echoes.org/demora/EinaudiLRCbonus.ram
(more live radio pieces)

I think we've had both of those links on here in one form or another but it doesn't hurt for someone new to come along and see them.

And you must be talking about that "Live in Berlin" cd from the Divenire tour that was posted about on the Einauid forums. It does sound great, but maybe I'd have to stick that one on my Christmas list (Or birthday list.)

I'm quite a bit more interersted in Ludovico's replies to that thread mentioning he is working on a new album. He must have heard Monica complaining about him not writing music fast enough.

It will be interesting to see what he comes up with after Divenire. Maybe as long as there is some kind of USA leg to the tour, I won't care.

Ok, Anthony you caught me out! I was indeed referring to the 'Live in Berlin' album.

http://www.klassikradio-shop.de/musik/ludovico-einaudi-live-in-berlin.2306.html

In un'altra vita with strings sounds fantastic - I don't remember him playing that one at the concert I was at.

Seriously. He needs to come to the USA. At this point, I think I could talk my entire household into going, and these are folks who weren't piano fans prior to hearing his music.

I think the best way to advertise for any upcoming US tour would be to attempt to produce some kind of concert or special that could possibly air on PBS stations nationwide during a pledge drive or something like that.

If he could pull something like that off it would be a great way to get some exposure to the general US population. Getting US Classical stations to play something like Einaudi would seem difficult (most smaller markets with Classical stations seem to play mainly established older classical works.)

It would also seem to me that any US tour might end up being in the early spring/late fall into winter timeframe as Einaudi likes to do a lot of festivals during the summer months.

Thanks, Anthony, for saving me the effort of flying to Scotland to wring Euan's neck in an effort to obtain the info about the mystery Einaudi album. I am going to whip my credit card out posthaste and order one for myself.

The station manager at KFDC assured me that they were working hard to bring Einaudi back for a real concert "sometime this fall." If so, we'll make an AB forum spectacular out of it.

Aaargh - I knew this would happen. Please, no one else order a copy (until at least I order mine )!

Euan - thanks for the phonetic pronunciation clues - I was saying "Eee-naul-dee" (in my mind) with naul rhyming with haul - but if they pronounce it Eine-ow-dee on the radio it MUST be correct, right?

Regards, JF

Well, you're safe, Euan. I clicked on that website and it's all in German! So then I tried to rely on my 3 years of high school German to attempt to order the album anyway, but was flummoxed entirely when I got to the page where they wanted me to create an account. Guess I'll have to wait until it gets a wider release...

[gnashes teeth some more and curses her typical American monolinguism]

Here is what I did:

Benutzername - username (guessed)
Passwort - password
Wiederholen - i guessed that meant 'repeat password'

and that should create the account!

Well, since you have gone through all that effort, I'll be lazy... could you tell if they shipped out of the E.U.?

Oh, now that is a good point. I don't see USA in the list of countries when you input an address

I really wonder why Einaudi is slow to come to North America. Maybe it's because he may feel that his music won't be as popular in North America than the UK? I really hope that's not his reason.

There's a music of his called Luce that's in his Divenire book, but when I tried to hunt that piece of music down, it's only available via the itunes UK So, for us people in North America, we'll just have to wait. Sighhhh........

We could always consider kidnapping him or something. We would'nt really hurt him, we would just make him play nice music for us that's all!.

From what he said on the radio interviews, I think he wasn't working with a record label who was really trying to promote him in NA. (I could be wrong, but I'm sure that's the answer he gave when asked)

In the "1" thread a couple of weeks ago I wrote about playing the piano while a carpenter was working on my kitchen cabinets (I'm undergoing the Kitchen Renovation From Hell, but then again, ALL renovations stem from that locale...), and the carpenter was so taken by the Einaudi pieces I was playing that he asked me to write down his name and the titles.

So today the carpenter had to come back (don't ask :rolleyes: ), and the first thing he said was "I bought an album by that Einaudi guy you were playing and it is terrific!"

All Einaudi needs is a little more exposure here, and a nation of fans awaits.

Euan, your explanation makes a great deal of sense. It could also be the case that Einaudi has no trouble at all filling a very busy concert schedule with adoring fans from Europe and has no need or desire to travel so far. (Though if he could make it to Japan, you'd figure that Lexington, Kentucky, would not be out of reach! :p )

That's a great story Monica. The way I see it, Ludo owes you a finders fee of sorts!. It also speaks for your playing abilities in that contractors run out after work and hit........ the neo classical section of the record store (of all places) as opposed to the local bar!

That's got to count for
MORE than something! .

You see, if you just composed and performed your own beautiful melodies, we would'nt have to beg Ludo to come over here as we would have you. (although Einaudi's melodies are going to be real tough to beat).

Oh no Monica is now seranading carpenters...

It arrived....



Am just listening to it now - Le Onde with strings is better than I remembered. In'Un Altra Vita with strings works pretty good, and am now savouring a 14min version of Oltremare

(p.s. that isn't my finger in the picture, it's the arm of a string player!)

I'm glad you told us it wasn't your thumb, Euan! It sure looks like it.

So I finally broke down and joined what is only the second forum I've ever belonged to (yeah, you guessed it, the official Einaudi forum). And imagine my surprise when I encountered some familiar faces there. (AnthonyB and Always Wanted to Play Piano, to be exact.)

I think it's wonderful that every so often Einaudi himself will post something there. :3hearts: I must restrain myself from starting a thread begging him to come play Lexington, Kentucky, with promises of all sorts of, er, favors should he do so. :p

Favors? What favors?

I wouldn't recommend the exercise of favors.

If your ultimate objective is to persuade Mr. Einauldi to perform for you (pianistically speaking) and to do so at the peak of his skills, you would certainly want him to be well rested and refreshed. But favors are not particularly conducive to this physical state. To the contrary they are often exhausting, draining one of energy and even motivation.

For example, if the favor you had in mind was, say, joining you in a jogging session, or taking a tour of Lexington, or even just a visit to the UK campus, then these activities could be detrimental to your final objective.

Other favors - while not specified here - would certainly be equally deleterious and self-defeating.

With wanton & brazen regards, JF