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You should, though let me warn you that the pieces are downright HARD. I can (barely) play "Berlin Song" out of it, and Anthony's mastered "In Principio," but most of the others look dreadful. *sigh*

Well I decided to take an extended lunch break and walked to a music shop and got the book

To me (and I will probably live to regret saying this!), most of the pieces don't look worse than Divenire. There's a lot less of the '3 against 2' patterns which he seemed to use in almost every song on the previous album. As I'm not very good at that, I get stuck on all the pieces there.

But I haven't sat down at the piano yet, so I suppose everything looks ok at first until you start to play and find out just how difficult the notes actually are Can't wait to get home tonight and check out Berlin Song, Reverie, and Snow Prelude no.2

That's like saying the Dubai Tower is a tall building.

Yeah, I guess the pieces in Nightbook aren't "forever out of reach" hard, just "this will take a very long time to get down" hard, and I was hoping there'd be a couple of easier ones.

Berlin Song isn't that bad, actually; it just looks scary because of all the big chords. The hardest part for me is to play those big chords properly legato.

After buying the Nighbook sheets yesterday, it got me thinking. I usually get pretty excited when purchasing an Einaudi book - it's always going to keep my occupied on piano for the next however long.

But there is always one piece which (after listening to the album) makes me want the book even more - that I will be able to see the music and perhaps even play the piece before too long!

Best of Book: Melody Africana III. It would have been Le Onde, but I kinda got that sheet music prior from an illicit source
Una Mattina: Dietro Casa.
Divenire: Divenire. [Until I saw the actual music ]
Nightbook: Berlin Song. Not actually on the album, but whoa - what a beautiful piece of music!

Does anyone else have similar thoughts, and what are the standout pieces which you were looking forward to playing the most? I don't think it has to be your FAVOURITE piece, but the ones which encouraged you to buy the books.

I know what you mean about Berlin Song, Euan. Over in the Einaudi forum, they had a thread asking for one's all-time favorite Einaudi piece, and Berlin Song was in my top five. In fact, that's going to be (cross fingers here) my recital piece.

So... stand-out piece from each book... lessee...

Nightbook: Berlin Song, hands down.

Divenire: Divenire, by a long shot. One of these days I will play it at the temp it deserves to be played.

Un Mattina: Ancora

Best of: This is a tough one. It was the first Einaudi book I bought, and I ordered it impulsively almost literally after I heard the first piece of his... and I can't remember which one it was! But I think it was Nefeli. So I guess I should say that it was Nefeli that got me to buy the book, but looking back at it years later, I'd have to say that I due fiumi is the standout piece that means the most to me from it now.

sorry to ask again...

but what is the easiest compilation to order?

Hi apple*,

I think we are all pretty unanimous here that 'The Best of' book has the best and widest range of pieces in it - everything from the first 3cds. It starts with the easiest of his works. The newer albums/books are a bit more tricky to play. The book is published by Ricordi and has 176 pages.

The cover looks like this:
http://www.musicroom.com/se/ID_No/057565/details.html

Just a note, that 'The Best of' is considerably cheaper on Amazon that from musicroom (in Uk, it is £14.30 instead of £35.95 today)...

And the price on amazon.com (usa) is the same, so it's going cheap over there too!

Yeah, not sure why musicroom price is so high. I only used that site as an example for the cover picture, but when I glanced at the price I thought 'sheesh!'.

I bought his "Best of..." book, for about $17, and it has lots of great pieces in it. I'd recommend it.

I started working on Le Onde this month, with an eye toward playing it as a public recital piece June 4. Here's hoping five months is enough.

Today should be the US Release of "Nightbook" so if anyone uses iTunes it may be available there. Amazon has the Us version for around $15 but is listing it as on backorder today.

If anyone wants to confirm the iTunes availability they can go ahead as I'm in linux so have no access to the iTunes store at the moment.

Confirmed. $10.99 via iTunes.

What are the tracks on iTunes? I'm a bit curious what any bonus tracks might be.

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OK, so the iTunes version available in the US appears to be the same as the iTunes versions elsewhere as "Berlin Song" is available as well as the "Nightbook Solo" track at the end.

My actual imported CD didn't include Berlin Song so I went ahead and grabbed a copy of that track.

I just got an email announcement that "Berlin Song" is indeed the bonus track on the iTunes release, and amazon.com is offering "Tu Sei" as a free bonus track.

Also, the iTunes release includes sheet music for two tracks (the email didn't say which two).

Last, the email announced two (and only two, sigh) U.S. concert dates: March 13 in Santa Monica, CA, and March 15 in San Francisco. I can't make either of them.

Just got that email here. I don't see anything up on amazon.com regarding the mp3 version as of yet. (I'm going to assume that would be where the bonus track would be.)

I don't think the CD listed as the one from ponderosa (the imported "US" release) has an actual track listing on the page.

Just added this to the piano bar thread but I figured I should store a copy here as well.

In Principio from the Nightbook album.

Anthony, that was very nice. I like the minimalism of it and the beautiful chord changes. I need to look into this composer. It's a style of music I like very much. Lot's of people seem to like Einaudi here on the forum.

well, Here is my first Einaudi piece for this thread..I recorded awhile ago..http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pikUKfyleig

Bravo Augustina, very well played. And that was after just one day working on the piece - fantastic