★★★★★
alento in southern Italy is famous for festival, dedicated to the hypnotic local dance music that is said to cure tarantula spider bites. When composer and pianist took over as director, he expanded the range to include music from North Africa and Turkey, and the result is this intriguing album in which he is joined by guitarist Justin Adams and exponent from Juju and Robert Plant's band, plus Malian kora player Ballaké Sissoko, Turkish electronics exponent , and local musicians including most...
- www.theguardian.com
2015-05-01
★★★★★
Ludovico Einaudi is possibly one of the world's most popular composers, although you may not be familiar with his name, you will very likely have come across this Italian's beautiful compositions at some point - either through films, TV, or ads. But if you are unfamiliar, then 'Islands' is a good place to start, a compilation of his works. And what will you get...
- www.thecmuwebsite.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Not only has Ludovico Einaudi attracted a worldwide audience over the last decade, but he's also amassed a body of work that almost defies category. His first solo release, Stanze (which he composed, but didn't play on), straddled ambient soundscape and classical music performed on an electric harp. Since then, he's broadened his output, ranging from music inspired by Africa to working with a full orchestra, while his early career saw him providing scores for theatre and film...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi will already be familiar to people who have heard his scores for such productions as This Is England '86 and Black Swan, as well as being a permanent play list fixture on radio stations such as Classic FM. Einaudi's glorious compositions, with their fluid arpeggios and minimalist arrangements, are that rare breed of "classical music" that will appeal to anyone; they are like sunsets, quiet beaches, a forest walk after a rainstorm...
- www.themusicfix.co.uk
2011-06-27
★★★★★
Ludovico Einaudi is a minimalist Italian composer, often associated with film music, who has enlivened his style with electronic effects drawn from the worlds of techno and ambient music. The combination has proven commercially potent in Europe, and given the attraction of Steve Reich and the other minimalists among aficionados of electronic music on the pop side, it is surprising more composers haven't explored the combination...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
'A night-time landscape. A garden faintly visible under the dull glow of the night sky. A few stars dotting the darkness above, shadows of the trees all around. Light shining from a window behind me. What I can see is familiar, but it seems alien at the same time. It's like a dream -- anything may happen.' This is how composer Ludovico Einaudi describes his latest release, Nightbook...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Solo piano music, composed and performed by Ludovico Einaudi, in a romantic/minimalistic style. "The inspiration for Ludovico Einaudi's I Giorni was a 12th-century folk song from Mali about a hippopotamus who was cherished by the residents of a nearby village but killed by a hunter. 'The song,' writes Einaudi in his succinct liner note, 'is sung as a lament for the death of a king or a great person or for the loss of a loved one...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2009-06-07
★★★★★
Solo piano music, composed and performed by Ludovico Einaudi, in a romantic/minimalistic style. "The inspiration for Ludovico Einaudi's I Giorni was a 12th-century folk song from Mali about a hippopotamus who was cherished by the residents of a nearby village but killed by a hunter. 'The song,' writes Einaudi in his succinct liner note, 'is sung as a lament for the death of a king or a great person or for the loss of a loved one...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2008-11-24
★★★★★
Solo piano music, composed and performed by Ludovico Einaudi, in a romantic/minimalistic style. "The inspiration for Ludovico Einaudi's I Giorni was a 12th-century folk song from Mali about a hippopotamus who was cherished by the residents of a nearby village but killed by a hunter. 'The song,' writes Einaudi in his succinct liner note, 'is sung as a lament for the death of a king or a great person or for the loss of a loved one...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2008-11-17
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