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Welcome SeaOwl (Bem-vindo :D)

One more portuguese that plays Einaudi. That's awesome. Which pieces have you already learned?

Welcome SeaOwl, maybe you can do a short introdcution of yourself in the " OT, Tell us about yourself " thread.

And thanks for the link! That's great!

Btw: Please, do not be offended by the word "uneducated". I know there are many people who know who Einaudi is. I only say that because, back in 2010, were just over 50 people in Olga Cadaval (Sintra, Portugal) to see his concert... the same concert he gave at the Royal Albert Hall which was sold out with 6,000 people attending.

ThePianistWay I have two books of Einaudi: “Islands” and “In a Time Lapse”. Now I’m working in Brothers.

CarlosCC I understand, and agree with you! We have a great offer (April: Perahia; Andsnes; Kocsis; Bronfman. May: Sokolov. June: Nyman)… but who knows? And sometimes we have a problem of divulgation, look for the FREE presentation of CFX by Rosado (Beethoven op.109, op.110, op.111) only three days before are presented. But back to Einaudi, the 22 march is near to sold out.

If Carlos never had told me (Carlos you are my heroe ahahah), I would never know Einaudi would present is newest album in Portugal. In fact, there the divulgation was one of the major problems, well... TVs prefer to announce Justin Bieber's newest concert lol We can't do much more.

But, from what I've seen, there will be a lot of people in the 22nd March concert, which is awesome! I can't believe it is this Friday night!! I'm so anxious.

I've 5 books of Einaudi: "The Best of", "Islands", "Nightbook", "Divenire" and "In a Time Lapse" which covers 85(!) unique pieces to work. I would say I have lots of sources for the next years.

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You will need to all write your reviews of the concert afterwards!

Ahahahah okay, I will try my best, but it's my first Einaudi Concert.

In the past there have been lists of Einaudi pieces in progressive order of difficulty from easiest to hardest(thanks to Monica, Euan, ...).

I have found these lists especially helpful.

How about posting an updated list in progressive order of difficulty including the pieces from Nightbook, Divenire and In a time lapse?


greets
Al

Hi searcherAl, and welcome to PW!

It's not easy... IMO the level of difficulty of a piece depends on what you can do in front of a piano. So, why don't you do a brief presentation of yourself telling your background and experience? That way, I'm sure it will be easier to help you.

Welcome, searcherAl!

Another caveat to such rankings is that they're fairly idiosyncratic. For example, Le Onde kicked my butt every time I tried to record it, even though technically it shouldn't be that hard at all, and others had much less difficulty with it. But I do remember us being able to arrive at some sort of consensus regarding difficulty, and I think ranking the new pieces could be an interesting project. I've got a deadline tonight so can't tackle it now, but I'll take a look at the new books tomorrow and offer a (highly subjective) opinion.

I would be quite interested to try it as well! How about we work out our rankings independently, and then compare our results without seeing ther others' answers beforehand?

I will just work the last three books for this - Nightbook, Divenire, Time Lapse. Sorry Una Mattina, maybe another time!

This is quite interesting. In my case, every new piece is always "hard", and it becomes easier over time.

But I think in order to get a reliable comparison we will have to indicate how long each one plays piano. Then we can find a scale (1 to 5?) Where 1 is "very easy" and 5 "very difficult."
We can also get some parameters such as: technical difficulties and difficulty in interpretation. Or others.

Something like this:
Name: CarlosCC
Experience: +3 years
Piece: -------
Comment: {what is the major tip to play it correctly? | where is the hard session? | etc}
Technical level: {1|2|3|4|5}
Interpretation level: {1|2|3|4|5}
Overall level: {1|2|3|4|5}

What do you think?

It's a good idea, Carlos, but I don't really have enough time to go through each piece like that.
I was just going to make a simple list - easiest to difficult (in my opinion of course, so it's only an unofficial list).
Maybe someone else could do a more in-depth analysis of the difficulties / challenges with each piece.

Euan, I wasn't mentioning all the pieces written by Einaudi...
I was talking about only the pieces that each one of us can play... I think that's a good way to share our impressions and experiences as performers.

Let's try!

Name: CarlosCC (Experience: 3 years)
Piece: Canzone Popolare (Francia 1500ca) - The Best of Ludovico Einaudi book
Comment: This is a very small (only 48 seconds!) and very easy piece; good for true-begginers. This piece is so small, but so engaging, that I was pushed to write an extension of it (ABF recital #28). Be aware to take the right sonority.
Technical level: 1
Interpretation level: 2
Overall level: 1.5

Hi CarlosCC,
concerning my person: I have switched from classical guitar, which I have been playing for more than thirty years, to piano some two years ago.

I'm learning the piano without teacher and only play for my private pleasure. So far this pleasure has taken me from Bach Inventions (1, 2, 8)to Metamorphosis 1, 2, Mad Rush by Ph. Glass to some Soler (R102, R115), to some Scarlatti (K203, K32, K517) and ... Ludovico Einaudi (Nefeli, I due fiumi, fuori dal mondo).
greets
Al

Monica,

Thank you for your welcome. Your videos have been a great inspiration for me, in fact I learnt pedalling from watching closely how you do it.


greets
Al

That would me most welcome Euan!

It is clear that in every ranking of this kind, there is undeniably quite a proportion of subjectivity but it would be of great help to all those Ludovico aficionados who study his pieces on their own, without the guidance of a teacher.

greets
Al

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