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Oh, break down and buy the darned book, super-hunky. Anybody who plays "Nefeli" 20 times a day will want to learn many if not most of the other pieces.

"Le Onde" has been my waterloo. I can play it, but not musically enough to feel ready to record it. I find it very difficult to accent the melody and just barely hit the alternating lower notes in the right hand. Not to mention it's too long to fit on the music desk, so there's clunky page turns. But I feel like rocky: "one of these days I will play that music!"

On the positive side, "Giorni Dispari" is coming along well and I think I'll have it recital ready.

Monica:

You really should perform Le Onde for us. I'm sure you are being way to critical of yourself however, Kawaigirl set the bar incredibly high on that piece with her performance of it....I mean.. !

I don't think I will ever perform that piece the way you two have performed yours as you are much more advanced than me plus I never really read the music so in this situation, I may be at a big disadvantage. (I will post up some more excuses as they come to me....don't worry!) .

Anyway, Monica, you are right. I need to get the giant Einaudi book as I don't have any of his scores other than Nefeli which someone was nice enough to give me as a gift! .

I believe someone had found it for $35.00 somewhere, I forgot, it may have been Rocky.

Any suggestions on where to get it and what it is called?.

BTW, Monica. As many times as I have played Nefeli now, it has not gotten any better than after the first couple of days!

I know this is weird, but I really don't improve much on a piece after a certain point.

It has goten a little "smoother" and I have it 100% memorized which is nice since my cat likes to sleep on my ever growing pile of sheet music.

I second that Right after saying I thought my "Giorni Dispari" was coming along well, I listened to Kawaigirl's recording, and... let's just say it's a good thing there's still a few weeks before the next recital.

I feel the same way with "Le Onde" as you do with "Nefeli." Even though I play it just about every day, it doesn't seem to be getting any better. Unfortunately, with this particular piece my plateau hit well before I felt satisfied with it.

Well, I'm not Monica but I'll answer anyway The book is "The Best of Ludovico Einaudi", MLR 659

I just got finished listening to Kawaigirl's "Le Onde" - just beautiful! I have "The Einaudi Collection" CD and have to say Kawaigirl's playing rivals that on the CD. I've been learning this piece and now have another (higher) standard to try and reach! Great job!

This was my latest attempt at 'In Un'Altra Vita' (In another life). I play it slightly different from the score:

http://www.box.net/public/nio9j2hi39

VERY nice Euan!.

You've been holding out on us have'nt you?.

Where is all this talent coming from?, First Monica, then Kawaigirl, and now Euan!.

Thats it, I'm firing up the Jetta diesel and heading out to Village inn or Denny's and ordering TWO large humble pies. One to eat there and one to take home for later. You guys are amazing.

Very Very nice Euan,!! You must have been practising in secrecy!! BRAVO! I enjoyed your slight variation to the piece.

kawaigirl,

Thank you for the new pieces. I use you as reference material so you can imagine how grateful I am

Mr S-H, I got the book at musicnotes.com, but I'm sure you can find it online many places, look for the best price!!

I still just play bits and pieces of a few songs from the book. It's definitely a bit out of my league, but it helps me to read along with the music while listening to the great performances like kawaigirl, euan and monica.

Nancy,

Here's another one for your CD that you're making.

Fuori dal mondo:

http://www.box.net/public/fatt7f5sa8


Txs guys for the wonderful comments.

Thanks so much, Kawaigirl. I think I'm up to nine pieces for the CD. Your work is really beautiful.

Has anyone recorded Limbo? I'm thinking that someone mentioned it as the easiest one, so it would be nice for her to try that to start.

No, Kawaigirl, I'm not planning to play any right away. I have so many piano projects going now that I can't make much progress on any of them. I am sure that I will hear an Einaudi piece--like I did with both Croatian Rhapsody and Rachmaninoff's C# minor prelude, both that I'm learning now--that I absolutely must play this very second. Then I will push something aside on my plate and do it. Right now Rachmaninoff hunts me down every day and drags me to the piano--he has hooked me like a drug, and it will be months before I finish that piece.

Mr. Super-Hunky--I found my "Best of" book at Amazon for $24.13. Of course, you get free shipping with any purchase over $25.00, so I bought another book so I could get "free" shipping. Capitalism at its most effective!

Nancy

Actually, kawaigirl, I've become a fan of YOURS!!
BRAVO, once more!

Daria

KawaiiGirl Thanks for sending those recordings. You inspired me to look up Einaudis' website! Euan and Monica had some lovely recodings too! I love learning about new beautiful music.

By the way in case you havent heard I have a new name. See other thread for ABF Group

Thanks Nancy:

I'm so cheap, if I know I did'nt get a good deal, it will keep me up at night!; thanks for the tip.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by NancyM333:

Has anyone recorded Limbo? I'm thinking that someone mentioned it as the easiest one, so it would be nice for her to try that to start.

Nancy [/QB][/QUOTE


Euan made a recording of Limbo in Recital #3. His link doesn't work but you can download the 2nd zip file and the piece will be found in there.

http://www.pianoworld.com/ubb/ubb/ultimatebb.php?/topic/32/2753.html#000021

Or, if that's too much work, here's a version of "Limbo" I recorded on my trusty Zoom for my Christmas CD:

"Limbo" by Ludovico Einaudi

p.s. I just noticed I really need to edit out some of that dead space at the beginning... there's about a 12 second pause before the music starts, sorry.

Nice Monica! Limbo That song sounds relaxing. And it doesn't sound like it would be too hard to play. I went ahead and ordered his greatest hit book from Amazon .

I really like Nefeli and Le Onde,,,,,,,,,,beautiful.
I am looking forward to getting the sheet music and seeing just how hard those pieces are to play.

O. K. You all made a convert out of me. I just ordered The Best of Ludovico Einaudi--paperback from Amazon.com. Came to $28.80 with the shipping and handling.
Had a real problem ordering it, as every time I sent it my basket, they kept including some other item with it for and additional $20.00. After a number of tries, I finally got the unwanted item out of my basket and just the book should be arriving.

Now to wait patiently for its arrival, sometime between Jan 19-23. Can't wait to play some of those gorgeous pieces. Gaby Tu