Le Onde - Ludovico Einaudi

...may already be familiar with Le Onde, even if you don't realise it. Remember that wonderful piano music on the advert for the John Lewis Autumn collection? It sounded like a musical version of a wave, rising and falling, louder and quieter. It was shown last year and I did see it a couple of times this year too. Well that music was the key theme of Le Onde – which means ‘The Wave’ in Italian. I first heard Le Onde a few years ago on the Classic ...
...theme running through them. Le Onde was written in 1996 by the Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi. He says that he was inspired by Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves, and writes, “I was really intrigued by the form of the novel, which is very complex and interesting because some parts are written in italics and others in normal text. The parts in italics are like a cadence running through the book. The book is a description of what people see during ...

Jaycey 10.11.2004 · Read full review
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Le Onde is a CD of music written and played by Ludovico Einaudi. His phenomenal CD sales and ability to sell out major concert halls worldwide are confirmation that Einaudi is one of classical music's success stories of recent years. After studying at the Conservatory in Milan, and subsequently with Berio, he spent several years composing in traditional forms. In the mid-1980s he began to search for a more personal expression in a series of works ...
...inspired by a book called Le Onde and the music is supposed to represent different parts of this book. I don't know very much about the book and so don't know how well the music depicts the book but even without that the music is still absolutely amazing to listen to. Tracks on this CD include: 1. Canzone Popular - This is a short melody which dates from around 1500 and has been changed in places by Einaudi. It is a good enough track and serves ...

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Review of Le Onde - Ludovico Einaudi

When listening to Ludovico Einaudi's Le Onde my emotions were flung around like a child on a roller coaster ride. Just as you think your spirit could go no higher your inner soul is tossed out like a wave being thrashed against the rocks by the sea. Calmly your mind settles as the play begins to mellow gently the music deepens and as I gently breath a breath into my lungs my mind becomes full of elation. From within Ludovico's mind’s eye to his fingers ...

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