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Ludovico Einaudi: Tiny Desk Concert

Ludovico Einaudi

Ludovico Einaudi was on a North American tour, playing before audiences in the thousands, when he stopped by the NPR office to play a far more intimate setting: a Tiny Desk set. It’s the first tour for the Italian pianist and composer since the beginning of the pandemic, following the release of his 2022 album, Underwater. It’s an album that captures how many have felt in the pandemic — feeling underwater, or trapped in another world.

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Ludovico Einaudi

Ludovico Einaudi (1955) is an Italian neoclassical pianist and composer. Having studied composition in Milan and subsequently with Luciano Berio, he produced a number of chamber, orchestral and dance theatre works in the 1980s. In the mid-1990s, he started to write film soundtracks and released his solo debut album “Le Onde” (1996). Einaudi celebrated massive success with piano pieces that incorporated electronic influences, such as “I Giorni” (2001), “Nightbook” (2009), and “In A Time Lapse” (2013).

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