{"id":48092,"date":"2024-10-07T10:54:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T08:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/c5c41e11-458f-457d-8ae4-83e308bb5e13"},"modified":"2024-10-07T12:07:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T10:07:18","slug":"the-sad-family-story-behind-ludovico-einaudis-hotly-anticipated-new-album","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/the-sad-family-story-behind-ludovico-einaudis-hotly-anticipated-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"The sad family story behind Ludovico Einaudi&#8217;s hotly anticipated new album&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By <\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Monday, 07 October 2024 at 08:54 AM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Whether playing solo or creating a rich musical tapestry with talented instrumentalists, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/ludovico-einaudi\">Ludovico Einaudi<\/a> is an artist audiences flock to hear. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/articles\/what-post-classical-music\">post-classical<\/a> phenomenon celebrates 20 years with Decca next year and has just revealed details of his 17th studio album.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is Ludovico Einaudi\u2019s new album called?<\/h2><p>Ludovico Einaudi\u2019s new album is titled\u00a0<em>The Summer Portraiits<\/em>. It was initially inspired by a recent summer break at a villa on a Mediterranean island, where the composer came across a series of paintings created over several summers by a previous occupant. That led to Einaudi looking back on his own history of summers.<\/p><p>\u2018<em>I started to think of my summers, the time where my life was strictly connected with all my senses, where the days felt like months and months like years, and I was free from morning to night, and every day was a new discovery of life, and nature was a fundamental part of it. We were nature.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>(Ludovico Einaudi)<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/recordings\/ludovico-einaudi-best-albums\">Ludovico Einaudi&#8217;s top five albums&#8230;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/news\/einaudi-becomes-tiktoks-biggest-classical-composer\">Ludovico Einaudi becomes TikTok&#8217;s biggest classical composer&#8230;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who performs on Ludovico Einaudi\u2019s new album?<\/h2><p>As fans might expect, Ludovico Einaudi himself performs the piano elements of\u00a0<em>The Summer Portraits<\/em>. However, the album features baroque violin solos from Th\u00e9otime Langlois de Swarte, alongside the strings of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (under conductor Robert Ames) and Einaudi regulars Federico Mecozzi (violin\/viola), Redi Hasa (cello) and multi-instrumentalist Francesco Arcuri.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When is Ludovico Einaudi\u2019s new album out?<\/h2><p><em>The Summer Portraits<\/em>\u00a0is released by Decca on 31 January 2025, with a first single\u00a0<em>Rose Bay<\/em>\u00a0out now \u2013 along with a very special video, featuring footage from Ludovico Einaudi\u2019s childhood summers. <em>Rose Bay<\/em> is named for the Sydney suburb to where Einaudi&#8217;s estranged grandfather emigrated in the 1930s. <\/p><p>One of Italy&#8217;s top conductors in his day (indeed he played for Puccini), Wando Aldrovandi, refused to work under a fascist government and left for Australia. He would never see his family, including Einaudi&#8217;s mother (who was just 12 when he left), ever again. &#8216;<em>I grew up with the image of this person that I never saw,&#8217;\u00a0<\/em>Einaudi says.\u00a0<em>&#8216;My mother missed her father all her life. Music became a place where she could connect to him&#8221;.<\/em><\/p><p><em>Ludovico Einaudi&#8217;s single &#8216;Rose Bay&#8217; is out now, with the full album available on from 31 January on Decca Records and from wherever you enjoy your music.<\/em><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Published: Monday, 07 October 2024 at 08:54 AM Whether playing solo or creating a rich musical tapestry with talented instrumentalists, Ludovico Einaudi is an artist audiences flock to hear. The post-classical phenomenon celebrates 20 years with Decca next year and has just revealed details of his 17th studio album. What is Ludovico Einaudi\u2019s new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":48093,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/the-sad-family-story-behind-ludovico-einaudis-hotly-anticipated-new-album.png",1200,800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/the-sad-family-story-behind-ludovico-einaudis-hotly-anticipated-new-album-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/the-sad-family-story-behind-ludovico-einaudis-hotly-anticipated-new-album-300x200.png",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/the-sad-family-story-behind-ludovico-einaudis-hotly-anticipated-new-album-768x512.png",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/the-sad-family-story-behind-ludovico-einaudis-hotly-anticipated-new-album-1024x683.png",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/the-sad-family-story-behind-ludovico-einaudis-hotly-anticipated-new-album.png",1200,800,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/10\/the-sad-family-story-behind-ludovico-einaudis-hotly-anticipated-new-album.png",1200,800,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Published: Monday, 07 October 2024 at 08:54 AM Whether playing solo or creating a rich musical tapestry with talented instrumentalists, Ludovico Einaudi is an artist audiences flock to hear. The post-classical phenomenon celebrates 20 years with Decca next year and has just revealed details of his 17th studio album. What is Ludovico Einaudi\u2019s new&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/48092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}