‘I love your music’. Imagine Ludovico Einaudi’s emotion when he stood in front of Paul McCartney, one of his great idols, and the Liverpool sir expressed all his admiration for the maestro’s music. A very strong emotion for the pianist and composer from Turin, the most streamed classical musician in the world. An emotion that surely gave him an incredible energy to face a 2025 that, at first glance, promises to be packed.

by Luca Testoni

Preceded by the two stunning singles ‘Rose Bay’ and ‘Pathos’, his seventeenth debut album, ‘The Summer Portaits’, will be out on 31 January. Then, starting on 17 February, a long world tour will kick off with a sold-out show in Rotterdam. Sixty dates have been announced, that will touch Europe, Asia and America. Among the highlights are five consecutive concerts at London’s Royal Albert Hall between the end of June and early July. Never before has this happened to a classical pianist. And let’s not forget that in November there will be no shortage of surprise happenings to properly celebrate his ‘first’ 70 years…

‘The Summer Portaits’ does not disappoint expectations. His new instrumental compositions, where the intimate, the personal and the universal become one, give us a version of Einaudi that has never been so radiant and immediate.

This time, the cue came from a summer holiday spent on the island of Elba in a house decorated with amazing oil paintings: ‘Everyone has their own version of summer portraits,’ said the composer, whose various merits include introducing young people to classical and contemporary music. ‘Everyone has an album of summer memories, especially those spent as a child with their family. My album is a musical portrait of that endless and wonderful time for all of us’.

Now his ‘paintings in music’ – 13 in total -, if possible even richer and more varied than his more recent productions, but with an ever unmistakable impressionistic approach, are ready to be unveiled.

Recorded during his ‘never-ending tour’ and partly in London’s legendary Abbey Road Studios and in his home studio in Dogliani, in the Langhe region, Ludovico Einaudi, as well as availing himself of his team of trusted musicians (Federico Mecozzi on violin and viola; Redi Hasa on cello; and the multi-instrumentalist Francesco Arcuri), he featured on the new disc the French baroque violin virtuoso Theótime Langlois de Swartee and the strings of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Robert Ames.

Info & Tickets: https://ludovicoeinaudi.com/concerts/

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