Pay attention to the main theme at 0:38, though it recurs throughout the piece. Now compare:
Pay attention to the intro...
Maybe it's me, but the resemblence is uncanny.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Contemporary Influences in "Classical" music?
So I had been listening to KDFC (the Bay Area classical station) for a little bit and they introduced me to a modern Italian composer named Ludovico Einaudi. Einaudi's compositional style actually reminds me a little of George Winston, who I don't really construe as "classical", but since the station thinks it is (I guess he does more chamber stuff?) we call it that. Einaudi does all forms of composition but I think primarily does piano stuff with maybe some strings on the side. When I first heard a Ludovico Einaudi song though, I was reminded not of classical, but of a rather modern pop song... Perhaps Einaudi enjoys listening to that sort of thing...? Dunno. You see for yourself.
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Enjoyed how you connected Seal to Einaudi. By the way, here at KDFC, the not-quite-classical Einaudi has been our biggest-selling CD for the last two years. Very popular.
As for the music that has influenced him, we asked Einaudi for his picks -- and there's not a classical piece on the list:
The Who - Baba O'Riley
Portishead - Silence
Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary
Nathan Fake - The Sky was Pink
Ali Farka Tourè - Roucky
Radiohead - Faust Arp
Prince - Sign 'O' the Times
Eminem - Lose Yourself
U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name
PJ Harvey : When Under Ether
The Velvet Underground & Nico - Venus in Furs
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