Ludovico Einaudi
Italian pianist and composerWikipedia
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Sep 13, 2026
Michael BerkeleyHOST
This year she won the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction for her first book, The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan, in which she explores the country's recent history through a story of Kabul's landmark Intercontinental Hotel, and a fascinating read it is too.
Michael BerkeleyHOST
Lyse, you brought us music by Elgar, Sibelius, Einaudi, but I think we're going to begin at the top of the tree with Bach.
Lyse DoucetGUEST
[laughs] Yes, and a most magnificent work by Bach, this soaring piece of music.
Lyse DoucetGUEST
It's one of Bach's earliest works, the Actus Tragicus, and it has defined so many of the places that I have ended up spending my time in as a BBC correspondent, which is the movement from an act of despair or death.
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Lyse DoucetGUEST
London is my home.
Lyse DoucetGUEST
Canada is my country, and I'm at home in many places.
Michael BerkeleyHOST
Your final piece is by Einaudi.
Michael BerkeleyHOST
Why did you choose this?
Holly RinglandGUEST
My imagination withers a little bit with that at the moment, I guess, in my writing process or stage or whatever.
Holly RinglandGUEST
I, when I wrote this in my office, it was me and Microsoft Word, and it was Moby's latest album, or Ludovico Einaudi, and it was just me and the music and the ideas, because if I let too much of the outside world in, it diluted how much I could focus on the inner world where the story lived.
John PurcellHOST
Okay, let's get on, because I want to get on this, and a point I think really a major character in this book is the landscape.
John PurcellHOST
The world beneath her feet is set in dull old England and then beautiful Queensland.
Michelle LynneGUEST
Yeah, so I play multiple concert programs for Candlelight Concerts.
Michelle LynneGUEST
They do Hans Zimmer, Einaudi, Adele, Coldplay, Imagine Dragons, a lot of pop stuff.
Michelle LynneGUEST
They also do Chopin, Mozart.
Michelle LynneGUEST
Wow.
Phil HarrisHOST
Yeah
Josh PheganHOST
... quite a lot, and when I've got the headphones on, I'll have some very light classical music or something like Ludovico Einaudi or whatever in the background and, like, you know, for the next 45 minutes I'm just doing that particular thing.
Josh PheganHOST
So there's nothing that could come at me.
Josh PheganHOST
Like, like genuinely I think the building could be burning around me and I wouldn't even know because I'm just so focused and wanting-
Ted ZornGUEST
I want to use them simply as examples of something larger, and that is music's extraordinary capacity to move us.
Ted ZornGUEST
One of my recent musical passions is a style described rather loosely as minimalist or neoclassical, and includes composers and musicians like Einaudi, Philip Glass, Max Richter, and many more.
Ted ZornGUEST
So it's this style of music that came to me immediately when I thought about doing this topic for this service, music that, for me, can sometimes engender a sense of reverence and really take my breath away.
Ted ZornGUEST
Now, I can't give you a sophisticated analysis of its harmonic structures, or frankly, even an unsophisticated one, but I can tell you what I experienced when I listened to a piece like Nouveau Les Bianques that Frank played for our prelude.
Ted ZornHOST
But as you can see, I put in a number of special requests today, and he came through with flying colors.
Ted ZornHOST
So for the postlude, another special request from me, which is Night Book, also by Ludovico Einaudi.
Ted ZornHOST
And I have this one on both my minimalist and instrumental energy playlists.
Ted ZornHOST
Frank.
KirstieHOST
Aw
BryonyHOST
... uh, to see Ludovico Einaudi play.
BryonyHOST
Um, lovely Italian pianist.
KirstieHOST
Mm.
Emile ChabalGUEST
Um, he can deliver on time.
Emile ChabalGUEST
All these things matter, and so there are a number of other collaborative projects after Past and Present, um, that he gets involved with, probably most famously, um, uh, the, the Storia del marxismo project, which is this History of Marxism, this multi-volume History of Marxism, um, uh, in Italian, uh, which is commissioned, uh, by the publisher Einaudi.
Emile ChabalGUEST
And they, um, are interested in trying to, um, showcase a sort of history of Marxism from the 19th century to the present, and they ask Hobsbawm to be one of the editors of this project.
Emile ChabalGUEST
And for various reasons, he ends up being the only editor of this project, uh, by the end of it, and so he's the one who sees it to, uh, completion.
Emile ChabalGUEST
And so there are a number of other collaborative projects after Past and Present, um, that he gets involved with.
Emile ChabalGUEST
Probably most famously, um, uh, the, the Storia del marxismo project, which is this History of Marxism, this multi-volume History of Marxism, um, uh, in Italian, uh, which is commissioned, uh, by the publisher Einaudi, and they, um, are interested in trying to, um, showcase a sort of history of Marxism from the 19th century to the present, and they ask Hobsbawm to be one of the editors of this project.
Emile ChabalGUEST
And for various reasons, he ends up being the only editor of this project, uh, by the end of it, and so he's the one who sees it to, uh, completion.
Emile ChabalGUEST
Um, and it's in Italian, all the volumes are published.
Bryan BellerGUEST
I was 13, you know.
Bryan BellerGUEST
You're just like, "Oh, this, this thing, I, I don't wanna be in the orchestra and play Einaudi and knock music for the rest of my life.
Bryan BellerGUEST
You know, I wanna play rock." And like, obviously the choice was gonna be electric and not upright.
Bryan BellerGUEST
It was, it was really that simple.