Ludovico Einaudi is keen to point out that he has a special association with Leeds. The Italian pianist and composer, who is the world’s most streamed classical artist, made his UK debut as a solo performer in the city.
“I played in a church,” the 67-year-old tells The Yorkshire Post on the phone from his home in Piedmont. While he might not recall its name – “It was many years ago” – he says he has “very good memories of that concert”. On Saturday, he will return to the city, to perform in the considerably larger setting of the First Direct Arena, and he’s looking forward to it. “I’m very happy to come back – in a different place, of course; I have a very emotional connection with Leeds,” he says.
” With projects such as Cloudland, Nightbook, and In a Time Lapse, Einaudi found new ways of presenting piano music before 2015’s Elements took him out of traditional concert halls and into pop arenas. He says that came as a surprise. “It was not in my artistic plan to play in such big spaces like arenas,” he says. “I remember at the arena in Verona and the Waldbuhne in Berlin, it’s open air with 22,000 people, I didn’t know how it might have been.
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