Ludovico Einaudi releases new album, ‘Cold Wind’ video and UK tour dates

Groundbreaking composer and pianist Ludovico Einaudi, one of the most successful musicians on the planet, today releases his 14th studio album, ‘Seven Days Walking: Day One’, the first of seven albums to be released over seven consecutive months, on Decca Records.

Einaudi also unveils the video for his beautiful first single ‘Cold Wind’:



Also announced are the musician’s UK Tour dates, which take him to seven cities across the UK, including a whole week’s series of concerts at the Barbican in London.

‘Seven Days Walking’ is Einaudi’s most ambitious project of his 30-year career and the first of its kind for any classical artist. After today’s release, ‘Seven Days Walking: Day Two’ will follow a month later. Each ‘day’ will then be released, digitally, a month apart, leading up to ‘Day Seven’ which will be released in the autumn in a box-set of the complete Seven Days.

Inspiration for the entire project derived from walks that Einaudi would take through the mountains in winter. He explains, "In January last year I often went for long walks in the mountains, always following more or less the same trail. It snowed heavily, and my thoughts roamed free inside the storm, where all shapes, stripped bare by the cold, lost their contours and colours. Perhaps that feeling of extreme essence was the origin of this album."

The first album, which interweaves piano and strings in his unmistakable style, focuses on several main themes, which then recur in different forms on the following albums – seven variations following the same imaginary itinerary. Or the same itinerary, retraced at seven different times.

Elaborating further, the composer says “In the end I decided to thread them all together in a sort of musical labyrinth, a little like stepping inside the twists and turns of the creative process, to understand how a musical idea can develop in multiple directions, and changing once again at the moment in which it is heard."

‘Seven Days Walking’ was recorded between September and October of last year in Schloss Elmau, Germany and London’s Air Studios, and features the highly talented Federico Mecozzi on violin and viola and Redi Hasa on cello, alongside Ludovico himself on piano.

Einaudi, whose unique musical style is renowned around the world, repeatedly tops the classical charts globally with his hauntingly beautiful and evocative music. With over 1 million streams a day the pianist has clocked up a staggering 2 billion streams, making him the biggest streamed classical artist of all time. Einaudi’s last album, ‘Elements’, released in 2015, saw him become the first classical composer in over 20 years to reach the Top 15 of the Official UK Album Charts.

Einaudi will also be playing two live shows at London’s Union Chapel on 28th and 29th March (which sold out in record time once again), before returning to the UK for the Barbican series in the summer and full tour in October, which are part of an extensive global tour.

‘SEVEN DAYS WALKING: DAY ONE’ is released TODAY on DECCA RECORDS

LIVE SHOWS
28 & 29 March Union Chapel, London
31 July – 4 August Barbican, London

UK TOUR
12 October Symphony Hall, Birmingham
13 October Brighton Dome, Brighton
28 October Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool
29 October Usher Hall, Edinburgh
30 October SEC Armadillo, Glasgow
2 November Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham