Essential Einaudi: Islands | 19 Pieces for Solo Piano | Contemporary Classical Sheet Music by Ludovico Einaudi | Emotional Piano Solos from Le Onde, I ... "Best of" Album, Transcribed for Solo Piano

Beautiful pieces of music. I may have been a little over ambitious as a complete beginner but there is only so much "twinkle twinkle" you can take as an adult beginner, and you might as well challenge yourself with something you like to hear.

If you love Einaudi's music and you can play piano, then this is for you. I've only just started playing the piano properly and sight reading and these songs are not too difficult to play. The comments that this music is Grade 5 I'm not sure. A lot of Einaudi's music, whilst beautiful sounding, is quite simple and constructed of chords and broken chords so if you're a novice pianist I wouldn't let these comments put you off. You don't necessarily need to be a high grade yourself to play this music, some people are able to pick up this style of playing quite quickly. Nefeli, for example, is one of my all time favourite pieces and it's very simple and easy to learn, whereas I Giorni is a bit meatier and includes a bit more technical skill, double notes and tenths (Einaudi's handspan must be incredible) which is the reason it would technically be graded at a higher level. In terms of key signature, there are a few pieces in C Major, but he loves A Major so be sure to know your keys. More than anything, what is required to play this music is good technical skill and strong fingers, as there is generally a lot of repetition of chords in the left hand. One thing to note - This sheet music doesn't contain all of the music on the 'Islands' album, which one might assume. Be careful of this when buying, initially I bought this because I loved 'Passagio' but it isn't included. Although, there are a lot of other beautiful songs to keep you occupied :) And I completely agree with everyone else about the binding. The pages keep closing when I play Nefeli, as it's in the middle of the book. I'm one of those people who likes to keep the spines of their book in perfect condition, which isn't an option here :)

Einaudi's music is truly stunning! This whole album is beautiful. As a 22 year old, who's been playing the piano since the age of 6, this book has made a nice change to the pop music I usually play. Mastered both 'I Gorni' and 'Ancora' both of which were pretty easy to learn, and feel beautiful to play. This book is great for any pianist who wants to show off their skills and capture an audience. I'd say it is of grade 5 level (with a few quite difficult to reach chords if you have small hands like me.) Einaudi is a genius. I love his music. Listen, practise, learn, perform!!!!

Modern playable contempory music probably grade 5-6ish. Beautiful and relaxing chord sequences - my favourite is Primavera (have since heard it feature on the rugby on BBC). Wanted some modern music which wasn't classically dischordant or cheesily pop and this fits the bill perfectly. Pieces are almost meditatively repetitave and rely heavily on epxression but thats part of the fun. Check u tube out all the pieces are on there performed by Ludovico. The book is really good value too with all the pieces being excellent. It will be a challenge to find more music i like just as much now.

I have no issue with the music, but when are the publishers going to get real about the playability of such productions? From a commercial point of view, it looks good, visually and musically, and represents good value, but practically speaking it is almost impossible to keep the pages flat to enable one to actually play the pieces. I own dozens of similar publications, all impossible to play in their original format, and every one I have taken to a 'Print Services' company and paid £4-5 extra to have the spine removed and replaced by a a spiral (either wire or plastic). When I saw this for sale I anticipated a similar action would be required. However, things went wrong on this occasion. Once the spine was cut off, the remaining space at the side of the pages was insufficient to take a spiral without losing the last few notes on each line. Consequently, I now own a botched up copy. The purpose of my ranting is to highlight the point that, if publishers continue to produce such products, as it must be cheaper to produce and easier to distribute and store, please allow sufficient white paper space to allow a spiral spine to be added if required by the customer. If the type face size of the music had been reduced by only 1-2% this would have made the all the difference.

Wonderful... well received

It is good to have the various piano pieces in one book rather than individual sheets . I am enjoying learning I Giorno . All pieces at original level - not made easier.

This music book is exemplary it's a great relaxing book I recommend it to teach the brain musical notes it's actually helping my own mental health thankyou all very kindly

エイナウディの作品は聴いて・演奏して心地良いものが多いです。演奏上難しい要素も少ないので、幅広い方におすすめできます。

Achat fait pour ma fille qui veut déchiffrer et jouer ces morceaux. Un beau recueil au format agréable et un cadeau dont je suis sûr qu'il fera plaisir.

I enjoyed the gentle tone of these pieces. They vary in difficulty but I was able to sight read most with Grade IX piano. A little repetitious at times but very impressive sounding. I love this book.

Excellent product

The book of Enaudi’s music was delivered in a matter of about ten days. It has many pieces in clear easy-to read print. I am only playing the first one, but look forward to some of the rest. The piece Sunrise was highly recommended to me but it wasn’t in this book. That doesn’t matter though, as they are all new to me.