It goes to show that there are different and valid ways to approach Einaudi’s music and not everyone will share the composer’s tastes. There is a world of distance between the composer’s I due fiumi and van Krücker’s heavier, richer, very relaxed, pedal-heavier reading. Interestingly this approach means that La Nascito Delle Cose Segrete, though faster in the composer’s reading, is the more overtly melancholy too. And Einaudi, as in so many composer-executant performances, tends almost always to be the more direct performer, van Krücker lingering affectionately over the material where Einaudi presses ahead. It’s clear from Michael van Krücker’s exploration of some of Einaudi’s best-known piano pieces that he favours a more vertical approach to sonority, and that he has also been recorded in a riper acoustic than the composer himself in his BMG disc (74321 974622) which contains many of the same works. The constricted dynamics, harmonic simplicity and repetitive thematic nature of many of his pieces are part of an approach that succeeds in evoking sonorous simplicity. Support us financially by purchasing this fromĮinaudi’s status as a popular ‘easy listening’ composer has inspired the inevitable contempt of the snooty brigade.
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