Candlelight: Tribute to Ludovico Einaudi

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Thu 08 Dec 2022

Italian musician Ludovico Einaudi is one of the most popular living composers with his recordings selling in the millions. His music, with its slowly circling repetitive melodies rising and falling, is also a sea of tranquillity in our hectic world which is why it works so effectively for the latest in the series of Candlelight concerts.

Organised by events company Fever, the Candlelight concerts take place at various venues across the city and feature different composers. For this event, it was Birmingham's St Philip's Cathedral which was adorned with more than 100 candles creating pathways on the floor. Just to add for any health and safety people – they are artificial candles!



In the centre and at the piano was British-Japanese musician Maya Caskie performing for an hour-long concert which included plenty of Einaudi hits including I Giorni, Divenire, Primavera, Experience and In Un'Altra Vita.

It was interesting to hear Einaudi's compositions played by someone other than Einaudi and under Caskie's fingers, the music sounded more lively and less lyrical. This isn't a criticism, the nature of music is that every person who plays it brings their own touch, experience and emotion to it, which is the beauty of hearing different musicians' interpretations.

Caskie is both hugely talented and charming - she introduced tracks, talked a little about the experience and thanked the audience for attending. She was also highly adept at relaying the concentrated subtlety at the heart of Einaudi's music.



Under the watchful eye of the cathedral's famous Burne-Jones windows and with a huge lit Christmas tree as a backdrop, the concert had a festive charm in the gentle candlelight. However, while the candlelight is clearly a focus of the event, more illumination on Caskie would have been appreciated as she was also enveloped in shade. As the focal point of the event, it would have been better to actually see her playing.

Fever have two more Candlelight concerts in Birmingham this Christmas focussing on the music of Love Actually on 29 December and Hans Zimmer on 30 December, both at Birmingham Botanical Gardens. For full details of these and other concerts see feverup.com/en/birmingham

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