steinway & Sons Spirio, the world’s finest high resolution player piano, presents international sensation Steinway Artist Ludovico Einaudi. An Italian pianist and composer with a classical background, Einaudi has created his own musical language that has the power to touch all listeners. During his recent North American tour, he visited Steinway & Sons' Spirio studio in New York to record some of his most famous compositions — just for spirio owners. Our spirio sync video this month features Einaudi performing his popular “I Giorni” (The Days).

Tell me a bit about your aesthetic and what this alchemy comes from. There’s doo-wop, the Beatles, rock ‘n’ roll, and I know you’re a Beethoven guy! What else is it that all goes into that aesthetic for you?

I fell in love with music at an early age. My father was a pianist. He was German. He had taken piano lessons and we had a piano in the house, an old upright that wasn’t very good, but my father could make it sound good because of the way he played. My mom was always bringing home records in the library: Broadway shows, classical music, opera, Harry Belafonte records. And we always played the radio in my house. Fortunately, in New York, you got such a wide spectrum of different kinds of music listening to the radio — so I was exposed to it at an early age and fell in love with it. I started taking piano lessons at an early age. My mom brought me to a teacher who lived down the street, and I was fascinated with classical music for the first sixteen years of my life. I always refer to it as the sweet girl next door. Then, when I was a teenager, this rock ‘n’ roll girl came along, with fishnet stockings and smeared lipstick, smoking cigarettes — and she dragged me away from the girl next door, and we had a passionate affair for a good forty years. Now, I’ve rediscovered the girl next door. She looks really good these days. So I listen mostly to classical music now.

‘I gave Beethoven credit. I didn’t give him any money, but I gave him a credit on the album.’

steinway & Sons Spirio, the world’s finest high resolution player piano, presents international sensation Steinway Artist Ludovico Einaudi. An Italian pianist and composer with a classical background, Einaudi has created his own musical language that has the power to touch all listeners. During his recent North American tour, he visited Steinway & Sons' Spirio studio in New York to record some of his most famous compositions — just for spirio owners. Our spirio sync video this month features Einaudi performing his popular “I Giorni” (The Days).