Nightbook
{{Infobox album
| name = Nightbook
| type = studio
| artist = Ludovico Einaudi
| cover = Nightbook.jpg
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| released = 5 October 2009
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| genre = Contemporary classical music
| length = 1:07:20
| label = Sony Classical
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| prev_title = Divenire
| prev_year = 2006
| next_title = In a Time Lapse
| next_year = 2013
}}
Nightbook{{cite web|title=Nightbook|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B002L1FAOW?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creativeASIN=B002L1FAOW&linkCode=xm2|publisher=Amazon.co.uk|accessdate=12 October 2012}} is an album created by Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi and released in 2009. The album saw Einaudi take a new direction with his music as he incorporated synthesized sounds alongside his solo piano playing. A new approach could be seen with tracks such as "Nightbook", and "Lady Labyrinth" where the element of percussion was utilized along the piano, acting as a driving force throughout the song.
In Italy the album went Gold with more than 35,000 copies sold.{{cite web|url=http://www.fimi.it/certificazioni#/category:album/year:2013/page:0/term:ludovico/week:Tutte+le+settimane|title=Certificazioni - Ludovico|publisher=Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana}} Einaudi describes this album as "A night-time landscape. A garden faintly visible under the dull glow of the night sky. A few stars dotting the darkness above, shadows of the trees all around. Light shining from a window behind me. What I can see is familiar, but it seems alien at the same time. It's like a dream - anything may happen."
The title track "Nightbook" was used in the TV advertisement for the Channel 4 drama "Any Human Heart".
The track "Lady Labyrinth" is often used as background music in Top Gear specials.
Track listing
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| title1 = In Principio
| length1 = 2:51
| title2 = Lady Labyrinth
| length2 = 5:30
| title3 = Nightbook
| length3 = 5:50
| title4 = Indaco
| length4 = 5:21
| title5 = The Snow Prelude N. 15
| length5 = 4:28
| title6 = Eros
| length6 = 5:36
| title7 = The Crane Dance
| length7 = 3:05
| title8 = The Snow Prelude N. 2
| length8 = 4:08
| title9 = The Tower
| length9 = 4:40
| title10 = Rêverie
| length10 = 4:40
| title11 = Bye Bye Mon Amour
| length11 = 7:37
| title12 = The Planets
| length12 = 7:07
| title13 = Solo
| note13 = Hidden track, also known as "Piste Sans Titre 13", which literally means "Untitled Track 13" in the Dutch release
| length13 = 8:46
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Charts
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| {{album chart|France|131|artist=Ludovico Einaudi|album=Nightbook|rowheader=true|accessdate=23 December 2018}} |
| {{album chart|Italy|11|artist=Ludovico Einaudi|album=Nightbook|rowheader=true|accessdate=23 December 2018}} |
Certifications and sales
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{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|region=Italy|artist=Ludovico Einaudi|title=Nightbook|award=Gold|certyear=2013|relyear=2009}}
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{{Certification Table Entry|type=album|region=Worldwide|artist=Ludovico Einaudi|title=Nightbook|nocert=true|salesamount=750,000|relyear=2009|salesref={{cite journal|title=Per comporre ho bisogno di stare lontano dalla baraonda|url=http://archivio.corriere.it/Archivio/interface/view.shtml#!/MTovZXMvaXQvcmNzZGF0aW1ldGhvZGUxL0A1MTkwMw%3D%3D|date=7 December 2013|language=it|website=Corriere della Sera|page=37|first=Gloria|last=Pozzi|quote=Molto spazio anche al vendutissimo Nightbook del 2009 rappresentato da The Tower, Eros, Lady Labyrinth. un disco che, con 750 mila copie vendute in tuto il mondo
|access-date=14 February 2021}}}}
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