Ennio Morricone: Musica per 11 violini (1958)
Ennio Morricone: Suoni per Dino (1969)
Ennio Morricone: 4 pezzi (1957)
Ennio Morricone: Proibito (1972)
Helmut Lachenmann: Guero (1970)
Helmut Lachenmann: 5 Variations on theme by Franz Schubert (1956)
Helmut Lachenmann: Serynade (1997-98)

Max Baillie viola
Roderick Chadwick piano
David Massey guitar

It’s one of the most unlikely musical kinships imaginable: the ferocious modernism of Germany's greatest living composer, Helmut Lachenmann (pictured above left), and the lush film scores of the Oscar-winning Italian composer, Ennio Morricone (pictured above right).

Yet it remains a fact: Morricone is Lachenmann’s favourite composer. What this night will demonstrate is that this is not as strange a musical friendship as it first appears.

Morricone’s eccentric chamber work will be performed alongside some of Lachenmann’s most spectacular solo piano pieces, including the epic Serynade.