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The great French film critic Michel Ciment loves to say that a film is essentially remembered through its images. But when the images are commented upon by great music, the evocation intensifies. Beginning in the 1960’s, Ennio Morricone has unquestionably contributed to consigning a great part of his more than 500 soundtracks for Italian and non-Italian films to myth: from the genre that made him famous – the western – to comedy, to socially and politically committed cinema.

His scores for the big screen have the very rare gift of “working” even without the support of the images for which they were created. In addition, Morricone successfully combines the activity of film composer (which earned him a career Oscar, awarded in 2007 by Clint Eastwood), with that of contemporary composer, making use of linguaggi equally seductive to the ears and captivating to the hearts of his audiences.

The program for the two evenings scheduled in the Telecomusica summer season includes, in fact, “serious” works alternating with his most famous film scores - like those he composed for the legendary westerns directed by Sergio Leone - to which Morricone added just this year the magnificent music for Giuseppe Tornatore’s latest magnum opus, “Baarìa”.