The music for the film "The sky of the moon" (Il cielo della luna) is another aspect of Massimo Fagioli's first work to be explored. Is the music itself a sort of image, does it express something akin to imagery? It definitely is not music to accompany a film, a mere sound track. The musical pieces, sometimes nervous and then again sensual and moving, grew out of a close working relationship between the director and the musician, Enrico Pieranunzi. It is after all quite uncommon to find anything like the collaboration between the psychiatrist, author of the film, and this famous jazz pianist, who is well known outside of Italy as well and recently won a prize in France as Europe's best soloist. Pieranunzi knows as much about the piano as there is to know, but remains open to experimentation and adventure. His arrangement for piano and voice in the 1997 album "Ma l'amore no" with Ada Montellanico is really beautiful, for example.

Pieranunzi's task with regard to "The sky of the moon" was rather special because he had to understand and accept the sounds suggested by Fagioli, who admits he doesn't know anything about music, and then render them on instruments. The results are magnificent. Says Fagioli, "If anyone was better than the actress, it was the musician, because he didn't make images, but sounds. In creating these sounds he did something perhaps even m ore difficult than what the actress had to do." Indeed, the music is not an obvious image which appears on the screen, but an image hidden among the sounds of a violin or a harp...