The Italian piano star Andrea Lucchesini worked closely with the great modernist composer and compatriot Luciano Berio before he died in 2003, recording all his works for the keyboard.

And in a concert with the Vancouver Recital Society, you can expect the musician praised for his nuanced interpretive skill to play an especially well-informed version of Berio’s 6 Encores. The piece is a test not only of virtuosity, but of the ability to “paint” imagery with sound.

It joins Domenico Scarlatti’s 5 Sonatas and Franz Schubert’s Sonata in B-flat Major in what promises to be a sublime program. 

November 18 at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.