Paul Grabowsky belongs to that wide group of composers unknown far from the country on which they center their work (in this case, Australia), and whose work is distributed, almost evenly, between television and the cinema; Noah's Ark seems to be his first score for the American market. This television miniseries, directed by the well-known and very competent John Irvin, is part of a series of productions that Hallmark Entertainment comes carrying out for some years, revisiting topics and very famous characters, using actors and technicians of first order: for example, Merlin (1998), with Sam Neill and Helena Bonham-Carter, The Odyssey (1997) which Andrei Konchalovsky directed with Armand Assante and Greta Scacchi, or the very recent Cleopatra (1999) -with Timothy Dalton and the director Franc Roddam -. Logically the musical environment has been specially care, and although the involved composers are not of first order, they demonstrate a robustness and specially interesting inspiration. In Noah's ArkGrabowsky gives a varied and easy of listening score, with a wise mixture of diverse elements in a symphonic environment, sometimes between descriptive and impressionist that define him as an interesting author of solid formation. M.A.F.

/ VARESE SARABANDE VSD-6027 / 59 '

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