Little can we comment about this English composer that may not have been said already, and from these pages we maintain a permanent attention to his work that, even though seems a little bit anchored in a given type of soft and elegant sound, somber and intimate, it is at the same time staunch to some consequent creative and stylistic criteria with a work already long and celebrated. Now, in a curious turn of the screw, John Barry demonstrates his mastery in the same sound profile with this concert work of personal inspiration that, without any doubt, shows unavoidable and logic inheritance from his film scores. Supported, mainly, in the untiring strings of the English Chamber Orchestra and the stupendous performance of the harmonica (Tommy Morgan) and alt sax (David White) soloists, Barry offers twelve cues of various nature that go from the wide and intensely romantic initial theme (The Beyondness of Things), to potent pieces with games among metal and strings (Meadow of Delight and Sadness), with a succeeded and personal final touch (Dance With Reality). But that nobody feels deceit, since little new offers Barry with respect to anyone of his cinematographic works; The Beyondness of Things is not more (neither less) than the sublimation of the style and the work of a very great composer. And as such it must be heard.

The Beyondness of Things (1997)
English Chamber Orchestra - Conductor: John Barry
LONDON 460009-2 / 55'

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