The seventies saw a progressive decline in John Barry's career, with an increase in their television participations and in projects of scarce level, as the horrible Starcrash (1979). Two very different films mark his victorious return: the, in its moment, barely successful Somewhere In Time (1980), and the torrid Body Heat (1981) that threw the careers of its director Lawrence Kasdan, and their two main actors William Hurt and Kathleen Turner. The magnificent score of Kasdan's film had become a valuable collector jewel, and the CD 1990 edition [Southern Cross SCSE CD-1] it reaches prices at a prohibitive point, so this new recording with the also composer Joel McNeely at the baton of the London Symphony Orchestra, is necessary and an excellent opportunity to recover a basic work of the gender. To that it helps the stupendous edition that not only includes three unpublished cues -Ned, Matty's Place, I'm Burning Up-, but also it offers an excellent and clean sound (contrary to the a little bit rashy of the original) and a beautiful cover, work of the habitual in the collection Matthew Joseph Peak. McNeely conducts with elegance and stupendous level, and although in the main theme is a little languid and slow (almost half minute more than the version conducted by Barry!), in the rest of the disk it reaches an excellent tone. Very advisable for those that have the original, and a obligatory CD for the rest.

BODY HEAT (1981) - 38:28
London Symphony Orchestra - Director: Joel McNeely
VARESE SARABANDE VSD-5951 / 39'

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