If there is a film music composer whose advance is inexorable, his pulse steady, and his quality on upward progression, this is no other than Elliot Goldenthal. Combining his personal and experimental style of musical writing, a mixture of an orchestral treatment sometimes delicate and equillibrate, sometimes wild and impressive, with a sound pattern close to be operatic, -and even the trace of his mentor John Corigliano is still at times visible-, Goldenthal prove how to be faithful to himself and to the film for which is working for without loosing an inch of quality. The turbulent story of the maker of modern Irland, Michael Collins, find on Goldenthal' s notes -unavoidably infused of the irish musical essence-, Sinead O'Connor's stupendous vocal support, and the each time better conductory work of the also composer and usual collaborator Jonathan Sheffer, the proper equillibrium between the dramatism of the plot and the necessary intimacy to make it closer to the audience. A superb work. M.A.F.

/ ATLANTIC CLASSICS 82960-2 / 47'