Besides his facet as composer, in which we may highlight Demon Knight(1995) or The Wings of the Dove (1997), Shearmur has worked as orchestrator or conductor for other colleagues (among them, Elliot Goldenthal and Michael Kamen). In this score, in general lines, Shearmur not only forgets to create a central theme, but also of assigning music for characters or situations, and what makes is simply to compose music of jewish-sefardi style, and to couple it with to the movie. I don't mean to say that the result is incorrect, and the director of the film surely looked for this way to put music to the images, being undeniable that the music is 100% sefardi, the instrumentation is perfectly taken care, and from the first notes that we listen we locate ourselves in this music that on one hand it is Arab, but that for another has European roots. I consider that it has been a great success to include the vocalist Ofra Haza in different cues, and if the music itself is very sad and melancholic, with this artist's inclusion it is accentuated even more, whom, by the way, sings some songs in Spanish, due the inheritance in the sefardi culture. If I had to choose a cue, it would be Entr'acte; it is a very sad theme where a piano (with almost funeral rhythm) combines perfectly with a more than moving violin. To finish, only to say that the CD includes a classic piece for piano by Franz Schubert. A.M.

/ SONY CLASSICAL SK 60685 / 48 '

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