Surrounded by a great polemic due to the revelations that it includes about the life of the sadly missing cellist Jacqueline du Pré, and musically centered in Edward Elgar's Concerto for Cello, op.85, a work that it left the oscurantism in which was submerged thanks to her famous performance, it was unavoidable that the original score of the English Barrington Pheloung, author of several works for television and some more or less well-known films as Shopping (1994) or The Mangler (1995), it was not only at a second level regarding the plot but to the own Elgar's music. His five cues hardly occupy thirteen minutes of the record, and create a pleasant and a little bit melancholic atmosphere (especially in The Farmhouse) thanks to the use of the cello and piano soloists, but lose interest beside the version of the mentioned Elgar concerto, recorded in 1970 in Philadelphia under the baton of the soloist's husband, the pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim. Under this optic the interest of the record is centered, almost exclusively, in those interested in knowing the work of Elgar and/or the interpretive force of the sadly and premature deceased soloist. M.A.F.

HILARY AND JACKIE
/ SONY CLASSICAL SK60394 / 49 '

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