Paradise Road is the last film from director Bruce Beresford, and on it tell us the shortages and avatars happened in a japanese concentration camp for women, on the Dutch Antilles during World War II. This group of women thought that the music was the best remedy to escape (at least mentally) from the horrors that they were enduring, and as they don't have the possibility to play any musical instrument -being in War, in the middle of the jungle and with the japanese widely reluctant to let them have it-, two of the prisoners decide to arrange classical musical pieces to be performed in a choral way. The fact that some of them, at the end of the War, carry with the original scores (some other must be reconstructed) had make possible not only the creation of this CD, but also of the movie. And that are the contents of the record, choral versions of classical fragments which goes from Ravel's Bolero or Chopin's Funeral March, to the traditional irish song Danny Boy. There is also cues, very brief, of the original incidental music of the film written by Ross Edwards, whom acomplish the mission to situate ourselves in the jungle, thanks to its orchestration. More than everything this is a CD oriented to a public more interested for classical music than film music, but it is also a very curious one. A.M.

/ SONY CLASSICAL SK63026 / 49'