Although his first film score comes from an early date as 1974 (Miss O'Gynie et les Hommes Fleurs) it is now, since the Golden Globe Award received, when it is examined with more detail the film career of this french composer of lebanese origin. Author of some other more or less recognized scores -specially The Lover (1991)-, Yared was the first choice of director Anthony Minghella, who saw on him the appropiate person to give the romantic and a little bit peculiar dimension who unfold the plot of The English Patient. Pointed by sporadic appearances of music from Irving Berlin, Count Basie or Johann Sebastian Bach, Yared's eclectic score is lean on, basically, on the soloist use of the piano and its balance with the strings; hungarian touches who seem oriental in Muzsikás and on the expansive first cue The English Patient, or the fake baroque of Convento di Sant'Anna, live together of this elegant and beautiful work which shows a high grade of maturity and soberness. M.A.F.

/ FANTASY FCD-16001 / 73'