Shakespeare In Love has become one of the film surprises of last year in the United States, and it would not be strange that it also triumphed in the rest of the world if what we have read up to now is certain. Supported in a good casting, that apparently produce an exquisite job, and in an original and fictitious history that presents us a William Shakespeare author, actor and theatrical manager surrended to Love, has a very effective and timed soundtrack. The author is Stephen Warbeck, composer of which I only know the fact that it also composed the score of Mrs. Robinson (1997). His music for Shakespeare In Love is very influenced by Patrick Doyle -that surprisingly has compose the scores for the films on works of Shakespeare taken to the screen in the last years-, and it starts up vigorously with a main theme, The Beginning Of The Partnership, in my opinion the best in the work and very in the line of Geoffrey Burgon's Brideshead Revisited , and that in spite of its beauty he will hardly use in the rest of the score (with the exception of The Brawl). If something prevails it is the simplicity, the instrumentation of winds (very soft) and strings, next to the fact that it goes addressed to a reduced number of musicians, what confers it an intimate and, of course, romantic air; a very representative cue of this is A Daughter's Duty where there are only four instruments, being the main one the harp with a very relaxing result. There are incidental cues as The Play (Part I), or The Fight, very well resolved and which won't cause the listener's fatigue, and only one, The Play & The Marriage that lean on the voice of soprano Catherine Bott almost conferring it an oniric aspect. Finally, this score has called the attention of the members of the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Hollywood, being nominated to the Oscar in the comedy category. A.M.

/ SONY CLASSICAL SK63387 / 55 '

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