Far away is the stammering composer of Pet Sematary (1989), the first film incursion of Elliot Goldenthal, and each new work of this american musician reconfirm him in one of the top places on the actual Film Music firmament. A Time to Kill, his second collaboration with director Joel Schumacher (with whom, it seems, continues to work with Batman and Robin) shows the more common and wished Goldenthal characteristics, from his affinity to the symphonic serialism and the musical treatment on sound blocks, till the immersion of certain proper timbre elements (harmonica, sax, ...), and harmonic gestures of the visual environment on which its developed the story of the movie. A sad and slightly deprive of hope theme, the stupendous Pavane, of which it is offered up to three versions for piano and orchestra, allow to recognize the terrific melodist whom Goldenthal has inside, and its brisk mutation on the terrorific and ultraviolent Abduction, is the ideal reflection of the dual spirit of the score. M.A.F.

/ ATLANTIC CLASSICS 82959-2 / 41'