The end of the Century seems to want to look back to not very far years, and so two decades after his apogee returns to the big screens the Catastrophe Movies subgenre. And if in the seventies it was the name of John Williams, with its intensely symphonic style, the one to look related with quality productions -The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Earthquake (1974), The Towering Inferno (1974)-, the plethora of actual composers of magnitude is much more extense, and so the same motto (a volcanic eruption) is treated in a very different way, both in the plot as well the music: first in Dante's Peak, with director Roger Donaldson and composer John Frizzell, and now with Volcano, with Mick Jackson and Alan Silvestri. Volcano is a more emblematic film from the genre than its predecessor in time, and have the luck to count, besides its impressively realistic effects, with the participation of a composer of the stature of Silvestri, whom moreover to be a great musician, is also an intelligent author; his score, restful, tense or spectacular as needed, never creaks, and offer cues so proper of him as Tarnation or March of the Lava. Pity that the eight cues included on the recorded taste scanty, as many other times, but its also true that the movie did not abuse of an excesse of music, buried as it could be under the explosions and the effects. A.L.

/ VARESE SARABANDE VSD-5833 / 30'