BRUNO COULAIS
Le Libertin   Columbia 498034 (France) 29.99
French comedy with a lively, rhythmic score.  Combines percussion with
electronics with voices in a breezy, upbeat, sometimes bittersweet
mood.  Unusual.

MASON DARING
Where The Heart Is   RCA 63697  16.99
32-minute score featuring gentle piano, guitar and strings.  Sometimes
warm, sometimes moodier.

JAMES HORNER
The Perfect Storm  Sony 89262  16.99
79 minutes.  Outstanding, powerhouse score.  Very long cues, richly
developed.  Combines sweeping melody, intense action and Americana all
into one epic work.

MARK ISHAM
Galapagos In 3-D   Milan 35910 (Imax) 15.99
46-minute album to new Imax film.  Rhythmic and melodic large orchestral

score.  Great music for sea lions, giant turtles and other myseries of
the world below.

ERICH KORNGOLD
Complete Violin & Piano Music   ASV 1080  15.99
  -Violin Sonota in G/Caprice Fantastique/Serenade/
   Much Ado About Nothing (Suite for Violin & Piano)/etc-
Too late for review.  A capsule review is coming soon.

JOEL McNEELY
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
   PCD 149 (Belgium) 17.99
74 minutes of orchestral music for a historial TV miniseries starring
Sam Neill.  Much of the score is moody, with somber melodies highlighted

by splashes of Americana.

ENNIO MORRICONE
Alzati Spia (Espion Leve-Toi)   CDST 326 (Italy) 20.99
Expanded 37-minute edition.  Very dramatic thriller features the
familiar Morricone piece known as "Marche In LA."  One of Morricone's
stronger thriller scores.

Le Trio Infernale   CDST 320 (Italy) 20.99
42-minute CD premiere features several tracks not on the original LP.
Light, bouncy, tuneful.

Senza Movente (Without Apparent Motive)
  CDST 321 (Italy) 20.99
33 minute expanded version features previously unreleased variations of
the main themes.  Scored in Morricone's terse thriller style with
jabbing strings, percussive rattles and toots from the brass.

Vamos A Matar Companeros   CDST 327 (Italy) 20.99
Popular western score by Morricone in a 61-minute expanded edition.  All

of the recognizable Morricone western trademarks apply.  Particularly
energetic main title song.

Vatel   Virgin 49365 (France) 29.99
  -Brand new Roland Joffe film-
Too late for review.  A capsule review is coming soon.

JEAN-CLAUDE PETIT
Le Prof    Sony 89247 (France) 29.99
41 minutes.  Strong orchestral score with melody and some energy.  An
emphasis on rich string writing.  Dramatic but not somber or oppressive.

JOHN POWELL / HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS
Chicken Run   RCA 63702  16.99
62 minutes.  New movie from Dreamworks and Aardman gets dynamic
orchestral score.  Tips a hat to many classic scores.  Themes are big,
bold.  Very well recorded.

VARIOUS COLLECTIONS
A History Of Horror   Silva 1111 (2 CD set) 19.99
  (City Of Prague Philharmonic)  -Frankenstein Unbound/
   Peeping Tom/Nosferatu/Sixth Sense/The Omen/Suspiria/etc-
Too late for review.  A capsule review is coming soon.