The Conspirator MIM Records***

The Conspiratoris Mark Isham's fourth and best film score for director Robert Redford. His music for A River Runs Through It, Quiz Show and Lions for Lambsfeatured beautiful romantic passages and great moments of suspense, and his involving score for Redford's film about the Lincoln assassination succeeds superbly in integrating the dramatic and the lyrical.

Combining elegiac strings (particularly Zoe Keating's exquisite solo cello), brooding horns and spare percussion with long melodic lines and muted colours, Isham carefully develops his themes to create a taut and dynamic score. The Conspiratoris a score that moves and intrigues in equal parts. See store.isham. com

Download tracks: April 14 1865, One Bullet But Not One Man