Track Listing

1. Main Title (expanded)/Looks Like A Suicide (expanded) Album Version
2. Ride To Fort Hays Album Version
3. Journey To Fort Sedgewick/Shooting Star/The John Dunbar Theme/Arrival At Fort Sedgewick (expanded) Album Version
4. The John Dunbar Theme Album Version
5. The Death Of Timmons Album Version
6. Two Socks/The Wolf Theme Album Version
7. Stands With A Fist Remembers Album Version
8. The Buffalo Robe Album Version
9. Journey To The Buffalo Killing Ground Album Version
10. Spotting The Herd Album Version
11. The Buffalo Hunt (film version) Album Version
12. Fire Dance Album Version
13. Two Socks At Play Album Version
14. Falling In Love Album Version
15. The Love Theme Album Version
16. The John Dunbar Theme Album Version
17. Pawnees/Pawnee Attack/Stone Calf Dies/Toughest Dies Album Version
18. Victory Album Version
19. The Death Of Cisco Album Version
20. Rescue Of Dances With Wolves Album Version
21. The Loss Of The Journal/The Return To Winter Camp Album Version
22. Farewell/End Title Album Version
23. The Buffalo Hunt Album Version
24. The John Dunbar Theme (film version) Album Version

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16820 in Music
• Released on: 2004-07-05
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack

Customer Reviews

Barry's excellent score in an extended edition
Some soundtracks not only transform the film for which they were written, but also provide enjoyable music in their own right. John Barry's "Dances With Wolves" most definitely falls into this category.

The original soundtrack album had a running time of some 53 minutes. Fortunately, someone at Sony appears to have realised that this did not represent all the best music, and consequently there is this 2004 release with a running time of some 75 minutes.

The music itself is in Barry's most stirring and moving style. Of the many memorable themes in the score, my favourite is the one first heard in the track "The Buffalo Robe". Gently scored for strings at this point, it conveys the sort of elegiac poetry normally associated with Russian composers such as Borodin and Balakirev. The same theme reappears scored for woodwind and sounding even more haunting in the track "Falling in Love".

Incidentally, "Falling in Love" and "The Buffalo Hunt" (film version) are two of the tracks which didn't appear in the shorter release, making this 2004 release pretty much essential.

As with most film music, there is a certain amount of repetition and padding, but overall this is an example of the soundtrack genre at its finest. In addition, the orchestral playing is especially good, and the recording quality is clear and well balanced. Very highly recommended.

Barry Scores Again!
John Barry has always been a master at soundtracks, but with "Dances With Wolves", he truly scores high points. This is not a standard western soundtrack, but has a wide variety of instrumental and percussion elements that make it truly unique. The "Main Title" and slower numbers stand out as some of Barry's best. It truly is a romantic soundtrack.

Gift1
bought as a gift no review to add - except that i have seen film and the music was great