Track Listing

1. Main Title/Looks Like a Suicide [Expanded]
2. Ride to Fort Hayes
3. Journey to Fort Sedgewick/Shooting Star/John Dunbar Theme/Arrival ...
4. John Dunbar Theme
5. Death of Timmons
6. Two Socks/The Wolf Theme
7. Stands With a Fist Remembers
8. Buffalo Robe
9. Journey to the Buffalo Killing Ground
10. Spotting the Herd [#]
11. Buffalo Hunt [Film Version][#]
12. Fire Dance
13. Two Socks at Play
14. Falling in Love [#]
15. Love Theme
16. John Dunbar Theme
17. Pawnees/Pawnee Attack/Stone Calf Dies/Toughest Dies
18. Victory [#]
19. Death of Cisco
20. Rescue of Dances With Wolves
21. Loss of the Journal/The Return to Winter Camp
22. Farewell/End Title
23. Buffalo Hunt [Album Version][*]
24. John Dunbar Theme [Film Version][#][*]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4485 in Music
• Brand: Sony
• Released on: 2004-05-18
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Extra tracks, Soundtrack
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Customer Reviews

A late masterpiece restored (almost)
This is one of John Barry's masterworks - if not indeed his magnus opus - and we've waited much too long for a comprehensive reissue. Whatever you think of Kevin Costner's film (and I'd hate to base a friendship on whether or not someone loved "Dances with Wolves" as I did) it would be a far less exciting movie without Barry's magnificent score. Eschewing the more traditional Western sound pioneered by Jerome Moross and Elmer Bernstein, which eventually descended into rank imitation and self-parody, Barry went for a lush, poewerful symphonic rhapsody. While avoiding ethnic cliches in his music for the Native American characters, he found expression for the more violent aspects of tribal warfare through a stunning, resonant, absolutely plangent use of percussion that quickens the pulse and suggests menace without going into histrionic overdrive. Barry's melodic work is no less impressive: in his justly famous "John Dunbar Theme," for example, there is a weird, majestic inevitability to the notes - they seem to flow into one another in exactly the right way; you can't imagine a single cadence being any different. This new release restores much that was truncated on the original release of the score. "The Buffalo Hunt" - which accompanies one of the most original and exciting set-pieces in recent American movies - is given the full treatment here, and is therefore twice as satisfying. My only cavil: Barry wrote an hour and 40 minutes worth of music, so even this lovingly restored version is shorter than it might be in a perfect world. And I'm not sure why the producers added the film version of the Dunbar theme as a bonus track rather than reordering it to replace the album version within the score itself. Still, this disc is a major cause for celebration, an essential element for the shelves of any true lover of film music.

Cornerstone of any film music collection
John Barry's masterpiece is simply one of the most breathtaking, moving film scores of all time. The rich variety of themes, and his trademark sweeping orchestration are unforgetteble. Most stunning, perhaps, is that the music that captures the epic grandeur of the American West better than any other was written by an Englishman, albeit one who has adopted the US as his home.

This CD does not present the score "in its entirety," as the liner notes claim, but there is a huge amount not available until now, and at the low list price, this is a must have for anybody who enojys film music.

Wow!
I am reduced to a blubbering fool listening to this. I remember seeing this in the theater way back in 1990 and realizing that the music I was listening to at that time was gutwrenching, endearing and lump in the throat forming. John Barry captured the feel of Dances With Wolves to a tee. What a breathtaking journey he takes us on through this soundtrack. I am a fool for not buying this music until 2005. I have watched my copy of the movie over the years and now have this CD. The John Dunbar theme touches my heartstrings like no other song. Amazing how music can touch the soul. If you don't have this in your collection, do order it. You will be transported to a world that no longer exists. Excellent!