Rob Roy: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack From The Film [SOUNDTRACK]

Carter Burwell

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 2, 1995)
• Original Release Date: September 26, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Virgin Records Us
• ASIN: B000000W7K
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #17,492 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Overture: Rob Roy/The Rieving Party

2. Home from the Hills

3. Hard Earth - Karen Matheson

4. Procession for the Ill-Used

5. Blood Sport

6. Gaelic Reels - Capercaillie

7. Ailein Duinn - Karen Matheson

8. Last Peaceful Night

9. Troops in the Mist

10. Honor Inflamed

11. Dispossessed, the: Cave/Hard Home on the Moor

12. Blunt Reels - Capercaillie

13. Highland Justice: Call of the Claymore/Assize of the Gregorach

14. Standing Stone, a Silk Purse

15. Theid Mi Dhacaigh (I'll Go Home) - Angus R. Grant, Karen Matheson

16. Rannoch Moore Suite: Scorched Earth/Rannoch Moor Retreat/The Mists/Rob

17. Morag's Lament - Karen Matheson

18. Born by Rapids

19. Love and Death Suite: My Beloved/A Matter of Honor/Cunningham's End

20. Robert and Mary

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, November 23, 2004

By	W. de Jong (The Netherlands) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you like sad, but also romantic music, this is it. The soundtrack could be categorized together with Danny Elfman's Sommersby, although this score is more emotional.

Since many music fans do not have a certain dark melancholy inside, they discard this score as mediocre or even bad...
IT IS PERFECT! There is deep romance (not superficial, although at first this may sound so...), haunting drama (Troops in the Mist and Honor Inflamed), realistic action music that even reaches heartbreaking emotion (Rannoch Moor Suite) and an "end of evil" cue for Cunningham (Love and Death Suite)...!
This score was overlooked thanks to James Horner's Braveheart.

Rob Roy and Fargo are Burwell's best works, both emotional and dark, with a romantic twist in Rob Roy and with a comical twist in Fargo.

Keep listening to these scores and they will strike you as musical gems!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Moving, October 29, 2000

By	Karl Marx "karl__marx" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

I must disagree with an earlier review which thought this CD was incomplete. The missing pieces he sights weren't written for this film, they were added to relatively insignificant scenes. This CD contains the sweeping, romantic score as well as the Gaelic traditional tune that were recorded for the film - a very rich and beautiful mix.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars truly Scotland!!, December 17, 2000

By	"scotslover" (Texas USA) - See all my reviews

Having visited Scotland a couple of years ago, I can slide this little CD in while driving and I feel like I am back there!! This is the type of music that I can listen to all day (and sometimes do) and never get tired of it!! It is majestic and moving, sometimes sad but oftimes a pick me up!