Track List:
Total Time: (77:56) |
Composed by: James Horner Conducted by: Orchestrated by: Performed by: |
If there is one cue on this CD that I would have to recommend listening to it is "The Princess Pleads for Wallace's Life," which you may recognize as the music that plays as the Princess reveals to her father that Wallace has impregnated her. While this is certainly the best track, I would definitely recommend that you hear it in the movie first just to understand why it works so well. Hearing it on it's own may not be entirely impressive.
The truly odd thing about this is that the "main" theme is not really the main theme at all because the love theme seems to completely overshadow it. The one thing about this score that may be considered BAD is the fact that it's just hard to listen to on it's own. You may have to do something else and use this as background music or listen to it while you're sleeping just so it doesn't bore you.
Although I feel that this soundtrack is somewhat overrated, I will bow to it as an impressive show of emotional outpour. According to most Horner fans, this is his very best, and I am forced to recommend this to all fans of emotional film scores.