John Barry
played a big role in putting the
James Bond
movies on the map (and keeping them there), and he's scored everything from historical epics (
Zulu
,
Dances with Wolves
) to close-in two-person dramas (
Dutchman
). For many listeners, however,
Somewhere in Time
is his greatest film score, a gently romantic, lyrical idyll that contains some of his best string writing and his most subtle and compelling orchestral work prior to
. Some of the darker thematic material on
"Near the Lake"
will even recall elements of his scoring for
From Russia with Love
, but nothing in that movie was as exquisitely drawn out as the long melodic line here. ~ Bruce Eder