Out of Africa (film) - Soundtrack

Soundtrack

The music for Out of Africa was composed and conducted by veteran English composer John Barry. The score included a number of outside pieces such as Mozart's Clarinet Concerto and African traditional songs. The soundtrack garnered Barry an Oscar for Best Original Score and sits in fifteenth place in the American Film Institute's list of top 25 American film scores. The soundtrack was released through MCA Records and features 12 tracks of score at a running time of just over thirty-three minutes. A rerecording conducted by Joel McNeely and performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra was released in 1997 through Varèse Sarabande and features eighteen tracks of score at a running time just under thirty-nine minutes.

MCA Records release

1. "Main Title (I Had a Farm in Africa)" (3:14)
2. "I'm Better at Hello (Karen's Theme I)" (1:18)
3. "Have You Got a Story For Me" (1:14)
4. "Concerto For Clarinet and Orchestra in A (K. 622)" (2:49) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields
5. "Safari" (2:44)
6. "Karen's Journey/Siyawe" (4:50) contains traditional African music
7. "Flying Over Africa" (3:25)
8. "I Had a Compass From Denys (Karen's Theme II)" (2:31)
9. "Alone on the Farm" (1:56)
10. "Let the Rest of the World Go By" (3:17) - by Ernest R. Ball and J. Keirn Brennan
11. "If I Know a Song of Africa (Karen's Theme III)" (2:12)
12. "End Title (You Are Karen)" (4:01)

Varèse Sarabande Re-Recording

1. "I Had a Farm (Main Title)" (3:12)
2. "Alone on the Farm" (1:00)
3. "Karen and Denys" (0:48)
4. "Have You Got a Story For Me" (1:21)
5. "I'm Better at Hello" (1:24)
6. "Mozart: clarinet concerto in A Major: K622 (Adagio)" (7:39) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
7. "Karen's Journey Starts" (3:41)
8. "Karen's Journey Ends" (1:00)
9. "Karen's Return From Border" (1:33)
10. "Karen Builds a School" (1:19)
11. "Harvest" (2:02)
12. "Safari" (2:35)
13. "Flight Over Africa" (2:41)
14. "Beach at Night" (0:58)
15. "You'll Keep Me Then" (0:58)
16. "If I Knew a Song of Africa" (2:23)
17. "You Are Karen M'Sabu" (1:17)
18. "Out of Africa (End Credits)" (2:49)