Gladiator: Music From the Motion Picture | |
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Soundtrack album by | |
Released | April 25, 2000 |
Recorded | 2000 |
Genre | Soundtrack |
Length | 61:31 |
Label | Decca Records |
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Film Score Reviews | |
Filmtracks | |
SoundtrackNet |
Gladiator: Music From the Motion Picture is the original soundtrack album of the 2000 film Gladiator . The soundtrack was composed by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard, and was released on April 25, 2000. It was conducted by Gavin Greenaway and performed by the Lyndhurst Orchestra.
The album won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score and the BAFTA Award for Best Score ("Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music").
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Progeny" | 2:13 |
2. | "The Wheat" | 1:03 |
3. | "The Battle" | 10:02 |
4. | "Earth" | 3:01 |
5. | "Sorrow" | 1:26 |
6. | "To Zucchabar" | 3:16 |
7. | "Patricide" | 4:08 |
8. | "The Emperor Is Dead" | 1:21 |
9. | "The Might of Rome" | 5:18 |
10. | "Strength and Honor" | 2:09 |
11. | "Reunion" | 1:14 |
12. | "Slaves to Rome" | 1:00 |
13. | "Barbarian Horde" | 10:33 |
14. | "Am I Not Merciful?" | 6:33 |
15. | "Elysium" | 2:41 |
16. | "Honor Him" | 1:19 |
17. | "Now We Are Free" | 4:14 |
Chart (2000) | Position |
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Canadian Albums (Nielsen SoundScan) [2] | 180 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Canada (Music Canada) [3] | Gold | 50,000^ |
Italy (FIMI) [4] | Gold | 50,000* |
Poland (ZPAV) [5] | Platinum | 100,000* |
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [6] | Platinum | 100,000^ |
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [7] | Gold | 25,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI) [8] | Platinum | 351,000 [9] |
United Kingdom (BPI) [10] Special Anniversary Edition | Silver | 60,000* |
United States (RIAA) [11] | Platinum | 540,000 [12] |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
Gladiator: More Music From the Motion Picture | |
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Soundtrack album by | |
Released | February 27, 2001 |
Recorded | 2000 |
Genre | Soundtrack |
Length | 57:58 |
Label | Decca Records |
Producer | Alan Mayerson, Ridley Scott, Hans Zimmer |
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [13] |
SoundtrackNet | |
Tracksounds |
On February 27, 2001, nearly a year after the first soundtrack's release, Decca released Gladiator: More Music From the Motion Picture. The album contains eighteen additional tracks, including unused tracks and remixes of existing tracks. Many tracks contain dialogue from the film, such as the Maximus line "Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife... and I will have my vengeance."
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Duduk of the North" (duduk by Djivan Gasparyan and Sevak Sahakyan) | 5:33 |
2. | "Now We Are Free" (Juba's mix) | 4:47 |
3. | "The Protector of Rome" (featuring Russell Crowe as Maximus and Richard Harris as Marcus Aurelius) | 1:25 |
4. | "Homecoming" (featuring Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus and Russell Crowe) | 3:35 |
5. | "The General Who Became a Slave" | 3:03 |
6. | "The Slave Who Became a Gladiator" (featuring Oliver Reed as Proximo and Russell Crowe as Maximus) | 6:11 |
7. | "Secrets" | 1:59 |
8. | "Rome is the Light" | 2:43 |
9. | "All That Remains" | 0:54 |
10. | "Maximus" (guitar by Heitor Pereira) | 1:09 |
11. | "Marrakesh Marketplace" | 0:42 |
12. | "The Gladiator Waltz" (featuring Russell Crowe, original synth demo version by Hans Zimmer) | 8:25 |
13. | "Figurines" (yangqin by Lisa Gerrard) | 1:01 |
14. | "The Mob" | 2:22 |
15. | "Busy Little Bee" (featuring Connie Nielsen as Lucilla and Russell Crowe as Maximus) | 3:47 |
16. | "Death Smiles at Us All" (featuring Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus and Russell Crowe as Maximus) | 2:29 |
17. | "Not Yet" (featuring Djimon Hounsou as Juba) | 1:32 |
18. | "Now We Are Free (Maximus Mix)" | 6:21 |
Gladiator: Music From the Motion Picture: Special Anniversary Edition | |
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Soundtrack album by | |
Released | 2005 |
Recorded | 2000 |
Genre | Soundtrack |
Length | 1:59:29 |
Label | Decca Records |
Producer | Alan Mayerson, Ridley Scott, Hans Zimmer |
For the film's five-year anniversary, a double CD edition was released combining the two previous editions.
In April 2006, a law firm representing the Holst Foundation filed a lawsuit claiming that Zimmer had infringed the copyright of composer Gustav Holst's The Planets . The organization claimed that Zimmer copied Holst's track "Mars, the Bringer of War" in the Gladiator score. The case was settled out of court. [14] [15]
Film music critics have noted that the Gladiator score also borrows from works by Richard Wagner, particularly themes from Siegfried and Götterdämmerung .[ citation needed ]
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