Gladiator (2000 soundtrack)
| Gladiator: Music From the Motion Picture | |
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| Soundtrack album by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard | |
| Released | April 25, 2000 |
| Recorded | 2000 |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Length | 61:31 |
| Label | Decca |
| Producer | Klaus Badelt, Ridley Scott, Hans Zimmer |
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| Gladiator: More Music From the Motion Picture | |
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| Soundtrack album by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard | |
| Released | February 27, 2001 |
| Recorded | 2000 |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Length | 57:58 |
| Label | Decca Records |
| Producer | Alan Mayerson, Ridley Scott, Hans Zimmer |
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| AllMusic | |
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| Gladiator: Music From the Motion Picture: Special Anniversary Edition | |
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| Soundtrack album by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard | |
| Released | 2005 |
| Recorded | 2000 |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Length | 1:17:00 |
| Label | Decca Records |
| Producer | Alan Mayerson, Ridley Scott, Hans Zimmer |
Gladiator is the original soundtrack of the 2000 film of the same name. The original score and songs were composed by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard and were released in 2000, titled Gladiator: Music From the Motion Picture. The Lyndhurst Orchestra performing the score was conducted by Gavin Greenaway.
The album won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and was also nominated for the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Score ("Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music").
*sales figures based on certification alone
On February 27, 2001, nearly a year after the first soundtrack's release, Decca released Gladiator: More Music From the Motion Picture. This CD contained an additional 18 cuts from the film (including remixes of earlier scores like "Now We Are Free"). Many tracks also use dialogue from the movie, such as Maximus' famous quote "Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife... and I will have my vengeance." While the release was not popular with critics, it was a fair commercial success.
For the film's 5 year anniversary a double CD edition was released combining the 2 previous editions.
Hans Zimmer's style influenced many composers, who used elements like the melancholy stylings of Djivan Gasparyan's Duduk as well as female wailing vocals and the "battle waltz" for ancient war movies that followed.
Harry Gregson-Williams, a member of Zimmer's own Media Ventures Productions, relayed scoring duties for Ridley Scott's later film, Kingdom of Heaven.
In June 2006, agents representing the estate of composer Gustav Holst (1874–1934) filed a lawsuit claiming that Zimmer plagiarized material from The Planets. Specifically, "The Battle" was believed to plagiarize Holst's "Mars, the bringer of war". The Track "Barbarian Horde" reprises most of these themes.
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