Gladiator (2000 soundtrack)

Gladiator: Music From the Motion Picture is the original soundtrack album of the 2000 film Gladiator. The soundtrack was composed and arranged by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard, and was released on April 25, 2000. It was conducted and orchestrated by Gavin Greenaway and performed by the Lyndhurst Orchestra.

Gladiator: Music From the Motion Picture
Soundtrack album by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard
Released	April 25, 2000
Recorded	2000
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	61:31
Label	Decca Records
Producer	Klaus Badelt Ridley Scott Hans Zimmer

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Film Score Reviews
Filmtracks
SoundtrackNet

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").

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
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

Year-end charts

Year-end chart performance for Gladiator

Chart (2000)	Position
Canadian Albums (Nielsen SoundScan)[2]	180

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
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. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

More Music From the Motion Picture

Gladiator: More Music From the Motion Picture
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

Professional ratings

Review scores
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."

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
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

Special Anniversary Edition

Gladiator: Music From the Motion Picture: Special Anniversary Edition
Soundtrack album by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard
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.

20th Anniversary Edition

Gladiator: Music From the Motion Picture: 20th Anniversary Edition
Soundtrack album by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard
Released	2020
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	1:57
Label	Decca Records
Producer	Alan Mayerson, Ridley Scott, Hans Zimmer

For the film's 20th anniversary, a double CD edition was released mirroring the 2005 Special Anniversary Edition.^[14]

Musical impact

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.^[15][16]

Film music critics have noted that the Gladiator score also borrows from works by Richard Wagner, particularly themes from Siegfried and Götterdämmerung.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003, the singer Luciano Pavarotti released the album Ti Adoro, which includes the song "Il gladiatore" ("The Gladiator"). Pavarotti told Billboard magazine that he was originally meant to sing this song for Gladiator, but ultimately decided against it.^[17]