All vikisGladiator Soundtrack
Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard's Gladiator soundtrack (2000) in full, all 17 tracks of the Decca album, 1 hour 1 minute, each playing from its first second, under measured highlights. It won the Golden Globe, went platinum twenty years after release and is still played live with the film.
We rate the Gladiator soundtrack A tier, and we think its quiet music beats its loud music: the two ten-minute battle cues made the noise in 2000, but the four minutes of Now We Are Free are what people still carry around. It gets A under our rule on one fact: orchestras still play it in concert, most recently for the film's 25th anniversary at the Royal Albert Hall on Apr 27, 2025. We could confirm no complete second recording by another orchestra, which is what S would need.
This is Now We Are Free, the cue that closes the film as Maximus passes to the afterlife, and the best known piece in the score (Filmtracks). The music had a busy 25th year: La-La Land Records put a remastered three-CD edition of 64 tracks on sale on Apr 1, 2025, limited to 3,500 copies (La-La Land Records), and that month's Royal Albert Hall concert had the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and the Philharmonia Chorus under Timothy Henty. The album the tables below play is the first one: Decca released it on Apr 25, 2000 with 17 tracks (Filmtracks), which run 1 hour 1 minute 48 seconds by Vi.ki's own count of the uploads on Nov 10, 2026.
Two names on the cover, more in the room
The album is credited to Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard, with The Lyndhurst Orchestra under the conductor Gavin Greenaway (Universal Music Italia), and it was recorded at Air Studios Lyndhurst in London (AllMusic). Filmtracks lists a wider cast. It names Klaus Badelt as a co-composer, credits additional music to Jeff Rona, Djivan Gasparyan and Nick Glennie-Smith, and counts six orchestrators.
The solo players give the score its color. Gasparyan plays the duduk, Rona the flute, Tony Pleeth the cello and Heitor Pereira the guitar, and Gerrard is credited twice over, for her voice and for the yangqin (Filmtracks). We think that list explains the sound better than any description of the orchestra does: this is an epic whose most memorable passages belong to a singer and a duduk.
A Globe for two, an Oscar nomination for one
The awards bodies did not agree on whose score it was. The Golden Globe for Best Original Score went to Zimmer and Gerrard together (goldenglobes.com), and BAFTA nominated the pair (bafta.org). The Academy nominated Zimmer alone, and gave the award to Tan Dun for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (oscars.org). A Grammy nomination for best score soundtrack album followed in 2001 (grammy.com).
On the Billboard 200 the album entered on May 20, 2000, peaked at No. 66 a week later and stayed 24 weeks (Billboard). Its one US certification came much later: the RIAA database shows Platinum, dated Jun 12, 2020, two decades after release.
The afterlife music, and the sequel that kept it
Filmtracks rates the afterlife themes, heard in Earth and Elysium, as the strongest thing in the score, and names The Battle and Barbarian Horde as its two major action cues. Zimmer's own favorite, the same review says, is Am I Not Merciful?
The film has been screened with live orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall since 2014, when four shows sold out, and Gerrard sang there herself on May 25, 2016 with the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra and the English Chamber Choir under Justin Freer. Zimmer did not return for Gladiator II. Harry Gregson-Williams, once his assistant, wrote that score, which nods to Zimmer's music and Gerrard's voice and grows out of the falling seventh in Now We Are Free (Classic FM, Dec 11, 2024).
Highlights
Eight moments inside the tracks of this album, measured by Vi.ki from the uploads on Nov 10, 2026 and not picked by ear (the home page says how). Few moments passed the bar on this album: a choir entry, a flute entry and the climaxes. The Play column is the time inside the track.
All tracks
The 2000 album in its own order, from label-provided uploads: tracks 1 to 16 sit on the YouTube channel of the conductor, Gavin Greenaway, and track 17, Now We Are Free, on Lisa Gerrard's. Each track is its own video, so every Play link starts at 0:00, and the 17 run 1 hour 1 minute 48 seconds in all; the longest, Barbarian Horde, lasts 10:34 and the shortest, Slaves to Rome, 1:01.
Editions
| Edition | Released | Tracks | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music from the Motion Picture | Apr 25, 2000 | 17 | Decca |
| More Music from the Motion Picture | Feb 27, 2001 | 18 | Decca |
| Anniversary set, both albums | Sep 5, 2005 | Decca | |
| 25th Anniversary Remastered & Expanded, 3 CDs | Apr 1, 2025 | 64 | La-La Land Records |
Dates and counts for the three Decca releases are as Filmtracks lists them; the 2005 set added no new music. AllMusic gives the same Apr 25, 2000 date for the first album, while Universal Music Italia's page shows May 16, 2000. The La-La Land set was made with Paramount Pictures and Geffen Records and supervised by Zimmer and Gerrard.
Sources
- Gladiator, Filmtracks, read Nov 10, 2026
- Gladiator, Music From The Motion Picture, Universal Music Italia, read Nov 10, 2026
- Gladiator: Music from the Motion Picture, AllMusic, read Nov 10, 2026
- Gladiator: 25th Anniversary Remastered & Expanded Limited Edition, La-La Land Records, read Nov 10, 2026
- Gladiator 25th Anniversary Expanded Edition Soundtrack Album Announced, Film Music Reporter, Apr 1, 2025
- Gladiator in Concert, Royal Albert Hall, Apr 27, 2025
- Gladiator, live to picture, Royal Albert Hall, May 25, 2016
- Composing the Gladiator II soundtrack, Classic FM, Dec 11, 2024
- Gladiator, Golden Globes
- Anthony Asquith Award for Original Film Music, BAFTA
- The 73rd Academy Awards, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- Hans Zimmer, Recording Academy
- Hans Zimmer chart history, Billboard 200, Billboard
- Gold and Platinum: Gladiator, RIAA, read Nov 10, 2026
Moments
Now We Are Free (From "Gladiator" Soundtrack)
Lisa Gerrard
The Wheat (From "Gladiator" Soundtrack)
Gavin Greenaway
The Battle (From "Gladiator" Soundtrack)
Gavin Greenaway
Patricide (From "Gladiator" Soundtrack)
Gavin Greenaway
The Might Of Rome (From "Gladiator" Soundtrack)
Gavin Greenaway
Barbarian Horde (From "Gladiator" Soundtrack)
Gavin Greenaway
Am I Not Merciful? (From "Gladiator" Soundtrack)
Gavin Greenaway
Honor Him (From "Gladiator" Soundtrack)
Gavin Greenaway
Progeny (From "Gladiator" Soundtrack)
Gavin Greenaway
Earth (From "Gladiator" Soundtrack)
Gavin Greenaway
Sorrow (From "Gladiator" Soundtrack)
Gavin Greenaway
To Zuccabar (From "Gladiator" Soundtrack)
Gavin Greenaway
The Emperor Is Dead (From "Gladiator" Soundtrack)
Gavin Greenaway
Strength And Honor (From "Gladiator" Soundtrack)
Gavin Greenaway
Reunion (From "Gladiator" Soundtrack)
Gavin Greenaway
Slaves To Rome (From "Gladiator" Soundtrack)
Gavin Greenaway
Elysium (From "Gladiator" Soundtrack)
Gavin Greenaway
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