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'Planet Earth II' Soundtrack - CBS 'The Late Show'
1 Main Theme (From The Dark Knight Rises) feat. Lindsey Stirling  
2 Main Theme (From Pirates of the Caribbean) feat. The Piano Guys  
3 Gladiator Rhapsody (From Gladiator) feat. Lang Lang  
4 Main Theme (From Crimson Tide) feat. Till Broenner  
5 Time (From Inception) feat. Tina Guo  
6 This Land (From The Lion King) feat. Amy Dickson  
7 Now We Are Free (From Gladiator) feat. Leona Lewis  
8 Flight (From Man of Steel) feat. Lang Lang and Maxim Vengerov  
9 Light (From The Thin Red Line) Maxim Vengerov  
10 The Battle Scene (From Gladiator) feat. Khatia Buniatishvili  
11 Mombasa (From The Inception) feat. 2CELLOS  
12 The Docking Scene (From Interstellar) feat. Roger Sayer  
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Sony Classical is delighted to announce a key new recording event: a brand-new album performed by stellar musicians of the day that showcases some of Hollywood's greatest ever movie themes, written by one of the world's most innovative musical talents and leading film composer of our time – Hans Zimmer. This vivid collection of back-to-back blockbuster hits brings together for the first time Zimmer's unmistakeable movie themes, re-imagined and in arrangements especially written for some of our top musicians including superstar pianist, Lang Lang; cello wizards, 2CELLOS and Tina Guo; outstanding violinists, Maxim Vengerov and Lindsey Stirling; Classic BRIT Award-winning saxophonist, Amy Dickson; internet sensations, The Piano Guys and with stupendous vocals by Leona Lewis.

 

  • Hans Zimmer will perform 'Christmas Concert' at the Vatican / Alet
    Posted At: October 10, 2024
    One of the most prolific and influential film composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, Germany's Hans Zimmer began his music career in London, producing and playing synths for a variety of new wave and punk bands in the early 1980s. After founding a recording studio with film scorer Stanley Myers, their work on films such as 1985's My Beautiful Laundrette fused the traditional orchestral aesthet...

  • Hans Zimmer's 5 most iconic film soundtracks / AFTERBUZZTV
    Posted At: March 21, 2024
    AfterBuzz TV's Gregory S. Karp Jr. writes….. The most iconic film composer next to John Williams, Hanz Zimmer’s masterful scores may be found nowhere else than in many of our favorite movies. Across his 40-year career, his striking musical accompaniments of blended electronic and orchestral instrumentations have garnered immense critical and fan acclaim! - The most iconic film composer next to John Wil...

  • Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Is set to perform Hans Zimmer's iconic film scores / CONCRETE PLAYGROUND.
    Posted At: February 28, 2023
    Hear the legendary composer's 'Inception', 'The Lion King' and 'The Dark Knight' scores performed by a live orchestra at Hamer Hall.Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Is Performing Hans Zimmer's Iconic Film Scores Live Across Two Big NightsCONCRETE PLAYGROUND's Sarah Ward writes….When Hans Zimmer composes a film score, audiences remember it. His list of credits is as massive as his love of music, spanning everyth...

  • "A circus theme would be an apt score for UKs political upheaval" / Belfast Telegraph chats with Hans Zimmer
    Posted At: October 28, 2022
    Having spent many years living and working in the UK, the composer said he did love the country but questioned its recent political movements.Belfast Telegraph's Naomi Clarke writes…..Hans Zimmer has said a circus theme would be an apt soundtrack for the political upheaval within the UK over the last number of months.The Oscar-winning composer, 65, has written music for a plethora of films including The Lio...

  • Hans Zimmer at the O2 Arena / The Upcoming
    Posted At: March 31, 2022
    The Upcoming's Filippo L’Astorina writes….Despite being one of Hollywood’s most successful producers, for many years Hans Zimmer didn’t enjoy the same popularity of the likes of Danny Elfman, James Horner and John Williams. He wrote iconic scores that earned him an Oscar – The Lion King – and the appreciation of true film buffs – The Thin Red Line. Gladiator’s music was so popular that even those who had no...

  • Hans Zimmer and Vince Staples record new remix of UEFA anthem for FIFA 19 / GAMER ROOF
    Posted At: May 12, 2019

    FIFA 19 is a soccer simulation video game developed by EA Vancouver as part of the Electronic Arts FIFA series. Announced on June 6, 2018, for its E3 2018 press conference, it was launched on September 28, 2018, for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and Microsoft Windows. It is the twenty-sixth installment of the FIFA series. As with FIFA 18, Cristiano Ronaldo appears as ...

  • Hans Zimmer commissioned for this year's BBC - Ten Pieces / BBC Music Magazine
    Posted At: March 1, 2019

    A new set of ten pieces has been revealed today for this year's BBC Ten Pieces programme, under the title of ‘Trailblazers'. Now in its sixth year, the education initiative hopes to inspire children aged 7-14 as a starting point for them to learn about classical music.  The programme showcases works throughout history that have redefined the world of music, and this year's list is hugely varie...

  • Hans Zimmer to score Wonder Woman 1984 / SCREEN RANT
    Posted At: August 26, 2018

    Hans Zimmer will return to the DC Universe to score Wonder Woman 1984. Fans of Wonder Woman waited decades to finally see her brought to the big screen, prior to Gal Gadot's debut in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. There were plenty of doubters, but Gadot won many over in BvS thanks to her charm, and also the great action scenes she was a part of. One of the elements to her debut that is now syno...

  • CLASSIC fM's list of best Hans Zimmer soundtracks
    Posted At: June 24, 2018

    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} German-born composer Hans Zimmer is recognized as one of Hollywood's most innovative musical talents‚ having first enjoyed success in the world of pop music as a member of The Buggles. The group's single Video Killed the Radio Star became a worldwide hit and helped usher in a new era of global entertain...

  • If you're interested in scoring, watch the Hans Zimmer composer roundtable / Bleeding Cool
    Posted At: May 6, 2018

    Ten times Oscar nominated (1 win) composer Hans Zimmer has really come into his own as the great ambassador for film music. That's not to say that other composers haven't been doing the same for a very long time, but he's certainly doing it the most recently. In a roundtable discussion from Spitfire Audio, the British music technology company founded in 2007 by composers Christian Henson and Paul Thomson...

  • Hans Zimmer to receive Steiner Award at 'Hollywood in Vienna Gala' / Variety
    Posted At: April 23, 2018

    Composer Hans Zimmer will receive the 2018 Max Steiner Award at the annual Hollywood in Vienna concert gala. The event is scheduled for Oct. 19 at the Konzerthaus in the Austrian capital, Hollywood in Vienna founder and CEO Sandra Tomek announced. "Hans Zimmer has had a close connection to Vienna for some time now," Tomek said, citing such recent recording projects as "The Crown," "Blue Planet II" an...

  • Hans Zimmer to Score X-Men: Dark Phoenix / SuperHeroHype
    Posted At: January 27, 2018

    Following 2016's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, fan-favorite composter Hans Zimmer called it quits when it came to tights and capes. After composing the score for all three of Christopher Nolan's Batman films, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Zack Snyder's Man of Steel, and co-scoring BvS with Junkie XL, he decided to hang up his cowl. Now, however, it would seem that he's breaking out the mask one more ti...

  • Hans Zimmer scores one of the most ambitious VR projects to date / Forbes
    Posted At: January 22, 2018

    One of the best-selling hip hop groups has created a ground-breaking VR project and is making the rounds via panel appearances, celebratory events and more during the Sundance Film Festival. Entitled "Masters Of The Sun"(MOTS), the project is one of the most ambitious VR comic-book experiences to date. Ajourney of the triumph of good over evil, but hip hop style.  This is about regular people turnin...

  • Hans Zimmer scores - Masters of the Sun. Debuts at Sundance Film Festival / TechCrunch
    Posted At: January 19, 2018

    Today, "Masters of the Sun" debuts at Sundance Film Festival, with the backing of Oculus, and becomes available on Gear VR headsets. While Facebook's VR division recently shut down its in-house Story Studio, Oculus has traded the heavy-handed control for a lighter touch, funding unique products it couldn't conceive itself. Masters of the Sun is part Marvel, part Dolemite, brought from augmented reali...

  • Hans Zimmer on the border of sound and images / CBC - q
    Posted At: January 11, 2018

    Film composer Hans Zimmer on how he draws you in with music that blends the border of sound and images. The biggest surprises and snubs from the 75th Golden Globe Awards. Zimmer had a blockbuster year in 2017. He took his music on the road for the first time, earned a Golden Globe nomination for the Dunkirk score, and worked on music for Blade Runner 2049. In this special two-part conversation, we take a...

  • Netlflix adds the wondrous nature documentary - Planet Earth II, scored by Hans Zimmer / Magnetic Magazine
    Posted At: December 27, 2017

    Netlflix is coming in the clutch with a new addition to the roster – Planet Earth II. The wondrous nature documentary, scored by Hans Zimmer, clocks in at six episodes this season and takes you all around the globe with some of the most breathtaking shots of the earth and its animals you will see anywhere. Many of you may have seen it when it first aired, but going for round two or three is not a b...

  • What are your favourite Hans Zimmer soundtracks? / bandwagon
    Posted At: October 24, 2017

    In the field of film music, not many can inspire a great amount of reverence and awe as much as Hans Zimmer, and with his skills, he injects an equal dose of grandeur and experimentation into a wide range of films. Zimmer has arguably set the tone for modern film scores, and even though the German composer is involved with some of the biggest movies today - just recently, he tried his hands at both the W...

  • Happy birthday Hans Zimmer / The Indian Express
    Posted At: September 12, 2017

    Happy birthday Hans Zimmer. Zimmer has composed the soundtracks of some great movies. Hans Zimmer is today one of the finest composers in Hollywood. His most notable collaboration has been with Christopher Nolan in movies like the Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, Interstellar and now Dunkirk. He also won an Academy Award for his score in The Lion King. Hans Zimmer touches the sixth decade of his...

  • People like to say that movies are magic. Well, at the Greek, Hans Zimmer was magic / SF Weekly
    Posted At: August 12, 2017

    A funny thing happened at Hans Zimmer's concert Wednesday night at the Greek. At the center of a stage packed with choir singers, string players, drummers, and guitarists, Zimmer sat at a weathered piano, plunking out the opening notes to "Time" - a piece of score from Christopher Nolan's 2010 film, Inception. And yet, there was not footage of Inception to be found, no screen projecting images fr...

  • Hans Zimmer makes IndieWire's Top 12 most talented composers in film today
    Posted At: August 7, 2017

    In an age where special effects reign supreme, there's one aspect of the filmmaking process that hasn't gone through a radical transformation - music. Some of the best movies in any given year would be sorely lacking without their memorable scores, and this has remained true well into the first two decades of the 21st century. Film composers play an integral part in the filmmaking process, and there are ...

  • DiGiCo channel count is immense for Hans Zimmer tour / AV Magazine
    Posted At: August 3, 2017

    The audio design for legendary films core composer Hans Zimmer tour evolved during preproduction and rehearsals, but what was clear from the start was that the console channel count was going to be immense. DiGiCo products were selected as the console capable of handling the shows. The tour's audio control system was designed by Britannia Row's Lez Dwight in conjunction with front of house engineer for t...

  • Blazing out from center stage is Hans Zimmer / The Boston Globe
    Posted At: August 1, 2017

    Until movie-music maven Hans Zimmer started touring recently, he and the screen had been inseparably intertwined for decades, from his cameo in the Buggles' 1979 "Video Killed the Radio Star" music video to his stacks of soundtracks. On Saturday night at a packed Boch Center Wang Theatre, however, the Oscar-winning Zimmer demonstrated that good music has power whether it's coursing through a film...

  • Hans Zimmer speaks with FLOOD as Dunkirk hits the beaches
    Posted At: July 30, 2017

    When Hans Zimmer advises fellow movie music makers to learn how to tell a story, he knows from whence he speaks. The German-born composer won an Oscar for his score for The Lion King, and he's created epic, experimental soundscapes for films that are nevertheless approachable enough to warrant him a slot at this year's Coachella. Inception, Gladiator, Rain Man, True Romance, Thelma & Louise, A League...

  • On the road with Hans Zimmer / RollingStone
    Posted At: July 27, 2017

    The last time Hans Zimmer was a touring musician, it was around the time Margaret Thatcher took office. Having moved from Germany to England for school as a teenager, opting out of college and having no more formal music training than two weeks of childhood piano lessons, he was playing keyboards for Krakatoa, an ultimately unsigned hard rock band. Now, in a seventh-floor suite in a Four Seasons outside ...

  • Hans Zimmer's Radio City concert was one of the best ever / Read Junk
    Posted At: July 26, 2017

    Composer Hans Zimmer and his traveling band of talented musicians finally played New York City last night at Radio City Music Hall! I have been waiting to see the man perform live for many years, when his Wings of a Film live album was released in 2001. Without a doubt, this was one of the best concerts I've had ever seen and it was well worth the wait! p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: ...

  • Hans Zimmer LIVE set for CMAC / Rochester City Paper
    Posted At: July 26, 2017

    Hans Zimmer is the versatile, Oscar-winning musician who brought audiences the iconic scores to films ranging from "The Lion King" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" to "Gladiator" and "The Dark Knight." He's also responsible for the steel whale "BWAAAAMM!" sound that's absolutely inescapable at the movies these days - every composer and their mother borrowed it from Zimmer's influential "Incepti...

  • Hans Zimmer reveals what he likes about writing music for film / New Zealand Herald
    Posted At: July 25, 2017

    Legendary composer Hans Zimmer is friendly guy with a laid back attitude to life, and work. "I really can't remember when I started playing music. It's just a fantastic thing. And part of it I suppose is that you never really have to grow up like other people. You just carry on playing." 'Let me explain glamorous Hollywood life to you," says Hans Zimmer. "I get up, I get in the car, I go to m...

  • Christopher Nolan speaks about his partnership with Hans Zimmer / CLASSIC fM
    Posted At: July 19, 2017

    "It's an extraordinary partnership and a wonderful creative collaboration, but we do things and we dive into things fully, and when you do that, passions run high." Christopher Nolan on his partnership with Hans Zimmer. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial; min-height: 11.0px} Saturday Night at the Movies presen...

  • Hans Zimmer puts on grand showcase at Smart Financial Centre / Houston Chronicle - Houston Press
    Posted At: July 17, 2017

    From Houston Chronicle - If Aphex Twin and Richard Wagner had a lovechild, it'd be a lot like the second act of "Hans Zimmer Live" - turbulent, primordial, mathematical. While the first half of the concert featuring one of the world's best known film score composers is fun but noisy and directionless, the two-hour finale that occurs after intermission is both a tribute to classical, electron...

  • Hans Zimmer's 60+ piece touring show is set for Foxwoods Casino / Connecticut Magazine Q&A
    Posted At: July 10, 2017

    Reading the list of film scores that German composer Hans Zimmer has worked on over the course of his 30-year career is to look at a list of some of the most important films of the last several decades. He won an Oscar for the 1995 score to The Lion King, and has since done the scores for more than 120 films, including director Christopher Nolan's latest, the World War II epic Dunkirk, being re...

  • The first track of Dunkirk has just been released, and it's a stormer / Joe
    Posted At: July 9, 2017

    The working relationship between Hans Zimmer and Christopher Nolan has always given us something pretty special. The composer created the very unique soundtracks to some of Nolan's big screen outings, including the landmark scores to to the likes of Inception, The Dark Knight and Interstellar. Over the years he's also provided some of the most iconic soundtracks of all time, such as his work on P...

  • Hans Zimmer takes his scores on tour / Paste Q&A
    Posted At: July 8, 2017

    If you've watched a lot of blockbuster-type movies in the last few decades, chances are you've experienced the music of German-born composer Hans Zimmer. He's scored over 120 films-from those of The Dark Knight Trilogy to Gladiator-in various genres; next up is Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk. However, about three years ago, Zimmer decided to step out from behind the screen and perform his mu...

  • Hans Zimmer and Christopher Nolan explore the chaos and courage of World War II in Dunkirk / Entertainment Weekly
    Posted At: June 25, 2017

    Composer Hans Zimmer and filmmaker Christopher Nolan journeyed to the stars in Interstellar, plumbed the depths of the subconscious mind in Inception, and brought superheroes and villains to life in the Dark Knight trilogy. With their latest collaboration, Dunkirk, they're exploring the chaos and courage of World War II, and EW has some exclusive details about the film's soundtrack. Set for release J...

  • Hans Zimmer's journey to Hollywood's composer of choice / GQ
    Posted At: June 20, 2017

    From his legendary hi-tech studio in Santa Monica the man behind the music to Gladiator, the Dark Knight trilogy and Inception has revolutionised the art of film scores. Ahead of the release of Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster, Dunkirk, for which Hans Zimmer penned the score, GQ remembers the time we interviewed Zimmer on his journey from punk producer to the composer of choice for Hollywood's grea...

  • Fan Theory speaks to Hans Zimmer about this summer's concert tour
    Posted At: June 19, 2017

    Fan Theory speaks to Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer about his live concert tour this summer. He talks about how he scores films like "The Dark Knight" and "Inception," if his music is thematic or not and how he really feels about movie trailers. Zimmer's recently released Sony Classical recording showcases some of Hollywood's greatest ever movie themes. The collection of blockbuster hits ...

  • Hans Zimmer will donate concert proceeds to London fire victims / The Independent
    Posted At: June 16, 2017

    The German film score composer Hans Zimmer is donating all proceeds from a London show to the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire. Zimmer who has written such film scores as Inception, Sherlock Holmes and, most recently, Wonder Woman, made the announcement during his performance at London's SSE Arena in Wembley on Thursday evening (15 June). Zimmer and his 15 piece studio band paid tribute to the...
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