Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is the original soundtrack album

Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television program. In some cases, not all the tracks from the movie are included in the album; however there are rare cases of songs in the trailers that do not appear in...

 of the 2000

2000 in film

The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible II. Domestically in North America, Gladiator won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ....

 Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...

-winning film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia film. An American-Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-production, the film was directed by Ang Lee and featured an international cast of ethnic Chinese actors, including Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen...

 starring Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh

Michelle Yeoh

Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng is a Hong Kong-based Malaysian Chinese actress, well known for performing her own stunts in the action films that brought her to fame in the early 1990s....

, Ziyi Zhang and Chen Chang

Chen Chang

Chen Chang , courtesy name Jingye , formally Prince Xian of Hengyang , was an imperial prince of the Chinese dynasty Chen Dynasty...

. The score was composed by Tan Dun

Tan Dun

Tan Dun is a Chinese contemporary classical composer, most widely known for his scores for the movies Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero.-Early life in China:...

, originally performed by Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra is an influential orchestra in China. The music director is Long Yu.It was founded in 1879 as Shanghai Public Band, one of the earliest orchestras in Eastern Asia. It was renamed to Shanghai Municipal Council Symphony Orchestra in 1922. Starting in 1919, an Italian...

, Shanghai National Orchestra and Shanghai Percussion Ensemble, it also features many solo passages for cello played by Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma is an American cellist, virtuoso, and orchestral composer. He has received multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011...

. The "last track" (A Love Before Time) features Coco Lee

CoCo Lee

Coco Lee , born on 17 January 1975, also known by her official English name as Ferren Lee, is a pop singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. Coco started her career in Hong Kong but, after becoming popular in Taiwan, she was widely considered to be a Taiwan artist. She was born to a Chinese...

. The music for the entire film was produced in two weeks.

Except for the awards won (see below) the score was also nominated for a Golden Globe

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score is one of several categories presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association , an organization of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside North America, since its institution in 1947...

 but lost to the score of the film Gladiator.

Tan Dun arranged portions of the film score into a concerto for cello and orchestra called the Crouching Tiger Concerto.

Track listing

• 1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 3:24
• 2. The Eternal Vow 3:02
• 3. A Wedding Interrupted 2:16
• 4. Night Fight 3:11
• 5. Silk Road 3:09
• 6. To The South 2:21
• 7. Through The Bamboo Forest 4:23
• 8. The Encounter 2:41
• 9. Desert Capriccio 4:33
• 10. In The Old Temple 3:47
• 11. Yearning of the Sword 3:34
• 12. Sorrow 4:03
• 13. Farewell 2:25
• 14. A Love Before Time
  A Love Before Time
  "A Love Before Time" was the end-credit song from the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The song was nominated for Academy Award for Best Song in 2000. It was written by Jorge Calandrelli, Tan Dun , and James Schamus It was performed by Coco Lee, who also performed the song live at the...
  
   (English) 3:46
• 15. A Love Before Time (Mandarin) 3:38
• 16. Green Destiny (Love Theme) 2:21 (Bonus on Japanese edition)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is the original soundtrack album

Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television program. In some cases, not all the tracks from the movie are included in the album; however there are rare cases of songs in the trailers that do not appear in...

 of the 2000

2000 in film

The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible II. Domestically in North America, Gladiator won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ....

 Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...

-winning film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia film. An American-Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-production, the film was directed by Ang Lee and featured an international cast of ethnic Chinese actors, including Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen...

 starring Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh

Michelle Yeoh

Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng is a Hong Kong-based Malaysian Chinese actress, well known for performing her own stunts in the action films that brought her to fame in the early 1990s....

, Ziyi Zhang and Chen Chang

Chen Chang

Chen Chang , courtesy name Jingye , formally Prince Xian of Hengyang , was an imperial prince of the Chinese dynasty Chen Dynasty...

. The score was composed by Tan Dun

Tan Dun

Tan Dun is a Chinese contemporary classical composer, most widely known for his scores for the movies Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero.-Early life in China:...

, originally performed by Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra is an influential orchestra in China. The music director is Long Yu.It was founded in 1879 as Shanghai Public Band, one of the earliest orchestras in Eastern Asia. It was renamed to Shanghai Municipal Council Symphony Orchestra in 1922. Starting in 1919, an Italian...

, Shanghai National Orchestra and Shanghai Percussion Ensemble, it also features many solo passages for cello played by Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma is an American cellist, virtuoso, and orchestral composer. He has received multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011...

. The "last track" (A Love Before Time) features Coco Lee

CoCo Lee

Coco Lee , born on 17 January 1975, also known by her official English name as Ferren Lee, is a pop singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. Coco started her career in Hong Kong but, after becoming popular in Taiwan, she was widely considered to be a Taiwan artist. She was born to a Chinese...

. The music for the entire film was produced in two weeks.

Except for the awards won (see below) the score was also nominated for a Golden Globe

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score is one of several categories presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association , an organization of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside North America, since its institution in 1947...

 but lost to the score of the film Gladiator.

Tan Dun arranged portions of the film score into a concerto for cello and orchestra called the Crouching Tiger Concerto.

Track listing

• 1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 3:24
• 2. The Eternal Vow 3:02
• 3. A Wedding Interrupted 2:16
• 4. Night Fight 3:11
• 5. Silk Road 3:09
• 6. To The South 2:21
• 7. Through The Bamboo Forest 4:23
• 8. The Encounter 2:41
• 9. Desert Capriccio 4:33
• 10. In The Old Temple 3:47
• 11. Yearning of the Sword 3:34
• 12. Sorrow 4:03
• 13. Farewell 2:25
• 14. A Love Before Time
  A Love Before Time
  "A Love Before Time" was the end-credit song from the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The song was nominated for Academy Award for Best Song in 2000. It was written by Jorge Calandrelli, Tan Dun , and James Schamus It was performed by Coco Lee, who also performed the song live at the...
  
   (English) 3:46
• 15. A Love Before Time (Mandarin) 3:38
• 16. Green Destiny (Love Theme) 2:21 (Bonus on Japanese edition)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is the original soundtrack album

Soundtrack album

A soundtrack album is any album that incorporates music directly recorded from the soundtrack of a particular feature film or television program. In some cases, not all the tracks from the movie are included in the album; however there are rare cases of songs in the trailers that do not appear in...

 of the 2000

2000 in film

The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible II. Domestically in North America, Gladiator won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ....

 Academy Award- and Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...

-winning film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia film. An American-Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-production, the film was directed by Ang Lee and featured an international cast of ethnic Chinese actors, including Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen...

 starring Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh

Michelle Yeoh

Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng is a Hong Kong-based Malaysian Chinese actress, well known for performing her own stunts in the action films that brought her to fame in the early 1990s....

, Ziyi Zhang and Chen Chang

Chen Chang

Chen Chang , courtesy name Jingye , formally Prince Xian of Hengyang , was an imperial prince of the Chinese dynasty Chen Dynasty...

. The score was composed by Tan Dun

Tan Dun

Tan Dun is a Chinese contemporary classical composer, most widely known for his scores for the movies Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero.-Early life in China:...

, originally performed by Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra is an influential orchestra in China. The music director is Long Yu.It was founded in 1879 as Shanghai Public Band, one of the earliest orchestras in Eastern Asia. It was renamed to Shanghai Municipal Council Symphony Orchestra in 1922. Starting in 1919, an Italian...

, Shanghai National Orchestra and Shanghai Percussion Ensemble, it also features many solo passages for cello played by Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma

Yo-Yo Ma is an American cellist, virtuoso, and orchestral composer. He has received multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011...

. The "last track" (A Love Before Time) features Coco Lee

CoCo Lee

Coco Lee , born on 17 January 1975, also known by her official English name as Ferren Lee, is a pop singer, songwriter, record producer and actress. Coco started her career in Hong Kong but, after becoming popular in Taiwan, she was widely considered to be a Taiwan artist. She was born to a Chinese...

. The music for the entire film was produced in two weeks.

Except for the awards won (see below) the score was also nominated for a Golden Globe

Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score

The Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score is one of several categories presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association , an organization of journalists who cover the United States film industry, but are affiliated with publications outside North America, since its institution in 1947...

 but lost to the score of the film Gladiator.

Tan Dun arranged portions of the film score into a concerto for cello and orchestra called the Crouching Tiger Concerto.

Track listing

• 1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 3:24
• 2. The Eternal Vow 3:02
• 3. A Wedding Interrupted 2:16
• 4. Night Fight 3:11
• 5. Silk Road 3:09
• 6. To The South 2:21
• 7. Through The Bamboo Forest 4:23
• 8. The Encounter 2:41
• 9. Desert Capriccio 4:33
• 10. In The Old Temple 3:47
• 11. Yearning of the Sword 3:34
• 12. Sorrow 4:03
• 13. Farewell 2:25
• 14. A Love Before Time
  A Love Before Time
  "A Love Before Time" was the end-credit song from the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The song was nominated for Academy Award for Best Song in 2000. It was written by Jorge Calandrelli, Tan Dun , and James Schamus It was performed by Coco Lee, who also performed the song live at the...
  
   (English) 3:46
• 15. A Love Before Time (Mandarin) 3:38
• 16. Green Destiny (Love Theme) 2:21 (Bonus on Japanese edition)

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