The Promise [Original Score] (2006)

About this title: Chinese director Chen Kaige is nothing if not ambitious, which he demonstrated in his biggest Western success, Farewell My Concubine (1993), and The Promise is another example of his large-scale filmmaking approach. Reportedly the most expensive movie ever made in China, it is a sort of fairy tale, romance, and war epic, set, as Kaige puts it, "3,000 years ago in the future, somewhere in Asia," involving a goddess, a slave girl who becomes a princess, a general, more than one tragic love story, and lots of battle scenes. As such, A-list Hollywood composer Klaus Badelt (Gladiator, Pirates of ... read more

Tracks:

1. Freedom of the Wa [Badelt]
2. Wuji -- Main Theme [Badelt]
3. Love Theme [Badelt]
4. Kunlun, the Slave [Badelt]
5. Qingcheng, the Princess [Badelt]
6. Guangming, the General [Badelt]
7. Wuhuan, the Duke [Badelt]
8. Princess Kite [Badelt]
9. The Promise [Badelt]
10. Snow Country [Badelt]
11. The Robe [Badelt]
12. Save the King [Badelt]
13. Guilang, the Assassin [Badelt]
14. Saving a Princess [Badelt]
15. Feather Fight [Badelt]
16. Waterfall [Badelt]
17. Stampede [Badelt]
18. Come Back [Badelt]
19. Birdcage [Badelt]
20. Wuhuan's Plan [Badelt]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.