Kung Fu Panda 3

Kung Fu Panda 3 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 2016 film Kung Fu Panda 3, the third instalment in the Kung Fu Panda franchise and the sequel to Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011). The film score is composed by Hans Zimmer, who scored the previous instalments with John Powell, but the latter did not return for the third instalment, thereby Zimmer being credited as the sole composer for the franchise. The album was released by Sony Classical Records on January 29, 2016, to positive critical response. Development On July 25, 2014, it was announced that Hans Zimmer, who co-scored the first two instalments with John Powell, would return to score the film. Zimmer collaborated with renowned Asian musicians as "the only way you can really connect with a culture is to be respectful of the people who actually are that culture and play from that culture". Chinese pianist Lang Lang, Chinese cellist Jian Wang, erhu musician Guo Gan scoring the instrumental portions and Shanghai Roxi Musical Studio Choirs perform the choir, and several traditional Chinese instruments were used in the score, as Zimmer said "the great thing about being in music and it’s happened to me time and time again where I get to work with people from different cultures. They might not speak English or German or whatever is useful in my case, you spend a couple of hours with the translator not getting anywhere and then you just sit down and start playing and then four or five hours go by and you haven’t noticed that you haven’t said a word to each other but it works really well." Recording of the score took place from December 2014 – October 2015 at various studios, including Abbey Road Studios and Air Studios in London, Shanghai Broadcast Studio in Shanghai, China and Remote Control Productions in Santa Monica, California, United States. The London Session Orchestra and Metro Voices collaborated for the orchestral and choral portions. Taiwanese pop singer Jay Chou, and Canadian-Taiwanese young singer Patrick Brasca, perform the main theme "Try" in the end credits. Powell did not return for the third installment but despite this, most of the themes he collaborated with Zimmer were worked into the score. The soundtrack also includes additional music composed and produced by Chinese-American composer Nathan Wang, and Scottish composers Lorne Balfe, and Paul Mounsey, assisting Zimmer in the film score. Track listing