Yumeji's Theme (A cappella) by Shigeru Umebayashi – The Plum Forest Singers feat. Grace Davidson

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Yumeji's Theme (A cappella) by Shigeru Umebayashi – The Plum Forest Singers feat. Grace Davidson

This song is Shigeru Umebayashi’s a cappella version of the popular original track from the film ‘In The Mood For Love’.

Yumeji's Theme (A cappella) - Shigeru Umebayashi
Originally the theme from Wong Kar Wai's film 'In The Mood For Love' (2000)

Composer Shigeru Umebayashi
Conductor Nigel Short
Soloist Grace Davidson
Choir The Plum Forest Singers

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"Yumeji's Theme (A cappella) by Shigeru Umebayashi”

The music in this video is 'Yumeji's Theme' composed by Shigeru Umebayashi. It's also known as the theme from Wong Kar Wai's film 'In The Mood For Love' (2000).
The original version is scored for solo violin and pizzicato strings. The version on this video is for a cappella voices and features the British Soprano soloist Grace Davidson with the Plum Forest Singers conducted by Nigel Short.

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Shigeru Umebayashi

Shigeru Umebayashi (aka Ume) was born in Kitakyushu Japan.

He started composing film music in 1984 and his talent was immediately recognized in 1985, when the music he composed for the Japanese film production Sorekara (And Then) won several film music awards. He has since scored more than 30 Japanese Films.

Ume is also an internationally renowned film composer, best known for creating ‘Yumeji's Theme’ in Wong Kar-Wai's film In The Mood for Love as well as collaborating with Wong Kar-Wai on 2046. He was the music producer and composer for Zhang Yimou's films House of Flying Daggers and Curse of The Golden Flower and composed the end-title song ‘Lovers’ for the soprano Kathleen Battle.

Ume has proven his versatility in world cinema, working with such directors as Hong Kong's Ronny Yu for Jet Li's Fearless, Italy's Roberta Torre for Mare nero (Dark Sea), Serbia's Uros Stojanovic for Tears for Sale, England's Peter Webber for Hannibal Rising, Germany's Veit Helmer for Absurdistan and British director Sharon Maguire for Incendiary, starring Michelle Williams and Ewan McGregor.

He also contributed music to A Single Man, directed by Tom Ford (2009); Dias de gracia (Days of Grace) directed by Everardo Gout, winning the Mexican Academy Ariel Awards Best Score in 2012; Trishna, directed by Michael Winterbottom (2011); The Grandmaster, directed by Wong Kar-Wai (2013) winning jointly with French composer Nathaniel Mechaly the 2014 Best Composer Award at the 8th Asian Film Awards and 2014 Best Composer Award at the 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards; and Come il vento (Like the Wind) directed Marco Simon Puccioni (2013).

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