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The Painted Veil: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack,Alexandre Desplat

- The Painted Veil: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Alexandre Desplat
Released 2007

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02:49
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- 1
- The Painted Veil
- 03:18
- 2,483 plays

- 2
- Gnossienne No.1 - Lent
- 03:22
- 2,683 plays

- 3
- Colony Club
- 02:08
- 1,123 plays

- 4
- River Waltz
- 02:23
- 2,439 plays

- 5
- Kitty's Theme
- 03:07
- 1,579 plays

- 6
- Death Convoy
- 02:49
- 1,136 plays

- 7
- The Water Wheel
- 06:20
- 1,184 plays

- 8
- The Lovers
- 01:26
- 999 plays

- 9
- Promenade
- 02:04
- 1,130 plays

- 10
- Kitty's Journey
- 02:49
- 885 plays

- 11
- The Deal
- 03:22
- 839 plays

- 12
- Walter's Mission
- 03:55
- 853 plays

- 13
- The Convent
- 00:50
- 781 plays

- 14
- River Waltz
- 02:26
- 2,030 plays

- 15
- Morning Tears
- 01:51
- 1,400 plays

- 16
- Cholera
- 04:22
- 826 plays

- 17
- The End Of Love
- 04:34
- 1,045 plays

- 18
- The Funeral
- 00:51
- 927 plays

- 19
- From Shangai To London
- 02:03
- 832 plays

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album review

Alexandre Desplat's score for director John Curran's film adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham novel The Painted Veil, about a British couple who travel to China in the 1920s, is not specifically Oriental in tone. But it does have a sense of reserve and a contemplative feel much of the time. The dominant soloist is young Chinese classical pianist Lang Lang, although Vincent Segal's electric cello is also given generous solo space. Desplat provides a lovely "River Waltz," played both orchestrally and as a piano piece by Lang. "The Water Wheel" is a percussion-heavy cue with Desplat himself contributing. (He also plays flutes, piano, and keyboards himself on the soundtrack.) "Cholera," a cue coming toward the film's climax, has the repetitive rhythm of a Philip Glass piece, but that's as assertive as Desplat gets in a score that manages to maintain a mood simultaneously restrained and ominous. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide