The Painted Veil [Soundtrack] [Import] [PR]
Alexandre Desplat
レーベル： Deutsche Grammophon
CD
発売日： 2007年1月9日(火)
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◎曲目リスト
- The Painted Veil
- Gnossienne No 1 (Erik Satie 1866-1925)
- Colony Club
- River Waltz
- Kitty's Theme
- Death Convoy
- The Water Wheel
- The Lovers
- Promenade
- Kitty's Journey
- The Deal
- Walter's Mission
- The Convent
- River Waltz
- Morning Tears
- Cholera
- The End of Love
- The Funeral
- From Shanghai to London
◎レビュー (Amazon)
While this soundtrack is very solid overall, it's also rather subdued and perhaps not as immediately likable as composer Alexandre Desplat's previous offerings (most notably The Queen and Syriana), so it could disappoint fans of the immensely gifted Frenchman. But a certain old-fashioned charm does operate after a while, which, after all, is exactly what you'd expect of the music for a movie based on a Somerset Maugham novel. Desplat set out to evoke 1920s romanticism with a series of brief vignettes, usually greatly enhanced by the sensitive playing of pianist Lang Lang. And considering that most of the movie takes place in China, Desplat has refrained from easy orientalism: "Walter's Mission" is one of the few tracks to allude to Asian sounds. The only non-original tracks on the CD is Erik Satie's well-known "Gnossienne No. 1," a slow piece that evidently served as inspiration for Desplat's own "River Waltz." But who's complaining? There are worse people to emulate than Satie. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
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