Track Listing

1. The Painted Veil - Lang Lang, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Alexandre Desplat, Vincent Segal
2. No. 1 - Lent - Lang Lang, Erik Satie
3. Colony Club - Lang Lang, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Alexandre Desplat
4. River Waltz - Lang Lang, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Alexandre Desplat
5. Kitty's Theme - Lang Lang, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Alexandre Desplat
6. Death Convoy - Prague Symphony Orchestra, Alexandre Desplat
7. The Water Wheel - Prague Symphony Orchestra, Alexandre Desplat
8. The Lovers - Lang Lang, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Alexandre Desplat
9. Promenade - Lang Lang, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Alexandre Desplat, Vincent Segal
10. Kitty's journey - Prague Symphony Orchestra, Alexandre Desplat
11. The deal - Prague Symphony Orchestra, Alexandre Desplat
12. Walter's mission - Lang Lang, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Alexandre Desplat, Vincent Segal
13. The Convent - Prague Symphony Orchestra, Alexandre Desplat
14. River Waltz - Lang Lang, Alexandre Desplat
15. Morning Tears - Lang Lang, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Alexandre Desplat, Vincent Segal
16. Cholera - Lang Lang, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Alexandre Desplat, Vincent Segal
17. The End of Love - Prague Symphony Orchestra, Alexandre Desplat, Vincent Segal
18. The Funeral - Prague Symphony Orchestra, Alexandre Desplat
19. From Shangai to London - Lang Lang, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Alexandre Desplat

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30665 in Music
• Released on: 2007-02-19
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Dimensions: .22 pounds
• Running time: 54 minutes

Customer Reviews

Beautiful sonic painting in water colours
This original soundtrack ranks among the best by French composer Desplat, and certainly among the best of such genre, the Schindler's List included.
The music as well as the performance were superb. Too sad that the sound engineer passed away shortly after this track was being completed.
While Chinese pianist Lang Lang is not known primarily for playing French repertoire, his interpretation of Desplat's score and the Satie piece are totally in sync with the style.
Especially enchanting are the predominantly watery images employed in the music.
It would have been perfect if the French song was being included, as well as the Chinese opera excerpt.

Haunting
This is a masterpiece. The music haunted me through the film, especially Gnossience no1. This is a proper sound track that speaks through the movie and delights on it's own.

Beautiful music but not for the hard of hearing.
Beautiful collection of melodies and very well played too. The satie track is slightly too staccato for my taste but never really irritating. A must-buy for anyone who has seen this film, which is also excellent. Only four stars because the recording level is so low. Rip it off to MP3 and you'll have trouble hearing it. I have some upscaling software which has solved this problem for me but most people won't know what that is or how to use it so beware.