StreamingSoundtracks.com - Girl With A Pearl Earring

#	Track Listing	Length	Played
01	Girl With A Pearl Earring Alexandre Desplat	2:15	47
02	Griet's Theme Alexandre Desplat	4:06	193
03	A New Life Alexandre Desplat	3:04	41
04	The Master's House Alexandre Desplat	3:12	23
05	Camera Obscura Alexandre Desplat	1:25	16
06	The Birth Feast Alexandre Desplat	2:44	18
07	Cornelia Alexandre Desplat	1:42	11
08	Vermeer's Studio Alexandre Desplat	3:05	41
09	Winter Nights Alexandre Desplat	2:05	36
10	Van Ruijven Alexandre Desplat	3:31	10
11	Home Alexandre Desplat	1:12	10
12	Colours In The Cloud Alexandre Desplat	3:26	77
13	The Master Is Painting Alexandre Desplat	2:03	13
14	By The Canal With Pieter Alexandre Desplat	1:44	10
15	Catharina's Pearls Alexandre Desplat	1:21	10
16	Colours In The Clouds (Strings) Alexandre Desplat	3:25	93
17	Girl With A Pearl Earring (Reprise) Alexandre Desplat	2:18	18
18	Silence And Light (Piano Solo) Alexandre Desplat	1:31	36
19	Griet's Theme (Reprise) Alexandre Desplat	4:12	160
20	Griet Remembers Alexandre Desplat	0:47	9

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Reviewers Rating

1 review done for this album.

A musical painting

By:	tinkerbelle
Date:	11 Sep 2009
Rating:

Desplat wasn’t much known outside Europe before he composed the score to Girl with a pearl earring. Thankfully this has changed since then.

The Soundtrack fits perfectly to the movie’s atmosphere: Two themes are the basis of the ST – the slightly restraint one for Vermeer and the charming and catchy theme for Griet.
Those themes work their way through the whole Soundtrack, but the music never sounds redundant – thanks to a real masterly orchestration. Desplat uses mainly strings and hoodwinds, but also integrates rarely heard instruments like viola d’amore (Track 11) and Glass harp (Track 5, 6).
Tracks 9, 12 and 16 are imO perfect musical expressions of the impressions a painter gathers to create a painting.

It’s a wonderfully romantic, mysterious and melancholic music that unfolds its congeniality the more, the more often you listen to it.

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