Various Artists - The Painted Veil (CD)

Music Composed and Conducted by Alexandre DesplatFeaturing World-Renowned Piano Virtuoso Lang Lang"Prodigiously gifted" (Gramophone) pianist Lang Langis featured in Golden Globe nominee (Girl With A Pearl Earring) Alexandre Desplat's evocative score for the new film version of W. Somerset Maugham's celebrated novel, The Painted Veil. A turbulent romantic drama set in the 1920s, The Painted Veil, directed by John Curran and Caroline Link, follows a young English couple, a conservative doctor ( Edward Norton) and a restless society girl ( Naomi Watts), who marry hastily, relocate to Shanghai where they betray each other, and find an unexpected chance at redemption and happiness while on a deadly journey into the heart of ancient China.