Girl with a Pearl Earring (soundtrack)

Girl with a Pearl Earring
Soundtrack album by Alexandre Desplat
Released February 10, 2004
Recorded July 19, 2003 – July 23, 2003
Genre Soundtrack
Label Lions Gate
Alexandre Desplat chronology
Stormy Weather
(2003)		 Girl with a Pearl Earring
(2004)		 A Sight for Sore Eyes
(2003)

Girl with a Pearl Earring is the soundtrack, on the Lionsgate Records label, of the 2003 film Girl with a Pearl Earring starring Scarlett Johansson, Colin Firth, Tom Wilkinson, Cillian Murphy and Judy Parfitt. The original score was composed by Alexandre Desplat.

The album was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score (lost to the score of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King) and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music (lost to the score of Cold Mountain).

Track listing

  1. Girl with a Pearl Earring – 2:17
  2. Griet's Theme – 4:09
  3. New Life – 3:06
  4. Master's House – 3:18
  5. Camera Obscura – 1:29
  6. Birth Feast – 2:46
  7. Cornelia – 1:44
  8. Vermeer's Studio – 3:08
  9. Winter Nights – 2:07
  10. Van Ruijven – 3:33
  11. Home – 1:14
  12. Colours in the Clouds – 3:29
  13. Master Is Painting – 2:06
  14. By the Canal With Pieter – 1:46
  15. Catharina's Pearls – 1:23
  16. Colours in the Clouds – 3:27
  17. Girl with a Pearl Earring (Reprise) – 2:18
  18. Silence and Light – 1:40
  19. Griet's Theme (Reprise) – 4:19
  20. Griet Remembers – 0:59