Two tracks featuring two masters of film music with very different musical sensibilities
Superbly performed by the London Music Works
The Meadow
from The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Composed by Alexandre Desplat
Assigned to the solo piano, this track is the love theme in its most basic, simplified state, with a real sense of movement and emotion.
In The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the composer’s sound world dwells on the forbidden romance fused with homage to classic vampire and horror films from the past, with even the most tender moments in the score having a sense of danger and uneasiness.
Treating it as both a longing love story and an epic, Maurice Jarre was the only reference composer Alexandre Desplat and director Chris Weitz used while creating the sound world for the film. Alexandre Desplat actually dedicated the score to Maurice Jarre.
Edward At Her Bed (Bella’s Lullaby)
from Twilight
Composed by Carter Burwell
"... there’s no denying the important, almost ever-present power that Burwell’s work gives to the film’s dreamy atmosphere.”
- Daniel Schweiger, Film Music Magazine
“Bella's Lullaby," as it appears in this film, was not written to be a lullaby but to speak of love - ecstatic, tormented love. The theme was written for the composer’s wife. Years ago she briefly left him, he was heartbroken, then wrote a piece trying to express the “thrill and pain of having his heart pierced”. She wouldn’t speak to him so he sent her the music to speak in his place.
In this scene Edward plays piano for Bella. The actor Rob Pattinson (Edward) is a fine musician and actually plays the piano in the scene.
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