The Meadow (Alexandre Desplat cover): Violin & Piano

The Meadow: Violin & Piano Duet
Composer: Alexandre Desplat

I liked the sound of this song as solo piano-- so I was curious to see how it might sound on the violin as well. This is our duo interpretation of the piece.

If this song sounds familiar, it was used as the orchestral theme for the official soundtrack of "New Moon." The piano version was also on the soundtrack for an episode of CSI. It was in a scene in the lab-- where Grissom was at his desk, sitting and thinking in the dark office while trying to solve a difficult case.

Sheet Music:
If you like the piano version, Youtube user "karim11y" has a great piano cover with links to his sheet music.
For Violin Music: I don't have any notes written down, but for the most part, it can be played by reading the melody line from the piano sheets.

About the composer:
Alexandre Michel Gérard Desplat (born 23 August 1961) is a French film composer. He has been nominated three times for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe for his score to the film The Painted Veil.

Desplat has extensively composed for films, first in France and later in Hollywood, including scores and incidental music for some 100 films among which are Lapse of Memory and Family Express (both 1992), Regarde Les Hommes Tomber (1994), Les Péchés Mortels (1995), the César nominated Un Héros Très Discret (1996), Une Minute De Silence and Sweet Revenge (both 1998), Le Château Des Singes (1999), Home Sweet Home and Reines D'Un Jour (both 2001), the César nominated Sur Mes Lèvres (2002), Rire Et Châtiment (2003), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I (2010), among others.

Desplat has composed individual songs that have been sung in films by artists such as Akhenaton, Kate Beckinsale, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Valérie Lemercier, Miosotis, and Catherine Ringer. He has also written music for the theatre, including pieces performed at the Comédie Française. Desplat has conducted performances of his music played by the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Munich Symphony Orchestra. In addition to his composing and performing, Desplat has also given Master Classes at La Sorbonne in Paris and at London's Royal College of Music.

In 2007 he composed the scores for Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass; Zach Helm's directorial debut Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium with American composer Aaron Zigman; and the Ang Lee movie Lust, Caution. Prior to these breakout works, he contributed scores for The Luzhin Defence, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Syriana, Birth, Hostage, Casanova, The Nest and The Painted Veil, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Music, and the 2006 World Soundtrack Award. He won the 2007 BMI Film Music Award, 2007 World Soundtrack Award, 2007 European Film Award, and received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score for The Queen. He also won the Silver Berlin Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for Best Film Music in The Beat that My Heart Skipped. In 2008, Desplat received his second Oscar nomination for David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Desplat received his third Oscar nomination and a BAFTA nomination for Fantastic Mr. Fox in 2010.

Recently, Desplat has composed music for Largo Winch, based on the Belgian comic; Afterwards a French-Canadian psychological thriller film directed by Gilles Bourdos in English; Anne Fontaine's Coco avant Chanel based on the life of designer Coco Chanel; Robert Guédiguian's L'Armée du Crime; Cheri, reuniting him with director Stephen Frears, whom he collaborated with on The Queen; Un Prophète reuniting with director Jacques Audiard; Julie & Julia directed by Nora Ephron; Fantastic Mr. Fox, directed by Wes Anderson and based on the novel by Roald Dahl; and New Moon, directed by Chris Weitz.

Desplat's upcoming projects are The Tree of Life, directed by Terrence Malick, The Ghost Writer, directed by Roman Polanski, Largo Winch 2, The Special Relationship, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I.

Source: Wikipedia

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[ILuvTheColorBlu]

just so beautiful, gorges, no words to describe this

[xxSprinkleMasterxx]

This music makes babies

stop crying

[DuEsTErPfoTE]

@Lolaatske me too 8DD

[AnnemarieLief]

Wow! This is awesome! :) 

[MistressMoon2006]

Just beautiful! Makes me miss playing the violin!!!

[magicabelle]

i'm crying....really nice song

[Lolaatske]

luckey me! I play violin AND piano!

[luisramos19]

Beautiful vibrato and glissando and a very lovely piece

[LoVeGirLHaL]

Just love with *__*

[chloe123011]

I love how that they put the actual composer of the song and didn't group it in with Twilight.

[NazzyWazzy19]

@afreakofnature26 well this is just one person's opinion; yes I think with that particular song, the violin should be softer, but it's still very good

[afreakofnature26]

@NazzyWazzy19 the violin's sound should be softer right ?