Organization

Admin

Beijing Music Festival

Conductor

Tan Dun

Orchestra

China Philharmonic Orchestra

Instrumentalist

Daniel Hope

Violine

Singer

Jiapeng Nie

Cello

Jaya Sun

Piano

Music for Heroes Poetry for the Screen Tan Dun's Martial Arts Trilogy in sight and sound

Beijing

China

Poly Theater

Music for Heroes Poetry for the Screen Tan Dun's Martial Arts Trilogy in sight and sound: Hero OST Dun (+2 More)

Public

Hero OST

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

The Banquet OST

Pallavi Pawar

Approved

Tan Dun / The Martial Arts Trilogy
(Synopsis)
Prologue: Future. On the water, the god of life-freeing, water, exacts its judgment to the violin, cello and piano with its waves and sound: "Why did you die on earth at the beginning, and now asked me to return you to human life and love again?" In the sound of water waves, violin (Zhang Yimou's Hero), cello (Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon) and piano ( Feng Xiaogang's Banquet), tell the story of a previous life on earth and answer the water god's judgment in sequence...
Tan Dun's The Martial Arts Trilogy tells three stories of love and death through wordless music and movie version : the violin in Hero loses her life for love; the cello sacrifices her life for a dream of Martial Arts; and the piano dies for revenge and desire. During the all night SoundVisual Drama, we watch and hear three solo characters (violin, the cello and the piano) tell their tales of time travel and resurrection through similar motifs (of rhythm, timbre and melody - same as the Wagner's “The Ring Cycle” ) that repeat and echo each other... At the end, water - the god of life - freeing, decided to grand the three beautiful humans (as represented by the three instruments) resurrection and live again in the human world to love once more...

English

谭盾音像剧《武侠三部曲》
（剧情大纲）
序：未来。放生之神 - 水，用它自身的浪声，正审判着小提琴、大提琴钢琴 : “当初你们仨，在地球是为何失去的生命，而如今，又为何让我 -放生你们复活人间，再活一次？再爱一回”？在水的浪涛声中，小提琴（张艺谋《英雄》）大提琴（李安《卧虎藏龙》）钢琴（冯小刚《夜宴》），讲述着上辈子在地球的故事，依次回答着放生之神 - 水的审判 .....
谭盾的音像剧《武侠三部曲》用无词的音乐和电影视觉，讲述了三个爱与死的故事：《英雄》中的小提琴 - 为爱失去了生命，《卧虎藏龙》中的大提琴 - 为武侠梦想献出了生命，《夜宴》中钢琴 - 却为了复仇与欲望失去了生命。在整晚音像剧中，我们将“视听”到三位独奏“人物主角”（小提琴、大提琴和钢琴）通过贯穿几部作品的固定动机 ( 节奏、音色、旋律 - 如瓦格纳的《指环》一样 ) 的呼应、重复，用声音和电影讲述了爱的穿越与复活之旅 ..... 尾声中，放生之神 ( 水 )，最终裁决让这三位美丽的人类（小提琴、大提琴、钢琴），放生复活，回到地球，再活一次，再爱一回 ......

中文

Music for Heroes Poetry for the Screen Tan Dun's Martial Arts Trilogy in sight and sound by Dun, From (2023/2023), Conductor Tan Dun, Poly Theater, Beijing, China

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Instrumentation

Ensemble

Programme, About & Synopsis

Photos

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

Venues