Tan Dun (谭盾) - The Martial Arts Trilogy (2011) [APE]

SiempreII · 23/2/13

The Martial Arts Trilogy
TAN DUN (谭盾)

Tan Dun (谭盾) (born August 15, 1957, Si Mao, Hunan) is a Chinese contemporary classical composer, most widely known for his scores for the movies Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero.

The Martial Arts Trilogy features music from three martial arts film soundtracks composed by Tan Dun. Soloists are the celebrated Lang Lang (The Banquet), Yo-Yo Ma (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and Itzhak Perlman (Hero). This compilation encompasses the music from all three soundtracks where the soloists have been featured. The Martial Arts Trilogy Tour will bring Tan Dun's music to large audiences at a series of top locations. Between July and September he will conduct his compositions at venues such as the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, and in New York as part of the Lincoln Center Out of Doors program.

Of the many Chinese-born composers who have settled in the U.S. and celebrated their cross-cultural credentials through fusing Western and Eastern musical elements, none has done it quite so vividly as Tan Dun. He has written that he composes as “a path towards reconciliation of my own personal past and present, and a quest for human roots. It is music for and about people.” So it seems entirely appropriate that his music first hit phenomenal international popularity in 2000, not with a concert work, but with his first venture into the world of movie scores, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

He has since written a lot of equally evocative Western-tinged Chinese music for the concert hall and the cinema but, rather like Bruch and his G minor Violin Concerto, or Barber and his Adagio for Strings, he has never really been able to escape the huge success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. This latest release includes four tracks from that soundtrack along with several from two subsequent movie scores.

Each of the original movie scores was centered around a leading performer. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon has Yo-Yo Ma exuding atmosphere and nostalgia for the homeland in some particularly soulful cello writing. The first three tracks set a clear if dreamy mood for the opening of this Martial Arts Trilogy, but with the fourth things rather go astray musically with a dismal attempt at American soul music. ‘A Love Before Time’ sees Yo-Yo Ma pushed aside in favor of Hong Kong starlet CoCo Lee struggling not to sound like a rejected American Idol giving a final, tear-stained rendition. It might work in the cinema; it does not work here.

Lang Lang takes centre stage for five numbers from the score to the 2006 movie The Banquet (released in the U.S. as Legend of the Black Scorpion). This is the least obviously Chinese of the three, at times sounding more like a Bollywood dance sequence or outtakes from Kismet, but otherwise content to unfold a series of unfocused mood pictures in which Lang Lang does little more than dribble aimlessly over the keys as if in a trance.

On the other hand, when it comes to investing deep emotion into the most trite musical patterns, no one does it better than Lang Lang, and the force of his artistic personality manages to sidestep comparisons with Richard Clayderman – although it comes pretty close in places. In a saccharine-laden ‘Only for Love’, where Jane Lian Ying Zhang oozes out Chinese words of love to the Shanghai Opera Chorus’s lyrical oohing and aahing, he ripples delicately over some inoffensive arpeggios, but even he cannot make the ‘Sword Dance’ sound like anything other than an instrumental version of the Tammy Wynette classic, Stand by your Man.

The most successful music in the context of this CD comes from the 2002 movie Hero. The headline soloist is Itzhak Perlman, but in reality he shares the honors with the potent ethnic drums of Kodo and the Ancient Rao Ensemble of Changsha Museum. Neither is Perlman the only violin soloist in these four tracks. Tan himself takes over the instrument in the final two numbers, his ‘Sorrow in Desert’ duet with the ethnic percussionists, in particular, is an ingenious piece of fusion music with the violin magically evoking the sounds of ancient Chinese strings.

The performances from three orchestras – Shanghai Symphony, Shanghai National and China Philharmonic – are very good indeed, and the recording nicely balanced to give the whole thing a slightly romantic sheen. But this is essentially mood music which is clearly designed to accompany visual images. Heard in isolation, after the initial ear candy of exotic sounds, The Martial Arts Trilogy quickly outlives its 44-minute playing time.
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Tracklist:
I FROM “CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON” (FEAT. YO YO MA) 选自《卧虎藏龙》(马友友-大提琴)
01 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 《卧虎藏龙》主题曲
02 The Eternal Vow 《卧虎藏龙》之“永恒的誓言”
03 Silk Road 丝绸之路
04 A Love Before Time 《卧虎藏龙》之“月光爱人”(英文版)——Coco Lee 李玟

II FROM “THE BANQUET” (FEAT. LANG LANG) 选自《夜宴》(郎朗-钢琴)
05 The Banquet 《夜宴》主题曲
06 Waiting 《夜宴》之“孤独的等待”
07 In The Bamboo Forest 《夜宴》之“剑舞飞翔”
08 Sword Dance 《夜宴》之“生死竹林”
09 Only For Love 《夜宴》主题曲“我用所有报答爱”

III FROM “HERO” (FEAT. ITZHAK PERLMAN) 选自《英雄》(帕尔曼-小提琴)
10 Hero: Overture 《英雄》之“苍：序曲”
11 For The World - Theme Music 《英雄》之“天下：英雄主题”
12 Sorrow In Desert 《英雄》之“悲情沙漠”
13 Farewell, Hero 《英雄》之“英雄葬礼”

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