Fu-Tong Wong – Symphony: the Hero with Great Eagle (MP3 -v2)

Fu-Tong Wong
SYMPHONY: THE HERO WITH GREAT EAGLE
Voronezh State Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Mak Ka-lok

MP3 -v2 | 8 Movements | 01:03:38 | 85 MB

Release Year: 2004
Label: Wong’s Music and Culture Inc.
Source: Xiami (http://www.xiami.com/album/418090)

1. Prelude
2. Waltz
3. Variations
4. Adagio
5. Rondo
6. Fugue
7. Dance
8. Fantasy

Commentated concert video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD_Lw2nGg2g

You can buy the CD/FLAC files on CD Baby (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/futongwong2).

Thanks to dnaught (http://forums.ffshrine.org/f92/big-orchestral-action-music-thread-57893/77.html#post1236816) who shared this in 2009 in the Big Orchestral Action Music Thread. His links are offline, so here’s a re-up in its own thread :’D

This eight-movement Symphony is based on Jin Yong’s beloved martial arts novel "The Return of the Condor Heroes". Chinese-American composer Fu-Tong Wong spent 28 years to bring this symphony alive to all those who love music, literature, and adventures.

About the style, well, what can I say? It’s massively conceived, symphonic majesty. It has a certain filmic quality (I mean that in the good way) whilst at the same time has the breadth and scope that you’d expect from a full length symphony. It’s not excessively Chinese in sound – it’s a very Westernised composition – Dance incorporates Chinese percussion but the language is very European. It doesn’t speak with the frenzied committee-driven overkill that you get in pieces like the Yellow River Concerto; it’s very direct and very beautiful.

Above all, it’s lyrical and very very warm!

To anyone who hasn’t downloaded the Symphony: Hero with Great Eagle yet, don’t miss out! This is a really impressive, sunny, melodic work, with beautifully buoyant orchestration. It reminds me a little of Vaughan Williams in places – not as brooding and melancholic, but very lush, with even a touch of gentile classicism to it. The Prelude is an odd opener, kaleidoscoping through many different ideas and themes, almost like a little sequence of incidental pieces. The other movements all have a defined, individualised character – ‘Fugue’ and ‘Variations’ being particularly expansive.

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tri2061990 has posted FLAC files here:
Fu-Tong WONG – Symphony: The Hero with Great Eagle [FLAC] (Thread 189471)

Very good. Thank you.

Amazing gem. Thank you!!!

Excellent!
Thanks very much!

Thanks a lot!

Thank you for re-upping Mr Salat. I liked the last two tracks best for their more Chinese flavour. There’s a superlative review at WONG Symphony WCD002 [Byz]: Classical Music Reviews – May 2011 MusicWeb-International (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2011/May11/Wong_WCD002.htm)

thanks

Thank you very much for this; it looks to be epic!

Thanks.

Thank you very much indeed!