The best-loved theme songs of martial-arts dramas – from The Legend of the Condor Heroes to The Smiling, Proud Wanderer – played by Jinsheng Band with erhu, bamboo flute and electronic keyboard.
Jinsheng Band brings together players trained at leading music academies, with bowed strings, electronic keyboard and wind instruments. Its line-up pairs Chinese folk instruments with synthesizers, so familiar classics sound fresh. This programme features erhu player Liu Xiaotong, keyboardist Liu Jiayi and bamboo-flute player Lei Puyuan.
The concert is a journey through the world of wuxia – swordsmen, wandering knights and the romance of the jianghu. It revisits songs from the screen adaptations of Jin Yong's novels such as The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, The Legend of the Condor Heroes and The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, with Chinese and Western instruments giving a different voice to Swords Like a Dream, Hard-to-Recite Scripture and Laughing Once at the Vast Sea.
Full programme
- The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber – Love the Land, Love the Beauty More
- The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber – Swords Like a Dream
- My Own Swordsman – Song of the Wandering Knight
- Wong Fei-hung – A Man Must Strive
- Chinese Paladin – Always Quiet
- Chinese Paladin – Forget Time
- Chinese Paladin – Lifetimes of Love
- Chinese Paladin – Sha Po Lang
- The New Legend of Madame White Snake – Crossing with Love
- The New Legend of Madame White Snake – Wait for a Thousand Years
- A Chinese Ghost Story – A Chinese Ghost Story
- Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils – Tomb of Devotion
- Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils – Hard-to-Recite Scripture
- The Legend of the Condor Heroes – Iron-Blooded Loyal Heart
- The Legend of the Condor Heroes – The World Is Always Good to You
- The Return of the Condor Heroes – Lovers of the World
- The Return of the Condor Heroes – Return
- The Return of the Condor Heroes – Peerless
- The Smiling, Proud Wanderer – Laughing at the Mortal World
- The Smiling, Proud Wanderer – The Smiling, Proud Wanderer
- The Smiling, Proud Wanderer – Laughing Once at the Vast Sea