Battleship Potemkin
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2005 |
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2003 |
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| Label (s) | Parlophone & EMI Classics | |||
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running time |
68:29 |
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Pet Shop Boys, Sven Helbig |
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Battleship Potemkin is a film music album released in 2005 by the two Pet Shop Boys Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe . The album was recorded by Tennant and Lowe together with the Dresden Sinfoniker as a combination of electronic and orchestral music and was conceived as a subsequent soundtrack for the silent film Battleship Potemkin by director Sergei Eisenstein , made in 1925 .
The Dresden Symphony Orchestra played under the direction of Jonathan Stockhammer ; the orchestration came from Torsten Rasch . The album was produced by the Pet Shop Boys and the music producer Sven Helbig .
The project
In April 2003, Philip Dodd , director of the London Institute of Contemporary Arts , suggested that Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe write a new soundtrack for Eisenstein's classic silent film. Dodd had previously accepted an offer from London Mayor Ken Livingstone to hold an event in Trafalgar Square .
Tennant and Lowe made contact with the Dresden composer Torsten Rasch after they got to know his song cycle “Mein Herz brennt”, which was based on pieces of music by the band Rammstein . Rasch's orchestrations were recorded in July 2004 by the Dresden Symphony Orchestra in Berlin .
The performance in Trafalgar Square drew around 25,000 visitors. From September 2005 the Pet Shop Boys and the Dresdner Sinfoniker appeared in Germany, performing in Frankfurt am Main (September 2), Bonn (September 3), Berlin (September 4) and Hamburg (September 5). On July 20, 2006, the high-rise symphony was staged live on Pragerzeile in Dresden .
Further performances of the work in Great Britain followed in 2006 and 2008.
Track list
- Comrades! - 3:52
- Men and maggots - 4:57
- Our daily bread - 0:52
- Drama in the harbor - 9:00 am
- Nyet - 6:14
- To the shore - 3:12
- Odessa - 6:50
- No time for tears - 4:32
- To the battleship - 4:34
- After all (The Odessa Staircase) - 7:23
- Stormy meetings - 1:31
- Night falls - 5:55 am
- Full steam ahead - 1:50
- The squadron - 4:24
- For freedom - 3:17
Criticism and chart successes
The album was received mostly positively by the critics. Some of the critics praised the successful synthesis of traditional elements of classical music and modern electro-pop .
"And what at first glance appears to be an overly daring undertaking quickly turns out to be a successful combination of tradition and modernity."
"Battleship Potemkin" is not a pop album for everyday sideline use. It's almost contemporary classical. "
“Even without a film, Battleship Potemkin is a pleasure. Tennant and Lowe prove once again in the new musical genre that they master the interplay of timbres, beats and melodies masterfully. "
The album reached chart position 54 in Germany for a week.
Web links
- Tennant / Lowe - Battleship Potemkin at discogs.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pet Shop Boys composed music for the "Panzerkreuzer" at Abendblatt.de, accessed on June 15, 2011
- ↑ The Pet Shop Boys honor Eisenstejn's classic film. Review by Daniel Straub at laut.de, accessed on May 15, 2011
- ↑ Children of the revolution at plattentests.de, accessed on May 15, 2011
- ↑ They can do that too. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at justmag.de, accessed on May 15, 2011
- ^ Tennant / Lowe - Battleship Potemkin at charts.de, accessed on June 11, 2011
