Battleship Potemkin (album)
Occupation
- Neil Tennant: music and lyrics
- Torsten Rasch: Composition (1, 4-10, 14, 15 )
- Jonathan Stockhammer: Conductor (1, 4-10, 14, 15 )
- Dresden Symphony Orchestra: Orchestra (1, 4-10, 14, 15 )
- Pete Gleadall: Programming
- Dave Clayton: Additional Programming, Keyboards
- Markus Schwind: Trumpet
Battleship Potemkin is a 2005 published film music album of the Pet Shop Boys Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe. The album was recorded by Tennant and Lowe together with the Dresden Symphony Orchestra as a combination of electronic and orchestral music and was designed as a retrospective soundtrack for the 1925 silent film The Battleship Potemkin created by director Sergei Eisenstein.
The Dresden Symphony Orchestra played under the direction of Jonathan Stockhammer; the composition was from Torsten Rasch. The album was produced by the Pet Shop Boys and the music producer Sven Helbig.
The project
In April 2003, suggested Philip Dodd, director of the London Institute of Contemporary Arts, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, writing for Eisenstein's classic silent film a new soundtrack. Dodd had previously performed an offer of London's mayor Ken Livingstone to conduct an event in Trafalgar Square.
Tennant and Lowe made contact to the Dresden composer Torsten Rasch, after they got to know whose song cycle " My heart burns ", which was based on songs of the band Rammstein. Rasch's compositions have been recorded in July 2004 by the Dresden Symphony Orchestra in Berlin.
The gig in Trafalgar Square attracted approximately 25,000 visitors. From September 2005, the Pet Shop Boys and the Dresden Symphony Orchestra while in Frankfurt am Main (September 2 ), Bonn (September 3 ), Berlin ( September 4th ) and Hamburg occurred in Germany, occurred (September 5 ). On 20 July 2006, the Live Presentation skyscraper Symphony followed the Prague line in Dresden.
Other performances of the work in the UK followed in 2006 and 2008.
Title list
Criticism and chart success
The album was recorded mostly positive critical acclaim. So part of the critics praised the successful synthesis of traditional elements of classical music and modern electro-pop.
"And what seems at first glance like a too risky undertaking, soon turns out as successful combination of tradition and modernity. "
" " Battleship Potemkin " is not a pop album for daily alongside use. It's almost contemporary classical music. "
"Even without film Battleship Potemkin is a delight. Tennant and Lowe prove in the new musical genre once again that they have mastered the interplay of sounds, beats and melodies masterfully. "
The album reached in Germany for a week, the chart position 54