Tennant & Lowe - Battleship Potemkin (2023 Remaster) (2005/2025) [Official Digital Download]

Tennant and Lowe of Pet Shop Boys’ celebrated score, remastered and released on vinyl for the first time by Parlophone Records to mark the centenary of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary silent film Battleship Potemkin.

A fixture in the critical canon almost since its premiere, Eisenstein’s film about a 1905 naval mutiny was revolutionary in both form and content. Battleship Potemkin is renowned for its dynamic compositional strength and editing of such frame-perfect precision that it’s hard not to be swept along. The set-piece massacre on the Odessa Steps still packs a sledgehammer punch. First revealed at a free outdoor live performance and screening in front of an estimated 25,000 people in London’s Trafalgar Square on 12 September 2004, Pet Shop Boys’ score, performed with the Dresdner Sinfoniker conducted by Jonathan Stockhammer with orchestrations by Torsten Rasch, blends electronic beats with orchestral grandeur to create a rousing contemporary cinematic experience. Since the premiere, Pet Shop Boys with Dresdner Sinfoniker have performed the music with the film in European cities including Frankfurt, Bonn, Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, and Segovia, Spain. On May 1, 2006, Pet Shop Boys with the Northern Sinfonia, performed the music with the film at a special event at Swan Hunter’s shipyard, Wallsend. The first UK cinema screening with the recorded Tennant/Lowe score took place at BFI Southbank as part of the 2013 Meltdown Festival curated by Yoko Ono.

Pet Shop Boys have sold more than 50 million records, released 60 singles spanning five decades and are the most successful UK duo of all time. Prestigious awards have been numerous across their career including the BRIT Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music in 2009 and the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music in 2000. In April 2024 they released their fifteenth album, ‘Nonetheless’, on Parlophone Records – their first with producer James Ford. The record includes the singles ‘Loneliness’, ‘Dancing star’, ‘A new bohemia’ and ‘Feel’ and reached Number 2 in the UK album chart in its first week of release – their highest-charting studio album since 1993.

Pet Shop Boys:
Neil Tennant, vocals, keyboards, programming
Chris Lowe, vocals, keyboards, programming
Guest musicians:
Pete Gleadall, programming
Torsten Rasch, orchestrations
Jonathan Stockhammer, conductor
The Dresdner Sinfoniker (on all tracks except 2, 3, 11, 12 & 13)
Dave Clayton, additional programming and keyboards
Markus Schwind, trumpet

Digitally remastered.

Tracklist:
01 _Comrades!_ (2023 Remaster)
02 Men and Maggots (2023 Remaster)
03 Our Daily Bread (2023 Remaster)
04 Drama in the Harbour (2023 Remaster)
05 Nyet (2023 Remaster)
06 To the Shore (2023 Remaster)
07 Odessa (2023 Remaster)
08 No Time for Tears (2023 Remaster)
09 To the Battleship (2023 Remaster)
10 After All (The Odessa Staircase) (2023 Remaster)
11 Stormy Meetings (2023 Remaster)
12 Night Falls (2023 Remaster)
13 Full Steam Ahead (2023 Remaster)
14 The Squadron (2023 Remaster)
15 For Freedom (2023 Remaster)


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