BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN CENTENARY CELEBRATION
ICONIC SILENT FILM WITH SCORE BY PET SHOP BOYS
THE 2005 SOUNDTRACK REMASTERED AND RELEASED ON VINYL FOR THE FIRST TIME ON SEPTEMBER 5
To mark the centenary of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary silent film Battleship Potemkin, the celebrated score by Tennant and Lowe of Pet Shop Boys will be released on a remastered 1CD and on vinyl for the first time on a double LP by Parlophone Records.
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 September 12, 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.
Tracklisting
'Comrades!'
Men And Maggots
Our Daily Bread
Drama In The Harbour
Nyet
To The Shore
Odessa
No Time For Tears
To The Battleship
After All (The Odessa Staircase)
Stormy Meetings
Night Falls
Full Steam Ahead
The Squadron
For Freedom
About the Pet Shop Boys:
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.