Battleship Potemkin by The Pet Shop Boys?!
Tennant/Lowe/Dresdner Sinfoniker(EMI/Parlophone)
CD Review: ***
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein’s silent film masterpiece Battleship Potemkin (1925) was re-scored in 2004 by Pet Shop Boys Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe for a free performance in Trafalgar Square. Titles such as ‘The Odessa Staircase’ echo those of Edmund Meisel’s original score, but now hints of Underworld complement the bass drones and swirling strings. It’s all going swimmingly until Tennant’s mock-Al Stewart kicks in, halfway through. A brave project, nonetheless. Find it here.
posted by Chris Bell at 11:53 AM
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