Pet Shop Boys - The Most Incredible Thing, Album [14/03/11]

Pet Shop Boys - The Most Incredible Thing
(Parlophone Records)



Tracklist
CD1:
ACT ONE
01. Prologue
02. The Grind
03. The Challenge
04. Help Me
05. Risk
06. Physical Jerks
07. The Competition
08. The Meeting
ACT TWO
09. The Clock 1/2/3
10. The Clock 4/5/6
11. The Clock 7/8/9
12. The Clock 10/11/12
13. The Winner
14. Destruction

CD2:
ACT THREE
01. Back to the grind
02. The Miracle - Ceremony
03. The Miracle - Revolution
04. The Miracle - Resurrection
05. The Miracle - Colour and Light
06. The Miracle - The Meeting (reprise)
07. The Wedding
08. The Clock 10/11/12

Release Date
14th March 2011

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Press Release
Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe release the music for their first ever full-length ballet, The Most Incredible Thing, on March 14 through Parlophone Records. The ballet is a collaboration with choreographer Javier De Frutos and Britain’s leading contemporary dance theatre, Sadler’s Wells. Based on the Hans Christian Anderson story of the same title, it runs at Sadler’s Wells in London from 17-26 March 2011.
Tennant and Lowe proposed Andersen’s story as the basis for a new ballet to Sadler's Wells in London in 2007 after a friend, the then Royal Ballet principal, Ivan Putrov, asked Neil Tennant if Pet Shop Boys would consider writing a piece of music for him to dance to at Sadler's Wells. Coincidentally a couple of days later, Chris Lowe suggested to Neil Tennant that "The Most Incredible Thing" would make an excellent narrative for a ballet and, inspired by this synchronicity, they approached Sadler's Wells with the project. The following year Javier De Frutos was chosen as the choreographer. The story is about a competition in a mythical kingdom where the King announces that whoever invents the most incredible thing will win the hand of the Princess in marriage and half of the Kingdom. What follows is creative, destructive but ultimately happy.
Tennant and Lowe composed most of Act One in autumn, 2008, and the rest of the score in 2010. The music is a combination of electronics and orchestra. They approached the young German musician Sven Helbig to create the orchestrations and at the end of 2010 these were recorded in Poland with the Wroclaw Score Orchestra conducted by Dominic Wheeler. After the initial run of performances of The Most Incredible Thing in March, a return to Sadler's Wells followed by a tour is planned for 2012.
Neil & Chris said: “This is a very exciting project to be part of. In the past we have written dance music so to write music for a ballet seems like a logical development. Also we have always been fascinated by giving our music a theatrical context.”
The score follows Tennant and Lowe’s critically acclaimed soundtrack to the classic silent film Battleship Potemkin. In 2004 they performed it with the Dresden Sinfoniker in a free concert in Trafalgar Square presented by the ICA. They have since performed it at various outdoor events in Germany, Spain and the UK.

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Edited by Luca EW - 14/3/2013, 17:46