catalogue

WE STOOD LIKE KINGS

CLASSIC RE:WORKS (KAPITÄN PLATTE)

WE STOOD LIKE KINGS - CLASSIC RE:WORKS 142081
format:
1 CD
release:
02.10.2020
label:
KAPITÄN PLATTE
item ID:
142081
barcode:
4059251420811
Neoclassical post-rockers We Stood Like Kings saw the light of day in 2011. Almost a decade and 250 shows all over Europe later, this 4-piece piano-based band hailing from Brussels has become a reference act in live soundtracks to silent cinema, breathing new life into well-chosen masterworks of the seventh art.

Three movie concerts (BERLIN 1927, USSR 1926 and USA 1982) have shaped We Stood Like Kings' story so far.

Together, these form a vibrant trilogy portraying two empires already lost - pre-World War II Germany, the Soviet Union - and a third one - today's consumerist society - that seems to be running headlong towards its own destruction.

New perspectives unfold as universes meet: in 2020, We Stood Like Kings launches a new concept entitled CLASSICAL RE:WORKS, revisiting works from the whole classical music era.

What would Bach and Beethoven sound like if they lived today and chose post-rock as their creative outlet? You get the picture: We Stood Like Kings isn't a band like any other.

Every release is another opportunity to design new ways of blending their musical universe, now refined and textural, then epic and intense, with other art forms.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. KAROL SZYMANOWSKI 9 PRELUDES OP. 1 NO. 1 ANDANTE MA NON TROPPO
  • 1.2. ANTONIO VIVALDI CONCERTO FOR STRINGS IN D MINOR RV 127 ALLEGRO
  • 1.3. LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN PIANO SONATA NO. 14 IN C MINOR OP. 27 NO. 2 ANDANTE CLAUDE
  • 1.4. DEBUSSY RêVERIE L. 68
  • 1.5. MAURICE RAVEL DAPHNIS ET CHLOE M. 57 INTRODUCTION ET DANSE RELIGIEUSE
  • 1.6. LEOS JANáCEK GLAGOLITIC MASS JW 39 INTRODUCTION
  • 1.7. JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH ORGAN SONATA NO. 4 IN E MINOR BWV 528 ANDANTE