Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre)

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Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre)
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Studio album by
Released15 February 2013 (2013-02-15)
Genre Electronic
Length45:00
Label Mute Records
Producer
Apparat chronology
The Devil's Walk
(2011)
Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre)
(2013)
LP5
(2019)

Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre) is a studio album by Apparat. It was released on Mute Records on 15 February 2013. The album is a music adaption based on a score for a theatrical production of War and Peace .

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 70/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Consequence of Sound C+ [3]
Drowned in Sound 9/10 [4]
Exclaim! 9/10 [5]
Fact 3.5/5 [6]
Pitchfork 7.5/10 [7]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 70, based on 11 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Sascha Ring.

No.TitleLength
1."44"2:37
2."44 (Noise Version)"6:46
3."LightOn"5:23
4."Tod"2:47
5."Blank Page"4:39
6."Pv"6:46
7."K&F Thema (Pizzicato)"3:12
8."K&F Thema"4:18
9."Austerlitz"3:21
10."A Violent Sky"5:11
Total length:45:00

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Charts

ChartPeak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [9] 72
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [10] 135

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