Pieces in a Modern Style
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2000-02-22
Music Label: Maverick
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Adagio for Strings
- In a Landscape
- Ogive Number 1
- Cavalleria Rusticana
- Pavane Pour une Infante D?funte
- Inverno
- Triple Concerto
- Xerxes
- Piece in the Old Style 1
- Piece in the Old Style 3
- Opus 132
- Adagio for Strings [Remix by Ferry Corsten]
- Adagio for Strings [Remix by ATB]
Music reviews of Pieces in a Modern Style
Music Review: Impressive
Rating: 5 Stars
Being a fan of classic music as well of a fan of electronic music, this album blew me away, I often play this CD when I want to create a relaxed atmosphere and I know for a fact that 4 friends of mine have bought the CD after listening to it here with me.
Xerxes and Cavalleria rusticana are sublime achievements of production.
Mr. Orbit, "Hello waveforms" is great but you should take time to produce a second CD of pieces in a modern style.
PS: It's the perfect gift for classic music lovers, you can't expect them to have it and they'll love it for sure
Description of Pieces in a Modern Style
William Orbit's Pieces in a Modern Style is an ambient album that rejigs 11 works by classical composers in a particularly tacky fashion. Even though Orbit has proved his mettle as an innovative and exciting producer for others--Blur's 13 and Madonna's Ray of Light--this is an ungainly meeting of the sublime and the absurd that, frankly, doesn't work. Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings," Ludwig van Beethoven's "Triple Concerto," Henryk Gorecki's "Piece in the Old Style I," and Antonio Vivaldi's "L'Inverno" are four that unfortunately meet their maker in a crude pileup of flat, belching synths and wallpaper flourishes. If he had combined live instrumentation with a playful reverence for the arcane glories of the past, perhaps he could have managed to make reality out of that most elusive of notions: experimental music that actually sells. However, Orbit fails to do anything more than resemble a second-rate Vangelis. --Maxine KabuubiGeneral CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Chamber Music > General
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( B ) > Barber, Samuel
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- ( C ) > Cage, John
- ( G ) > G?recki, Henryk Mikolaj
- ( M ) > Mascagni, Pietro
- ( R ) > Ravel, Maurice
- ( S ) > Satie, Erik
- ( V ) > Vivaldi, Antonio
- Featured Performers, A-Z > ( B ) > Barber, Samuel
- Forms & Genres > Concertos > General
- Short Forms > Character Pieces
- Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750) > General
- Classical (c.1770-1830) > General
- Instruments > Electronic
- Keyboard > General
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Historical Periods > Romantic (c.1820-1910)
- Dance & Electronic > General
- Electronica
- Trance
- Miscellaneous > General
- Poetry, Spoken Word & Interviews > Poetry
- New Age > General
- Pop > General
- Rock > General
- Barber, Samuel - Works by Barber
- Beethoven, Ludwig van - Works by Beethoven
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