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Music - Pieces in a Modern Style
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Being a fan of ambient and electronica for some time, I decided to give this a try. I can understand how some may simply hear this as a cheesy reworking of the classics, just a man and his keyboard, but it's really much deeper than that if you just sit and listen. I suggest not comparing to the originals as much as enjoying what these pieces are themselves. A few tracks do lag, and there are quiet spots, but as a whole I find "Pieces In A Modern Style" to be almost hypnotic, and as I said in my review title, rather peaceful. The tracks I prefer the most are "Adiago For Strings", "Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo", "L'Inverno", and the music-box sounding "Triple Concerto". However the others are fine as well. I say, if you think you might like this, you probably will. It's well worth the used price if nothing else.
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With almost no drums or rythm intruments, this CD very quickly gets a bit dull. As ambient background music this might work but I hoped for something more catchy. The remix bonus CD is excellent though, but as this was one of the reasons I bought the album I was rather disappointed to learn the the bonus remix CD has only 2 tracks! :-(
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...this album attracts such mixed reviews. I feel one has to see it and use it for what it is, a simple and beautiful reworking of some classic peices with modern technological advances. It's not a philarmonic interpretaion, it never sets out to be and yet seems to attract hostile review simply because the music is not the production of an orchestra.
I think of it as like a costume drama by the BBC of some excellent Victorian novel, not as it was first intended in it's own time but a clever reworking and marketing for a modern audience thus allowing some history a new voice and a new audience. For that reason alone it desreves praise but also happens to be a beautiful and sensual album.
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How does one define excellence? This album is as close to being excellent as I know. William Orbit has taken the works of classical composers and remade them with synths, samplers and other electronic equipment and the end result is nothing short of stupendous, astounding and spectacular. There are many gems on this great piece of work and the ones that stand out particularly are nr 4, nr 1, nr 6 and nr 8. Orbit has created an album that sounds a bit like the old composers, a tad of Jarré some Vangelis and voila we have a modern day masterpiece. Orbit shows his mettle especially on track nr 8. I love this album and I never tire of it. This is a keeper for the ages.
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I'm a huge WO fan (yes, even his work with Madonna, which no doubt played no small part in her musical resurrection) and while you can pick out definite stylistic traits, this is just not well executed at all.
The string pads seem to be ubiquitous throughout, and it's not even an expressive string pad! There is little emotion here, like a lot of modern synthetic sounds, and so he's quite right: these are indeed pieces in a modern style.
If you want true-to-form synthesized symphonic music, try Jarre's "Equinoxe" or Schulze's "Timewind" for starters.
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