Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0093624759621
Format: Enhanced
Label: Maverick
Manufacturer: Maverick
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Maverick
Release Date: February 22, 2000
Sales Rank: 4335
Studio: Maverick

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Disc 1:

1. Adagio for Strings - William Orbit, Barber, Samuel
2. In a Landscape - William Orbit, Cage, John [1]
3. Number 1 (remix)
4. Intermezzo (remix)
5. Pavane Pour une Infante Défunte - William Orbit, Ravel, Maurice
6. Excerpt (remix)
7. Excerpt (remix)
8. Xerxes - William Orbit, Handel, George Fred
9. 1 (remix)
10. 3 (remix)
11. Excerpt (remix)

Disc 2:

1. Adagio for Strings
2. Adagio for Strings

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
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 Kabuubi




Rating: - Impressive
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 ... Read More

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Rating: - Outstanding. A classic.
I have been working in electronic music for almost 20 years years. I have a massive library of music for almost any reason, mood and itch. Tonight, I am taking the five minutes to stop and write how unique, amazing and consistently refreshing this album is everytime I go back to it since the day it was released.

Highly Melodic, very electronic and overall lacking the percussive elements most have come to know when listening to Orbit.

Much more sophisticated than the average ... Read More

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Rating: - Pay not attention to the crab behind the curtain
I don't know who Maxine Kubabi is. She's certainly untitled to her opinion. An "ungainly meeting of the sublime and the absurd?" What a sublimely empty and inadequate statement.

You have to know something about a genre before you can be an effective critic inside it. You should be able to specify why you don't like something in some detail, rather than resort to crabby nebulousities ... that's greasy kid stuff.

What Orbit has done is to realize some old, familiar works in an ... Read More

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Rating: - This is incredible. Arrogant but incredible
I have been a fan William Orbit since Water from a vine leaf and I have to admit while this ins't exactly a electronica per se it is still amazing to see what he has done with our classics. The listening experience depends solely on the listener. More ambient than anything else I have heard though.

Recommended for William orbit and curious georges

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Rating: - not a rave
If you're looking for something to pop in late at night to dance to...this is not the album. This album is eery and some of it is painful. It's not full of upbeat electronics like originally thought it would be. But, I love it. It's great to listen to while just thinking...relaxing...reading...it's beautiful.

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