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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 Kabuubi
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Tracks| 1 | Adagio For Strings | | 2 | In A Landscape | | 3 | Ogive Number 1 | | 4 | Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo | | 5 | Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte | | 6 | L'Inverno | | 7 | Triple Concerto | | 8 | Largo From Xerxes | | 9 | Piece In Old Style I | | 10 | Piece In Old Style III | | 11 | Opus 132 | | 12 | Adagio For Strings: Ferry Corsten Remix | | 13 | Adagio For Strings: ATB Remix |
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