Pieces in a modern style, what is that you may say. Well, Mr Orbit, of Madonna production fame has reworked 11 classical pieces of music, using today’s electronic equipment. Oh my god, you could shriek, Heathen, philistine, butcher. Ahhhhh, go all the classical music lovers. Well that is one reaction, here is a more considered one.
Does this work? Well the answer is partly, of course the single from this Album was Adagio for strings, that haunting piece by Barber, famously used by Platoon and the reworking of this track works, because it sticks closely to the original, although synthesised violins cannot match the real stuff.
Other pieces include those by Beethoven, Vivaldi and Handel, and these are better as there has been some real re-working of the music to make it fit a modern style. There are some other lesser known composers works used such as Gorecki and Satie, I certainly had not heard of them and so these pieces were completely new to me.
As a person who likes classical music, but is not an avid collector, (I have about 7 classical CD’s), this CD is quite refreshing, it is certainly relaxing to listen to and had 2 or three excellent tracks. A few re-workings do not work which lets the album down a bit. But then this was an excellent idea and has been well executed.
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This album is still in the top whatever in the Classic FM charts and features quite often in the station, so not all Classical charts are fascists. Good op.
crustypaul 31.01.2001 22:50
Someone told me that this album was at number one in the classical music charts for ages until the people in charge realised it was all done by one bloke and a lot of synthesisers, then they banned it from the chart. Sounds like musical fascism to me.
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