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Pieces in a Modern Style
by William Orbit
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Overall Rating:
2.4784
Avg. Critic Score:
2.4152
Pieces in a Modern Style Rank 2 Reviews
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MojoHis pieces are mostly drawn from moderns such as Cage, Gorecki, Barber, Satie and Ravel, and work best when mined for their luxuriant melancholy... ...more
Q MagazineFrom any conceivable angle, it is an indulgence... ...more
Dot MusicSometimes it works - notably with Gorecki's and Ravel's work - but it frequently misses the mark, with his reinterpretation of Handel's 'Xerxes' sounding something like incidental muzak from a low-budget US soap. ...more
New Musical ExpressBut if attempting to dress ancient monuments in radical, avant-garde clothing was always going to be a hit-and-miss project, he's still succeeded for the most part in making a richly ambient, evocative record from apparently staid and stale old material. ...more
SonicnetThe most memorable tracks on Pieces in a Modern Style feel like high-brow Puff Daddy songs... ...more
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Rolling Stonethe more you listen to Pieces in a Modern Style, the more warmth and affection you hear... They're not meant for classical purists; they're charming little curios for anyone who's interested in the process of reinvention -- or in just chilling out. ...more
The Onion (A.V. Club)Personal project or not, the pretty Pieces In A Modern Style isn't much more than a Hooked On... collection for a digital age. ...more
Rolling StoneOn first listen, master producer William Orbit's first solo album -- a selection of classical works by the likes of Samuel Barber, John Cage, Vivaldi and Henryk Górecki reinterpreted electronically -- sounds sweet and becalming, if a ...more
Yahoo! MusicWhen classical and pop meet, the traditional target audience tends to be those with little appreciation for either genre. So it takes a brave man – especially when the reputation in question is that of the Madonna -producing Orbit - to ...more
All Music GuideNo matter whose music he was reformulating, however, Orbit worked gently, creating an album that, if it technically belonged beside Wendy Carlos' Switched-On Bach, actually was more reminiscent of Brian Eno's Discreet Music. ...more
All Music GuideAfter years of making his own esoteric ambient albums and paying for them by doing dance remixes for pop acts, William Orbit hit the big time in 1998 by co-writing and producingMadonna'sRay of Lightalbum. With his own debut solo album ...more
New York MagazineIntermittently successful...[t]oo often, his faithfulness turns into meticulousness, resulting in an album that's as formally impressive but as snooze-inducingly detailed as a special-effects-addled blockbuster. ...more
Entertainment WeeklyWilliam Orbit has been taming the savage beat, with varying success, ever since his days as a techno-lite act during the '80s. It wasn't until Madonna's ''Ray of Light,'' which Orbit produced, that his style finally found a suitable home, ...more
Entertainment WeeklyRather than reinventing these centuries-old compositions, Orbit's snoozy-listening remakes only serve to surgically remove their innate drama. ...more
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