William Orbit - Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky)

William Orbit - Pieces in a Modern Style 2 / 2010 England (Decca Records)

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William Orbit (born William Mark Wainwright, 15 December 1956) is an English musician, composer and record producer, perhaps best known to most for his work on Madonna's album Ray of Light. He has also co-produced several unreleased Madonna songs originally recorded for other albums. He produced 13 by Blur and remixed some of the songs on the album. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Orbit

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The artist most often mentioned when discussing William Orbit's classical crossover albums is Wendy Carlos, whose synthesizer pieces of Bach piqued many a college student's interest during the early '70s. But on Pieces in a Modern Style 2, Orbit's second edition in a series that also includes 2000's original, he sounds like his closest inspiration is Tomita, the Japanese synth maestro who focused less on interpreting the classical canon than conveying the emotion and feel of these pieces, in a manner that struck classical fans as dumbing down the classics, but showed non-classical listeners a little bit of what's special about the form. Orbit's style here is close to Tomita's, with Casio synth of the late-'70s variety burbling arpeggios in the background while synth-strings play the basic melody of the piece. Orbit says in the notes that he's interested in classical music because of the way it's put together, but it's difficult to understand the meaning of such a simplistic statement. If he's talking about the basic elements of classical music -- complexity, harmonization, modulation, or musical form -- then these pieces don't measure up at all. What he's created is an introduction to the feel of classical music, but listeners, regardless of their enjoyment of classical music, should understand that the feel of the thing is far from the thing itself. http://www.allmusic.com/album/pieces-in-a-modern-style-2-r1944005/review


Swan Lake (Schwanensee)

Swan Lake (Russian: Лебединое озеро, Lebedinoye ozero) ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, composed 1875--1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. The choreographer of the original production was Julius Reisinger. The ballet received its première on March 4 [O.S. February 20] 1877 at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, billed as The Lake of the Swans. Although it is presented in many different versions, most ballet companies base their stagings both choreographically and musically on the 1895 revival of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, first staged for the Imperial Ballet on January 15, 1895, at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. For this revival, Tchaikovsky's score was revised by the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatre's chief conductor and composer Riccardo Drigo. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Lake

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[kikehippo]

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[zrnho]

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[olympiaherby]

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[TheSandrolina]

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@O9ALa Dankeschön! Thanks for watching. Dziękuję :)

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@VientDeMee Thank you very much my friend:)

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@bellerob Dank je wel Rob:) ("Original ist immer besser als Kopie")

[bellerob]

although I like the original more, this is quite good!

[VientDeMee]

Superb music and video! My congratulations!