True Love Waits: O'Riley Plays Radiohead
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Composer: RadioheadComposer: Unspecified
Performer: Christopher O'Riley
Edition: Music CD
Published: 2003
CD Release Date: 2003-06-10
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Everything In Its Right Place
- Knives Out
- Black Star
- Karma Police
- Let Down
- Airbag
- Subterranean Homesick Alien
- Thinking About You
- Exit Music (For A Film)
- You
- Bulletproof
- Fake Plastic Trees
- I Can't
- True Love Waits
- Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Hit: 5 Stars
Ove the last decade or so, Radiohead has created some of the most complex and mind-blowing rock music out there, and I wondered if a solo pianist could really capture their essence. However, O'Riley does a marvelous job, and brilliantly conveys the melancholy, mysterious, and introspective qualities of Radiohead. His renditions of "Fake Plastic Trees" and "Let Down" are particularly powerful. What I really loved about this cd is while I could follow all of the songs he played, at times I felt like I was listening to a timeless piano sonata by Beethoven, and even a Nocturne by Chopin or Brahms. Overall, this is a faithful interpretation by an excellent musician who honors one of the greatest bands of recent times, while also paying hommage to his classical heritage. This cd is a must buy for even the casual Radiohead fan or anyone who enjoys solo piano.
True Love Waits: O'Riley Plays Radiohead Poster
Rock bastardizations of classical music are as old as Kim Fowley's--and ELP's--Tchaikovsky tweaking "Nutrocker." But classical interpretations of rock music have generally been something of a high-wire act. While most pop fare has strong melodic foundations for the soloist to build from, Christopher O'Riley has challenged himself here with the catalog of Radiohead, one of modern rock's most acclaimed--and texturally complex--bands. O'Riley's insightful gifts for interpretation (which have previously enlightened everything from Stravinsky to P.D.Q. Bach) produce a hypnotic, emotionally compelling listening experience here; O'Riley is a huge Radiohead fan, and that love courses through everything from the dreamy, bittersweet title track through the brooding loveliness of "Let Down." Radiohead's stock in trade is dense, multi-layered music that leans heavily on electronic processing for its moody sonic atmospherics; O'Riley's evokes those complex textures with but a judicious use of the sustain peddles, a deft use of dissonance (as on "Knives Out"), and a rhythmically anxious left hand. Call them etudes for the post-modern age if you will, but O'Riley's performances here largely achieve what all great interpretations strive for: New insight and enlightenment. --Jerry McCulleyAlternative Rock Music CDs
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