| | I haven't listened to Orbit, I'll have to check him out, but I have heard a lot of attempts to synth/computerize classical compositions, some with success, most failures, two successes that come to mind are most the works for Wendy Carlos, famous for the Ludwig Van soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange back in the 70s and much more recently, Venetian Snare's 2005 'Rossz Csillag Alatt Született', a combination of IDM, Hungarian Symphonic works and downtempo jazz and jazz vocals.
Why it works, I'm not a musicologist, but they aren't so overawed with the technology that the music is subverted in the attempt to be high tech and they aren't so slavish to the original that it simply sounds like a poor/mediocore cover song, but reflects the character of the composer as well.
In Venetian Snare's case (I'm not aware of how Wendy Carlos worked), its one guy sitting behind his computer and a couple keyboards making compositions -- not too far away from what Beethoven, etc. did back in the day -- perhaps, given the choice, Mozart, etc. would have prefered a computer to work with than a live orchestra and all the extra patronage, work, cost and politics that required.
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