Read the exclusive online supplement to this article:At the 2002 AES Convention, a new company called Vienna Symphonic Library (VSL) announced that it would soon release the largest, most versatile, and most realistic orchestral sample library ever attempted. With private funding and a seemingly unlimited budget, VSL had custom-built a state-of-the-art studio and recorded thousands of hours of samples played by world-class musicians from ensembles such as the Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestras. Led by visionary Herb Tucmandl, VSL had begun editing, processing, programming, and assembling those samples into a massive collection of unprecedented proportions. 1: Vienna Instruments' sample player runs standalone or as a plug-in. Its well-designed interface offers plenty of real-time control over the library's 24-bit, 44.1 kHz sample content.
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Setting the StageThe ten boxed collections, which you may purchase separately, are Solo Strings, Chamber Strings, Orchestral Strings I and II, Harps, Woodwinds I and II, Brass I and II, and Percussion. They vary in size, price, and number of installation DVDs. Each includes a CD-ROM for installing the Vienna Instruments software instrument, which runs standalone and as a plug-in for AU and VST hosts.To accommodate so much content, I bought a 500 GB Seagate hard drive and installed it in an external USB 2.0 enclosure.
Vienna Symphonic Library's Vienna MIR Pro 24 is an affordable, 24-instrument version of Vienna MIR Pro. This powerful mix engine lets you step out from behind your DAW's virtual mixing console and conduct your Ensemble Pro 5 virtual instrument system from the conductor's perspective.
My computer was a dual-processor 2.3 GHz Apple Power Mac G5 with Mac OS X 10.4.8, 4 GB of RAM, and a 16x DVD drive. Although I ran Vienna Instruments standalone and as a VST plug-in in Steinberg Cubase SX3 and as an AU plug-in in Apple Logic Pro 7.1, I spent most of my time working in MOTU Digital Performer 4.61.
The Vienna Symphony (Vienna Symphony Orchestra, German: Wiener Symphoniker) is an Austrian orchestra based in Vienna. Its primary concert venue is the Vienna Konzerthaus. In Vienna, the orchestra also performs at the Musikverein and at the Theater an der Wien.
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In 1900, Ferdinand Löwe founded the orchestra as the Wiener Concertverein (Vienna Concert Society). In 1913 it moved into the Konzerthaus, Vienna. In 1919 it merged with the Tonkünstler Orchestra. In 1933 it acquired its current name. Despite a lull in concert attendance after the introduction of radio during the 1920s, the orchestra survived until the invasion of Austria in 1938 and became incorporated into the German Culture Orchestras. As such, they were used for purposes of propaganda until, depleted by assignments to work in munitions factories, the orchestra closed down on September 1, 1944.
Their first post-war concert occurred on September 16, 1945, performing Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3. Under the direction of Josef Krips, they quickly rebuilt a modern repertoire after ten years of isolation, and travelled to the Bregenz Festival for the first time in the summer of 1946.
That year marked the beginning of the tenure of Herbert von Karajan who, though not principal conductor, worked with the orchestra in the 'Karajan Series' concerts, going on extensive tours throughout Europe and North America. In 1959. the orchestra performed for Pope John XXIII at Vatican City, leading up to the debut of Wolfgang Sawallisch.
Sawallisch's leadership saw a tour of the United States in 1964 as well as a combined U.S.-Japan tour in 1967. It also included the re-opening of the Theater an der Wien in 1962. Krips returned as artistic advisor in the interim between Sawallisch's departure and the arrival of Carlo Maria Giulini as principal conductor. In 1986, Georges Prêtre became principal guest conductor, and served until the arrival of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos as principal conductor in 1991. Vladimir Fedoseyev became chief conductor in 1997 and served in the post until 2005. Prêtre and Sawallisch each held the title of Ehrendirigent (honorary conductor) of the orchestra until their respective deaths. Fabio Luisi was principal conductor from 2005 to 2013.[1][2]
In October 2011, Philippe Jordan was named the VSO's next chief conductor, effective with the 2014–2015 season,[3] with an initial contract of 5 years[4] In December 2016, the orchestra announced the extension of Jordan's contract as chief conductor through the 2020–2021 season.[5] The orchestra has begun its first CD commercial cycle of recording of the Beethoven symphonies with Jordan.[6] Jordan is scheduled to stand down as chief conductor of the orchestra at the close of the 2020–2021 season.[7]
Andrés Orozco-Estrada first guest-conducted the VSO in 2006. In March 2018, the VSO announced the appointment of Orozco-Estrada as its next chief conductor, effective with the 2021–2022 season, with an initial contract of 5 years. He is scheduled to take the title of chief conductor designate in the 2020–2021 season.[7]
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Wiener Konzerthaus
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