Christian Eisenberger, Katharina Traunfellner, Rubén Dubrovski, Martin Deuring. These four soloists have invested their life’s blood and hard-won experience (from many years of international concert work) into the Vienna Instruments. Sensitive and clear, exact and homogeneous, their performances are technically perfect and utterly convincing in their musicality. Not only are these fine musicians in command of their instruments but, after several years of working for the Vienna Symphonic Library, they also know exactly what is required of them to create ideal samples. Their performances at the Silent Stage come alive again in this Vienna Instrument.

Solo Strings I is the most comprehensive and sophisticated solo string edition ever created. This Collection contains articulations such as “Zigane”, the leisurely “smeared” portamentos, which are particularly impressive as Interval Performances with the Vienna Instruments audio engine’s algorithms. Additional “harsh” articulations are played with an especially raw, almost brutal attack, and are now available as superbly effective Interval and Repetition Performances. There are also special Performance Trills, repetitions in spiccato and ricochet articulations, sustains with fading vibrato, ponticello, sul tasto, and numerous natural and artificial harmonics.

Your purchase also entitles you to download the free Vienna Instruments player software that includes the Vienna Ensemble mixing and host software.

ARTICULATIONS – Full Library
Performances:

Interval Performances: legato, portamento, zigane (gipsy), détaché, marcato, spiccato
Fast Interval Performances: legato, marcato, spiccato, harsh
Performance Trills
Interval Performance Glissandos on the same string, fast and medium speed, up and down
Repetition Performances: legato, bow vibrato, portato (slow, medium, fast), staccato, spiccato, harsh
Fast Repetitions and ricochet repetitions (accelerando, ritardando)
Runs: legato, spiccato; major, minor, chromatic, whole tone
Grace notes: normal, slow, zigane
Glissandos: medium and fast octave glissandos on the same string
Single notes:

Short notes: staccato, short détaché, long détaché, 4 variations each
Long notes: sustains without, with medium, with progressive, with fading vibrato, espressivo; marcato
Dynamics: various crescendos & diminuendos, with and without vibrato, fp, sfz, sffz, pfp
Tremolos: sustains, crescendo & diminuendo
Trills: half tone, whole tone, crescendo & diminuendo, constant speed and accelerando
Pizzicatos: normal, secco, Bartók pizzicatos
Col legno
Sul ponticello: staccato, détaché, sustains, crescendos & diminuendos, sfz, sffz, tremolo, repetitions
Sul tasto: staccato, détaché, sustains, sforzato, tremolo
Natural harmonics: sustains, repetitions, glissandos
Artificial harmonics: staccato, sustains, repetitions, glissandos