Spitfire Audio introduces Abbey Road 2: Iconic Strings (Music software review)
New Spitfire Audio offers Abbey Road 2: Iconic Strings, sampling the iconic sound of string soloists in London's Abbey Road Studios.
New Spitfire Audio offers Abbey Road 2: Iconic Strings, sampling the iconic sound of string soloists in London's Abbey Road Studios.
TALLINN, the capturing of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir as a virtual instrument by Orchestral Tools, is a triumph.
Spitfire Audio distilled the essence of the BBC Symphony Orchestra into a software library capable of serving as the centerpiece of a modern scoring studio.
Later is better than never when it comes to test-driving a fantastic product like the Spitfire Studio Woodwinds virtual instrument.
The new Eastwest Spaces II, the successor to the original Spaces package, promises a significant update to the company's highly vaunted original product.
Spitfire Audio’s “Hans Zimmer Strings” hit the market last summer. It provides composers with a gorgeous-sounding, truly revolutionary string composition tool.
The higher the level of the Native Instruments Komplete package you purchase, the closer you can get to a full suite of tools.
Embertone’s Joshua Bell Violin virtual instrument features the great soloist performing on his 1713 “Huberman” Stradivarius. Grammy Award-winning sound artist Richard King recorded the sessions.
Eastwest’s Voices of the Empire (VoE) is available both as stand-alone software and as part of Eastwest’s cloud subscription service. While we are generally not fans of cloud based services in this column, Eastwest is an exception. Their subscription package is absolutely the best deal on the market.
Good news. This new Dorico 2 release is what fans of this software – and those musicians and composers on the cusp of making the switch – may have been hoping for all along.
The available sonic resources in Hollywood Choirs allow users to craft soundscapes running the gamut from a close-mic’d dry sound to the most ethereal European sacred music cathedral atmospheres, aided by new Impulse Reverbs on board. For inspiration alone, these sounds are worth having at your disposal.
Dominus Choir brings the composer an instrument that seems to channel the mystical nature of great modern sacred choral recordings.
Resembling something of a cross between a modern cello and a fretted lute, the Viola da Gamba is a 6 stringed, fretted instrument played with a bow.
In his freshman release, "Blood, Forgotten," Mark Nowakowski, a classical Polish-American composer offers tribute to a strong people's spirit of survival.
CHICAGO, Oct. 8, 2015 − Conductor Andrew Lewis seems to have a certain knack for molding the sparse yet arresting musical landscapes in the music of Arvo Pärt. Coaxing forth the mystical undertones underpinning the famed Estonian’s sonic contemplations, Lewis’s Bella Voce choir showed itself to be well prepared to perform a music that is often ...
CHICAGO, Aug. 30, 2015 – We recently received for review a package of Soprano and Bass “Voice of Rapture” products, part of Soundiron’s “Solo Voices” line. Both packages are separate, monophonic instruments that make a great contribution to vocal sample literature. The Soprano instrument features singer Nichole Dechaine, who, according to Soundiron, was chosen “specifically ...
CHICAGO, June 28, 2015 – Today, we review an intriguing new Deutsche Grammophon recording that exemplifies our developing 21st century classical music era. It’s offered by violinist Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica, a chamber ensemble of young Baltic musicians hailing from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania that he founded in 1997. Where new music is concerned ...
CHICAGO, April 23, 2015 – It is difficult to believe that there was a time not so long ago when good performances – let alone quality recordings – were very difficult to come by when it came to the music of Arvo Pärt, now the world’s most performed living composer. Yet in the tumultuous time ...
CHICAGO, March 13, 2015 – There are those rare performances where location, atmosphere, and ensemble commitment to luminous works of music seem to create a transcendent experience that lodges itself in the memory, leaving a palpable mark that long outlives the dying of its final notes. Sunday night’s “Stabat Mater” performance by Chicago’s own Bella ...
CHICAGO, March 6, 2015 – Recent years have witnessed a renewed interest in the music of Soviet-era composer Mieczysław Weinberg (1919-1996). Recordings have begun appearing on major labels, along with the Chicago Lyric Opera’s currently running revival of his powerful opera “The Passenger.” Now, ECM New Series has added its significant voice to the growing ...