VSL Instruments Harps Standard

Collection of 2 orchestral harps

"The 21.3GB Harps contains two high-class instruments... Both sound gorgeous, and VSL´s super-clean Silent Stage recording environment brings out the detail of their sumptuous, intimate tone." - Sound on Sound

This Collection owes its two instruments to the use of two harps in orchestral music of the mid 19th century. Harp 1 is played by Ruth Rojahn, harpist of the Hofer Symphoniker and internationally successful soloist. Apart from single notes in various playing styles the first harp offers an enormous wealth of glissandos, which now in Vienna Instruments are particularly brilliant and easy to use. The controller structure allows for extremely flexible and quick access – the user can switch between ranges, different tempos, up and down movements, and different scales in real-time while playing. Now you can access all Dimensions at the same time! The first harp’s spectrum is rounded out by a wide range of arpeggios which were not available until now.

The second harp, played by Julia Reth, contains an even larger number of single notes, also offering playing styles like damped, fingernail playing, and pedal glissandos. A lovely ethereal effect is created by the bisbigliando variations, the whispering of tender tremolos on two strings playing the same note.

ARTICULATIONS

Sustained notes:
• Normal, secco, près-de-la-table, fingernail playing, secco, harmonics, bisbigliando, pedal glissandos

Glissandos:
• Major and harmonic minor full-scale
• Melodic minor, diminished, pentatonic
• Whole tone scale
• Slow, medium, fast
• One, three, and 5 octaves, single and multiple cross glissandos
• Fast fortissimo glissandos spanning 1 octave

Arpeggios:
• Major, minor, diminished, augmented
• Three and four notes
• Slow, medium, fast

Requires a Vienna Key or other Syncrosoft protection device.

Also available as part of the Vienna Super Package

Also available as part of the Strings Package