Vienna Symphonic Library Recorders Standard Library

Soprano recorder
Alto recorder
Tenor recorder
Fantastic bass recorder

Compared with its close relative the flute (“flauto traverso”), the instrument array of the wooden recorder (“flauto dolce”) is more limited when it comes to pitch and dynamics. This can be one particular of the causes why the recorder was replaced from the (traverse) flute in orchestras around the 18th century. Nevertheless, recorders had been quite well-known in the course of medieval instances and in to the renaissance, and in some cases within the baroque era popular composers like Telemann, Bach, Händel and Vivaldi wrote pieces for these instruments.

As a result of the absence of upper harmonics and a predominance of odd harmonics, the sound of recorders is soft and mellow. The instrument is often unfairly marginalized as a toy for youngsters or amateur players, with its main application being music pedagogy and domestic music. However, modern composers of all genres (from Luciano Berio and Mauricio Kagel to Keith Jarrett) have written demanding pieces for the recorder, expanding its timbral range in a virtuosic way. What’s a lot more, recorders are utilised as solo instruments in contemporary film music, adding a specific exotic timbre with references to ancient or far eastern worlds in orchestral scores. All 4 recorders of this Instrument Collection were played by Austrian flute and recorder virtuoso Leopold Eibl, a sought-after soloist and chamber musician.