Dear forum-members,
I hope you allow for some shameless self-promotion :-)
The Vienna Symphonic Library is blessed with success, but to have two productions relying heavily on our products on top-positions in the charts at the same time is unusual nontheless.
This week, the Austrian CD-charts are lead by "Falco Symphonic (Studio)", the DVD-charts topped by "Falco Symphonic (Live)".
-> http://www.austriancharts.at/archiv.asp?todo=show&tag=15&monat=02&jahr=2008&sparte=d
-> http://www.austriancharts.at/archiv.asp?todo=show&tag=15&monat=02&jahr=2008&sparte=a
Both productions are a unique combination of meticulously restaurated original audio-files from 10, 20 or even 25 years ago, with newly recorded band & orchestra. The DVD contains also unique video-material from private archives.
The orchestra was layouted with Vienna Instruments, recorded "live" in sections, and backed up by Vienna Instruments later-on. Especially the strings, horns and orchestral perucussions are VSL-instense :-). Programming was done by Gerrit Wunder, one of Vienna's up-and-coming arrangers. Executive producer was the former Falco-keyboarder Thomas Rabitsch. Restauration work be Doro Badent, additional restauration work by Chryselda Pedarnig (of VSL-fame - she's one of our denoising specialists!)
-> http://www.sonybmg.at/artists2.php?iA=7&artist=21946&product=88697253279
BTW ... both productions were technically supervised, edited, recorded and mixed by Yours Truly ... [<:o)]
I answered questions about some VSL-unrelated background information and technical stuff in the Nuendo-forum:
-> http://forum.nuendo.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=16978
... but the saying is "All good things come in threes", that's why there is the #4 in this week's DVD-charts, which was mixed by me some time ago: "Falco Live - Donauinsel" made its re-entrance into the charts, after being at #1 for 25 weeks already in 2004 and 2005.
:-))
It's a good week, isn't it?
/Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library