The Orchestra
The Orchestra is an extraordinary new app from Touch Press that will delight anyone with even a passing interest in classical music. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the world-renowned Philharmonia performing extended extracts from eight works representing three centuries of symphonic music. The app allows real-time selection of multiple video and audio tracks, along with an automatically synchronised score and dynamic graphical note-by-note visualisation of each piece as it is played. The result is an immersive environment for exploring the music and all the instruments of the orchestra.
Check it out on the App Store today: https://itunes.apple.com/app/the-orchestra/id560078788?ls=1&mt=8
Find out more information on our website: http://www.touchpress.com/orchestra
Over the years I've shared a remarkable guide to the orchestra, talked about the roller coaster ups and downs of selling an orchestra, showed instruments from the inside and looked at conductors analyzed through motion capture.
Now I find myself in awe once again through The Orchestra, a fantastic app by Touch Press, makers of educational apps including The Elements, Shakespeare's Sonnets and Leonardo Da Vinci: Anatomy.
A glance at the app and it becomes obvious that is was created with great care. In a blog post Touch Press' Creative Director goes behind the scenes and the passion becomes evident:
The first beautiful thing about The Orchestra is the music. For that we thank Haydn, Beethoven, Debussy, Mahler, Stravinsky, and a certain Mr. Berlioz. (Music by these great composers and others was performed for this app by the Philharmonia orchestra, one of the world’s great musical institutions, and also one of its most innovative under the direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen, a big name in such circles.)
A more detailed look at the features and contents of The Orchestra for iPad.