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Spellbound: Theremin
Enhanced CDLydia Kavina's follow up to her sucessful CD 'Music From The Ether: Original Works For Theremin', this CD is again, a selection of works originally written for theremin, and incorporates the soundtrack to the feature film Ed Wood.
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 Original Works for Theremin (Download)
The Complete Album, via Digital DownloadLydia Kavina is undoubtedly the best thereminist playing today; she's the inventor's last protégée
(as well as being the granddaughter of his cousin) and her range on the instrument is unparalleled.
Here, she tackles the body of work made specifically for the instrument
from the likes of Joseph Schillinger, Bohuslav Martinu, Percy Grainger,
Isidor Achron, and a handful of contemporary composers. Percy
Grainger's "Free Music No. 1" for four theremins eerily defies...
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Free Music #1 For Four Theremins
Percy Grainger heard his 'Free Music' in his head from his childhood, and spent most of his life trying to recreate it using a number of devices and instruments. Free Music No.1 is Grainger's first attempt at creating the unique sound of his Free Music using a quartet of theremins. Unfortunately, Grainger found that the thereminists of the time were insufficiently accomplished performers to recreate authentically the sounds he heard in his head. It was only upon the release of...
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Improvisation
Isidor Achron's Improvisation for Theremin and piano, played by Lydia Kavina, with Joshua Pierce on Piano
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Dance In The Moon
Dance in the Moon is an enchanting, spellbinding piece for theremin and piano by the little known composer Friedrich Wilckens.
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Melody
Joseph Schillinger's Melody for theremin and piano, performed by Lydia Kavina
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Theremin - An Electronic Odyssey
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Theremin was the secret link between sci-fi films, the Beach Boys, and Carnegie Hall. His self-named electronic musical
instrument--the first of its kind--took the world by storm in the 1920s and '30s. Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey, winner of
Sundance's Filmmakers Trophy, explores the inventor's strange life and times, including his mysterious 50-year
disappearance beginning in the 1940s. Interviews with theremin virtuoso Clara Rockmore, synthesizer pioneer Robert Moog,...
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Music from the Ether: Original Works for Theremin
Lydia Kavina is undoubtedly the best thereminist playing today; she's the inventor's last protégée
(as well as being the granddaughter of his cousin) and her range on the instrument is unparalleled. Here, she tackles the
body of work made specifically for the instrument from the likes of Joseph Schillinger, Bohuslav
Martinu, Percy Grainger, Isidor Achron, and a handful of contemporary composers. Percy Grainger's "Free Music No. 1" for four theremins eerily...
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