The Complete Album, via Digital Download

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 defies...
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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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