This is from the 2017 Bridge Records release of Dvořák, Ravel, Gershwin & Others: Chamber Works, the “lost Clara Rockmore theremin album.”
Rockmore, of course, was … Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: “La Vie En Rose,” Clara Rockmore and Nadia Reisenberg”
This is a piece written (by a pupil of Claude Debussy’s) for woodwind, percussion, bass vocal and two theremin cellos – an instrument similar to a theremin, and invented by … Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: “Ecuatorial” by Edgar Varese”
An excerpt of a concert for theremin and organ, played at Moscow’s Bogolubov Library on September 19, 2021, with Lydia Kavina on the Thereminvox and Maria Makarova on the organ.
Even if you don’t have a theremin at home, watching the lesson is strangely fascinating. Bodies affecting the invisible fields.
Originally written for piano, but more haunting in this arrangement. Supported by a grant from the Polish Ministry of Culture.
She’s probably the highest-profile thereminist on the internet, and she’s not above sharing a little wisdom.
She also gives lessons over yonder: https://carolinaeyck.com/lessons… Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: “How to play a scale on the theremin” – Carolina Eyck”
Remembrance · Carolina Eyck
She also does a mean Kate Bush cover….
The very old Anglo-Saxon poetry, the pretty darn old hurdy-gurdy, and the pretty new theremin. Goes together oddly well, unearthly aesthetic to unearthly aesthetic.
From the YouTube … Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: “Beowulf (excerpt) on Hurdy-Gurdy and Theremin” by Peter Pringle”
I don’t think Lula Mae is ever coming home. (And if you don’t get the reference, go now and watch the movie!)
They just don’t cowboy like they used to.
Pringle’s dedication is absolutely admirable.
From his description:
… Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: Handel’s “As When the Dove,” by Peter Pringle”There is a lot of very fast fingering and some extended baroque trills in this piece which are hard to see because
We’ve had Eyck on here before, but not like this:
This cover came out in March this year, celebrating the anniversary of New Order’s 1983 hit. The idea was to remake the groundbreaking electronic song only using instruments –… Read the rest “Thanksgiving Theremin: “Blue Monday” by Orkestra Obsolete (New Order cover)”
In which the virtuoso discusses the techniques, range and aesthetics of the instrument.
And, you know, plays a little.
Straight into the hearts of space with this one.
Hope your Thanksgiving weekend (if you’re celebrating) is, like, totally cosmic.
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