1. Liebesleid (Fritz Kreisler)
2. Air (Johann Mattheson)
3. Humoreske (Antonin Dvorák)
4. Pastorale (Anis Fuleihan)
5. Ave Maria (Franz Schubert)
6. Nocturne In C-Sharp Minor (Frédéric Chopin)
7. Requiebros (Gaspar Cassadó)
8. Adagio (Johann Sebastian Bach)
9. Aria From Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 (Heitor Villa-Lobos)
10. Celebrated Air (Johann Sebastian Bach)
11. Midnight Bells (Richard Heuberger)
12. Kaddish (Maurice Ravel)
13. Summertime (George Gershwin)
14. Water Boy (Avery Robinson)
15. Estrellita (Manuel Ponce)
16. La Vie En Rose (Louis Louiguy)
Total time: 1:00:55
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Clara Rockmore's Lost Theremin Album
Clara Rockmore
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Alternately sounding like synthesized violin, a musical saw, a female soprano or the kazoo, the theremin is therapeutic. It seizes the central nervous system with its weirdness, causing every synapse and neuron to fire wildly like a superconductor. In the hands of theremin queen Rockmore, the instrument literally can put a listener into a trance.
In 1975, the classically trained Rockmore’s first and until now only album, “Shirleigh and Robert Moog Present Clara Rockmore,” was recorded. On it, the Russian native performed with her sister Nadia Reisenberg on piano.
Sixteen outtakes from those sessions were located in Moog’s basement after his death in August 2005, and now the world has a second and arguably even better Rockmore album. Three of the outtakes had been released in 1989 on a Reisenberg anthology, so now they’ve been enhanced: two with strings (Fuleihan’s “Pastorale” and Villa-Lobos’ “Bachianas” aria) and one with guitar (Ponce’s “Estrellita”).
“Pastorale,” incidentally, is the second movement from the rarely heard “Concerto for Theremin and Orchestra,” a piece commissioned by conductor Leopold Stokowski especially for Rockmore, which she premiered with the New York Symphony in 1945.
external links
Remix magazine artist profile
label’s site
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