Clara Rockmore:Theremin Japn audiophile electronic Moog

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Shirleigh and Robert Moog present Clara Rockmore: Theremin



label & cat. no.:
Delos Quality Audiophile Series D/QA 25437 pressed in:
Japan date:
1981 format:
LP Vinyl: nm
Cover: ex (light general wear) Scarce 1977 recording, probably the greatest example of the Theremin being taken seriously as a solo instrument; this is actually a rarely seen audiophile Japanese issue from 1981 on a special sub-label of Delos, definitely superior in quality to the US issue! It features Rockmore, the Theremin's original virtuoso and darling of inventor Leon Theremin, performing arrangements for Theremin and piano of works by Rachmaninoff, Saint-Saens, De Falla, Wieniawski, Stravinsky, Ravel, Tschaikowsky, and Glazunov alongside pianist Nadia Reisenberg. This is an essential Theremin artifact with extensive essays by Robert Moog inside the gatefold on the device's history, inner workings, and inventor. Rockmore was a Russian violinist who became the world's foremost Thereminist and collaborated with Leon Theremin to refine the unique motion-controlled early electronic instrument he invented in 1919.

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