TOUCH! DON'T TOUCH - Music for Theremin

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Label
Wergo
Release Date
August 14, 2006
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      NIKOLAEV KLEIN HIRSCH DE VR
    • PERFORMER
      Buchholz, Kavina, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 14, 2006
    • UPC
      4010228667929
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      WER66792
    • LABEL
      Wergo
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Canto Ostinato

      Composer: Olga Bochihina

      Ensemble: KNM Streichquartett

      Performer: Barbara Buchholz, Lydia Kavina

    2. Vakuum-Halluzinationen

      Composer: Caspar Johannes Walter

      Ensemble: KNM Streichquartett

      Performer: Barbara Buchholz, Lydia Kavina

    3. Thereminskie ostrova (Theremin-Inseln, Theremin Islands)

      Composer: Nicolaus Richter de Vroe

      Ensemble: KNM Streichquartett

      Performer: Barbara Buchholz, Lydia Kavina

    4. Rezitativ und Arie

      Composer: Michael Hirsch

      Ensemble: KNM Streichquartett

      Performer: Barbara Buchholz, Lydia Kavina

    5. Se vuoi

      Composer: Juliane Klein

      Ensemble: KNM Streichquartett

      Performer: Barbara Buchholz, Lydia Kavina

    6. Cherno-belaja muzyka (Schwarz-weisse Musik, Black-White Music)

      Composer: Vladimir Nikolaev

      Ensemble: KNM Streichquartett

      Performer: Barbara Buchholz, Lydia Kavina

    7. The Son of the Daughter of Dracula versus the Incredible Frankenstein Monster (from Outer Space)

      Composer: Moritz Eggert

      Ensemble: KNM Streichquartett

      Performer: Barbara Buchholz, Lydia Kavina

    8. Kitezh-19

      Composer: Iraida Yusupova

      Ensemble: KNM Streichquartett

      Performer: Lydia Kavina


The theremin is the only instrument that can produce sounds without being touched. The hands of the performer dance in the air. Invented in the 1920s, the theremin did not really achieve a breakthrough in the following decades. On "Touch! Don't Touch!" Lydia Kavina and Barbara Buchholz pick up the thread of theremin history with new compositions. Eight German and Russian composers were commissioned to write pieces for two theremins and instrumental ensemble. They followed the maxim that there should be no limits to the sound; everything should be possible. The result is this marvellous CD.