I can't say that the sound of the "Theremin" charms me, it has something ominous like that of a strange alien creature that wants to invade your house in the middle of the night... Of course this in itself is a very special and rare recording, and I sincerely thank you for sharing it, dear Jurek!
Co za muzyczna ciekawostka! Wcale nie dziwię się, że słuchacze mogli mieć problem z odgadnięciem nazwy tego instrumentu - początkowo brzmi jak fagot, a później przyjmuje barwę trudną do określenia. Dziękuję za publikację nagrania tego artysty :)
Od lat mam tę płytę (jak i jej bliźniaczkę) i faktycznie zainteresowała mnie teraz, bardziej ze względu na okoliczności ówczesne i całą sensację z tym związaną. Dziękuję !
A very special and beautiful version of this popular song!! 🎶👍 Thank you for presenting it here, dear Jerzy and for the interesting background information about the Polish Columbia record company!! 🤗
it is something rare and special indeed; the record and the whole undertaking. If you did not see it before, let me invite you to this musician-technician performance, recorded on film 8 years later: www.britishpathe.com/asset/68074/ .
@@jurek46pink That's a wonderful little British Pathé Film that really gives a good impression - thank you very much for the link to it, dear Jerzy!!! 🤩👌🤗
I 've had this record for years, never liked it especially and only not long ago I got knew all the story of its origin and it made me reach for it, as for a sort of sensation.
This is an absolute rarity indeed! The theremin must have been very poorly known back then (just as it is today, really). It is an instrument quite similar in sound to the ondes Martenot, the latter capable of producing a wider range of tonalities. Ondes Martenot enjoyed a certain degree of popularity in France, where a.o. Olivier Messiaen used it in his Turangalîla Symphony. I have to say the theremin in the present recording is relatively more convincing in the high pitched range than in the lower one (it seems that, sporadically, the instrument sounded somehow detuned). Thank you so much for presenting this fascinating rendition!
Thank you very much for broadening this subject with Martenot's undertakings in this kind of sound, impressive. If you do not know an 8 years later performance of Taubman, which seems to be much more sophisticated and rightly tuned, here it is: www.britishpathe.com/asset/68074/ .
@@jurek46pink And thank you so much to you for the stunning British Pathé film fragment, showing Martin Taubman in action. "Plucking" music from the air, as it seems at first sight, is so interesting to watch, and I agree that the latter performance is notably more sophisticated :-)
I can't say that the sound of the "Theremin" charms me, it has something ominous like that of a strange alien creature that wants to invade your house in the middle of the night...
Of course this in itself is a very special and rare recording, and I sincerely thank you for sharing it, dear Jurek!
I still have one record of that cycle, as Columbia made 4 sides for that special quiz contest. As an event, very special and interesting.
Co za muzyczna ciekawostka! Wcale nie dziwię się, że słuchacze mogli mieć problem z odgadnięciem nazwy tego instrumentu - początkowo brzmi jak fagot, a później przyjmuje barwę trudną do określenia. Dziękuję za publikację nagrania tego artysty :)
Od lat mam tę płytę (jak i jej bliźniaczkę) i faktycznie zainteresowała mnie teraz, bardziej ze względu na okoliczności ówczesne i całą sensację z tym związaną. Dziękuję !
A very special and beautiful version of this popular song!! 🎶👍 Thank you for presenting it here, dear Jerzy and for the interesting background information about the Polish Columbia record company!! 🤗
it is something rare and special indeed; the record and the whole undertaking. If you did not see it before, let me invite you to this musician-technician performance, recorded on film 8 years later: www.britishpathe.com/asset/68074/ .
@@jurek46pink That's a wonderful little British Pathé Film that really gives a good impression - thank you very much for the link to it, dear Jerzy!!! 🤩👌🤗
Witam dziekuje pozdrawiam ❤❤❤❤
I would never win such a contest. To me in places it sounded like a violin.
Thank you for sharing this very interesting post.
I 've had this record for years, never liked it especially and only not long ago I got knew all the story of its origin and it made me reach for it, as for a sort of sensation.
This is an absolute rarity indeed! The theremin must have been very poorly known back then (just as it is today, really). It is an instrument quite similar in sound to the ondes Martenot, the latter capable of producing a wider range of tonalities. Ondes Martenot enjoyed a certain degree of popularity in France, where a.o. Olivier Messiaen used it in his Turangalîla Symphony. I have to say the theremin in the present recording is relatively more convincing in the high pitched range than in the lower one (it seems that, sporadically, the instrument sounded somehow detuned). Thank you so much for presenting this fascinating rendition!
Thank you very much for broadening this subject with Martenot's undertakings in this kind of sound, impressive. If you do not know an 8 years later performance of Taubman, which seems to be much more sophisticated and rightly tuned, here it is: www.britishpathe.com/asset/68074/ .
@@jurek46pink And thank you so much to you for the stunning British Pathé film fragment, showing Martin Taubman in action. "Plucking" music from the air, as it seems at first sight, is so interesting to watch, and I agree that the latter performance is notably more sophisticated :-)
O kochanej, tylko o kochanej gra muzyka...❤
Very nice!!!
Czy wiadomo dokładnie, jakie nagrody otrzymali zwycięzcy konkursu?
Firma wydała szczegółową broszurę wówczas na temat konkursu; treść osiągalna - gdzieś w internecie.