THEREMIN: L'invitation au voyage

This is one of my favorite songs from the works of French composer Henri Duparc, originally written to a poem by Charles Baudelaire. I have taken certain liberties with the arrangement in order to make up for the absence of the words which are extraordinarily powerful.

Duparc lived an unhappy, tormented life and did not write many compositions. Along with composer Camille Saint-Saens, he founded the National Society Of Modern Music in his native France.

I should mention that I probably would not have been able to play this on my Moog Etherwave Pro theremin if it's volume circuit linearity had not been greatly improved by the addition of the EPVM1345, a tiny module invented by French engineer Thierry Frenkel.

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[CharlieDraper]

Gorgeous. 'L'Invitation' has become of my favourite pieces to play on the theremin - thank you, Peter, for bringing it into the repertoire. Duparc's life is indeed tragic. He wrote a great deal, but having being struck by a bout of severe depression in 1885 he burnt most of his works, and composed almost nothing thereafter.

[goldenthroat86]

as a classical singer, I was ready to giggle when I saw this. But I must say...You really are very musical and captured the spirit of Duparc and his L'Invitation au voyage beautifully!

[adonis1940]

Another wonderful perfomance by the extremely competent Peter Pringle. I enjoy listen to his theremin play. He plays such accurate tones.

[1viva]

It's beautiful & so well played!!

Felicitations!

Mario

[zerfsun]

wow, didn't know a theremin could sound so awesome

[MagicDrum]

Fabulous perfornance. Thanks.

[yeapsystar]

Wow this sounds really good! Free going and full with emotions ;-)

[hypergolic]

Wow Peter. I feel like a kid stirring peanut butter with a boat paddle after watching this.

[ThomasGrillo]

Thank you. Love the new pole speaker too.

[les2decoppet]

I really like! What mastery of space! I love that kind of sounds ... Friendships