Glassharmonica / Mozart Adagio K.356 by Thomas Bloch

Thomas Bloch: http://www.thomasbloch.net - The first part of the famous Mozart "Adagio" K.356 (617a) for Glassharmonica by French multi-intrumentalist Thomas Bloch (Glassharmonica, Ondes Martenot, Cristal Baschet, waterphone...) on a TV program ("La boîte à musique de Jean-François Zygel"). This piece is an "encore" for the famous "Adagio and Rondo K.617" for Glassharmonica and Quartet, the last chamber music work composed by Mozart in May 1791. August 4, 2006

Jean-François Zygel informations : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-françois_zygel

Other names : armonica de verre (France), Armonica de vidro, orgue de verre (France, Belgium), crystal harmonica, crystal armonica, glass organ, crystal organ, Armónica de cristal (Spain), Armonica a bicchieri (Italian), glasharmonika (Germany, Denmark, Sweden), glassharmonika (Norway), Harmonika szklana (Poland), 0¢0Î0‚0À0´ (Japan), close instruments : glass harp, glassharfe, glass harfe, harpe de verre, verrophon, verrophone, seraphim, verres musicaux, musical glasses

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[robertgift]

Always wanted to see one.

Thank you.

What turns the glasses?

[theondes]

A little electric motor and a pedal to control the speed (and so the dynamics).

[MargueriteGautier]

What an unbelievable beautiful sound!

Listen to Natalie Dessays CD where she sings the mad-scene from "Lucia". They use a glassharmonica there instead of the flute. It's very touching.

[theondes]

Actually, it is not a glassharmonica - the instrument Donizetti wanted to be played in the mad scene, you are right - which is used in Dessay's recording but a verrophon (that she also generally uses when she is on stage), a recent instrument. It looks like a kind of big pan flute and you rub the top of the glasses. The instrument, the period, the sound and the technique are different.

[beethomozart]

long live mozart

[darkeyce02]

kinda sounds like a carnival, the music the carousell plays, sounds like the instruments in the music sometimes

[probrojeffro]

Wow, glass harmonica. Mozart did it all, didn't he?

[LostInTheGroove]

@TeresaWii Well, that's a weird kind of question... I listened to it because I was curious to discover a new instrument, and because that is a great TV show, which made me expect something good. And I was disappointed, that's all. If your question is "why do you keep listening to this?" well, the video is only 30 seconds long, so the pain was endurable. :)

[TeresaWii]

@LostInTheGroove Why do u listen to this then?

[GaMa36Han]

интересный инструмент!

[LostInTheGroove]

this doesn't sound very good... quite noisy..

[mrmolinodelahoz]

I like this composition but there is much more of it which doesn´t appear here.

[FallenAngel2737]

The glass dosent stay wet. you dip your fingers in water its just like the glass harp, the instrument itself isn't wet your fingers are.

[yelloworangered]

How do the glasses stay wet so there is friction? Franklin's design had them revolving in a trough of water.