Fantasias for Theremin and String Quartet "Nukkuva Luohla" | Carolina Eyck

Apollo Chamber Players presents the U.S. premiere of "Fantasias for Theremin and String Quartet" by world renowned thereminist and composer CAROLINA EYCK. Recorded live as part of ‘Theremin Fantasies’ season concert program, February 16, 2019 at Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston (MATCH). “Fantasias” for Theremin and String Quartet (2015) Carolina Eyck (b. 1987) U.S. PREMIERE This video features the third movement ONLY: III. Nukkuva Luohla (Sleepy Dragon) Carolina Eyck, theremin Anabel Ramirez Detrick, violin I • Matthew J. Detrick, violin II Whitney Bullock, viola • Matthew Dudzik, cello Note by the composer: CAROLINA EYCK composed these Fantasias specially for the 12’’ vinyl LP format, a practice reminiscent of early-60s Nonsuch releases. The quartet parts are composed, and Eyck improvises on the theremin over these. The result is an organic virtuosity that leads the listener through a wide range of sonic environments across the piece. Eyck’s Fantasias range from slow-evolving arpeggiations reminiscent of Steve Reich and Philip Glass, to alternative bowing and fingering techniques that achieve an ethereal ambience, to athletic explorations reminiscent of Bartók’s String Quartets. The titles were devised by Eyck and Butterscotch Records producer/label-head Allen Farmelo by scanning multiple Scandinavian languages for pleasing lingual combinations. Conceptually, Eyck has located all of this music within her vivid childhood memories of the woods of northern Germany...