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musician performer of rare instruments "Thomas Bloch is unquestionnably a virtuoso and a musician" The New York Times GLASS HARMONICA ONDES MARTENOT CRISTAL BASCHET NEW ! WATERPHONE - THEREMIN CELLO |
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A
large choice of videos by Thomas Bloch playing the glass harmonica, the
ondes Martenot and the cristal Baschet on Youtube.
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Thomas Bloch is the musical drector for this Festival dedicated to rare music and instruments.
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MUSICIANS |
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French
pianist and composer who frequently plays with Thomas Bloch in concert
and on CDs. This is a link to teh place where he lives.
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French
male soprano (one of the 15 castrato-like voice in the world) who
frequently plays with Thomas Bloch in concert and on CDs
since 1989. Their duet is called "crystal voice and glass instruments".
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Belgian
flutist who frequently play with Thomas
Bloch on the glass harmonica in concert.
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French-belgian
viola player, also specialist of rare barytone-violin who frequently
plays with Thomas Bloch on the glassharmonica in concert and on
CDs.
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French
pianist who frequently plays with Thomas
Bloch in concert and on CDs.
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French-american
pianist who frequently plays with Thomas
Bloch in concert.
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English umlti
instrumentalist (didjeridu, musical saw, ukulele...) who
frequently plays with Thomas Bloch in
concert and on CDs.
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French
pianist, celestist, improviser, teacher, radio and television
producer who frequently plays with Thomas
Bloch in concert and on CDs.
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The best french harpist from the new generation who frequently plays with Thomas Bloch in concert.
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French
electronic music composer and subaquatic concerts inventor who
frequently plays with Thomas Bloch in
concert and on CDs.
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Norvegian
composer whose works are frequently premiered and played
by Thomas Bloch on onde Martenot and glassarmonica in concert.
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Italian
composer whose works are frequently played
by Thomas Bloch in concert
(musical theatre).
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French
composer, executive producer and arranger for songs who
frequently invites Thomas Bloch for
recording sessions.
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The
musical score editing firm Questions de tempéraments which
is
the publisher of Thomas Bloch's "Formule" for ondes Martenot and the
recording label
Erol Records.
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The
franco american composer Etienne
Rolin with who Thomas Bloch plays frequently in concerts and on CDs.
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The human beat box funky hip hop band co-produced by Thomas Bloch.
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All
the male sopranos, including those who frequently play with Thomas
Bloch in concert and on CDs : Patrick Husson (dit le jardinier),
Jörg Waschinski, Fabrice di Falco.
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The
male soprano solo who sings Thomas Bloch's Missa Cantate for
voice and symphony orchestra.
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Jean Boucault and Johnny Rasse, probably the best birds singers in the world. Astonishing and poetic.
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An excellent glassharp player who lives in Italy.
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MUSICAL
INSTRUMENTS Master
glassblower Gerhard
Finkenbeiner website, who rediscovered the glass harmonica in 1982
(maker, shop). Thomas Bloch plays his instruments especially made for
him.
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Thomas Bloch
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A well-documented article dedicated to the glass armonica for those who read German.
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Bernard
and François Baschet official website and their instruments.
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Frederic
Bousquet's website, the cristal Baschet maker.
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The
international organisation whose members are glassmusic lovers, glass
instruments players (glassharmonica, glassharp, seraphim, musicla
glasses, cristal Baschet, crystal violin, glass percussions...).
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Some
major glassharmonica players.
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An
excellent polish musical glasses duet (seraphim).
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All
electric instruments from 1700 to 1990.
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Alexis
Faucomprez website,
the best "lame sonore" (singing blade - musical saw without
teeth)
maker. Thomas Bloch plays one of his instruments especially made for
him.
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A swiss made website (in French) dedicated to all Theremin instruments with many pictures, audio...
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A
strange and nice instrument invented by Richard Water in 1969. Thomas
Bloch plays one of his "megabass" instruments especially made for him.
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RECORDING, LABELS |
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The
international label in which Thomas Bloch has published his recent
personal CDs (music for
ondes Martenot, music
for glassharmonica, Olivier Messiaen's Turangalîla-Symphonie,
Edgard Varese's Ecuatorial,
Thomas Bloch's Missa
Cantate...).
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French
sound engineer Philippe Avril and his recording studio where several
CDs by thomas Bloch were made : music
for glassharmonica, Missa
Cantate (mixage), Floid...
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VARIOUS |
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To
visit the wonderfull Foundation located on the French riviera where
Thomas Bloch was a composer and a player in residence.
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The
Paris Cité de la Musique and the Musical Museum where
Thomas Bloch frequently plays since its opening in 1997.
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(Glassharmonica) - Mozart
appréciait la percussion du verre. And many
other musical spoonerisms (in french...)
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Awesome.
But take care to your ears !
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Links
to numerous french artists, studios, companies, ensembles...
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For
those who are passionate by or drive an english Lotus car.
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For
french people who are passionate by or drive and english Lotus car.
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7
days meteorological previsions for your Lotus trips (and for
others too).
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Some
inspiration, but moderately... and never before a Lotus trip.
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Claude-Samuel
Levine, webmaster of this website with Thomas Bloch, also a composer
and an ondist.
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