Description |
2 audio discs (102 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
Playing Time |
014200 |
Physical Medium |
4 3/4 in. |
Description |
digital |
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optical |
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1.4 m/s |
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digital recording |
Note |
Opera in 6 scenes. |
Performer |
Susan Narucki (Catharina Bolnes); Susan Bickley (Maria Thins); Barbara Hannigan (Saskia de Vries); De Kickers, children's choir from Muziekschool Waterland; Schönberg Ensemble; Asko Ensemble; Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor. |
Event |
Recorded June 29-30, 2004, Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands. |
Note |
Ed. recorded: Boosey & Hawkes. |
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Compact discs. |
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Program notes by Maja Trochimczyk and the composer, synopsis by Peter Greenaway, and libretto (52 p. : ill.) in container. |
Summary |
"Women and the letters they write are the subject of ... Writing to Vermeer. Vermeer has left his household of women and children in Delft to spend fourteen days in The Hague. They write to him, six letters from his wife, Catharina Bolnes, six letters from his mother-in-law, Maria Thins, and six letters from his model, Saskia de Vries. They write of domestic arrangements, the activities of Vermeer's children, marriage plans, domestic accidents, but most of all they write to Vermeer to tell him to hurry back home. They miss him, they miss his company, they miss his presence and affection. Whilst Vermeer is absent, the women defend their household against the potential erosion of five liquids: ink, from an excess of writing; varnish, which threatens the life of a child: milk, which endlessly pours from the milkmaid's jug; blood, which demonstrates the violence of political assassination: and, finally, water, which ultimately sweeps them, their household, their children, and the stage away."--Notes, p. [19]. |
Language |
Sung in English. |
Genre/Form |
Operas.
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Operas.
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Subject |
Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675 -- Drama.
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Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675. |
Genre/Form |
Drama.
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Subject |
Painters -- Netherlands -- Drama.
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Painters. |
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Netherlands. |
Genre/Form |
Sound recordings.
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Sound recordings.
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Drama.
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Added Author |
Greenaway, Peter, librettist.
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Aa, Michel van der, 1970-
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Narucki, Susan, performer.
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Bickley, Susan, performer.
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Hannigan, Barbara, performer.
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Leeuw, Reinbert de, 1938-2020, conductor.
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Kickers (Musical group), performer.
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Schönberg-Ensemble, performer.
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Asko Ensemble, performer.
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Music No. |
79887-2 Nonesuch |
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