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Author Andriessen, Louis, 1939-2021.

Title Writing to Vermeer / Louis Andriessen ; libretto by Peter Greenaway ; [electronic music, Michel van der Aa].

Publication Info. New York, NY : Nonesuch, [2006]
℗2006

Call No.CD 484
LocationMoore Audio CD
Holdings2 CDs and a booklet in box.

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Description 2 audio discs (102 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time 014200
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in.
Description digital
optical
1.4 m/s
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.
Compact discs.
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.
Operas.
Subject Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675 -- Drama.
Vermeer, Johannes, 1632-1675.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Painters -- Netherlands -- Drama.
Painters.
Netherlands.
Genre/Form Sound recordings.
Sound recordings.
Drama.
Added Author Greenaway, Peter, librettist.
Aa, Michel van der, 1970-
Narucki, Susan, performer.
Bickley, Susan, performer.
Hannigan, Barbara, performer.
Leeuw, Reinbert de, 1938-2020, conductor.
Kickers (Musical group), performer.
Schönberg-Ensemble, performer.
Asko Ensemble, performer.
Music No. 79887-2 Nonesuch