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Vermeer and Music

Lucie Skeaping takes a tour of the National Gallery's new exhibition of paintings by Vermeer and his Dutch 17th-century contemporaries and chooses music to go with it.

The National Gallery's exhibition of paintings by Vermeer and his Dutch 17th-century contemporaries - every one of which depicts musicmaking of one kind or another - opened earlier this week. Lucie Skeaping takes a tour of the exhibition with curator Marjorie E. Wieseman, and chooses music to go with it, including works by Sweelinck, Van Eyck and Johann Schop.

58 minutes

Last on

Sun 30 Jun 2013 13:00

Music Played

  • Francesco Corbetta

    Sarabande La Victoire (excerpt)

    Performer: William Carter (guitar)

    • Painting – Jan Vermeer: The Guitar Player.
    • Linn CKD 185.
  • Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

    Mein junges Leben hat ein Endt

    Performer: Siegbert Rampe (clavichord)

    • Painting - Gerrit Dou: A Woman playing a Clavichord.
    • Dabringhaus und Grimm MDG 341 12.
  • Nicolaus a Kempis

    Sinfonia in D major

    Performers: Newberry Consort

    • Paintings - Jacob van Velsen: A Musical Party; Jan Olis: A Musical Party.
    • Harmonia Mundi HMU907123.
  • Joachim Van Den Hove

    Fantasia resonans

    Performer: Paul O’Dette (lute)

    • Painting – Hendrick ter Brugghen: A man playing a lute.
    • Harmonia Mundi HMU907123.
  • Constantijn Huygens

    Morte dolce; Caccia amorosa

    Performers: Julia Gooding (soprano), Christopher Wilson (theorbo)

    • Painting – Thomas de Keyser: Portrait of Constantijn Huygens and his (?) Clerk.
    • Metronome METCD1051.
  • Jacob van Eyck

    Doen Daphne d'over schoone Maeght

    Performer: Erik Bosgraaf (recorder)

    • Painting – Carel Fabritius: A View of Delft, with a Musical Instrument Seller’s Stall.
    • Brilliant Classics 93391.
  • Johann Schop

    Lachrymae Pavan

    Performers: Annegret Siedel (violin), Hubert Hoffmann (theorbo)

    • Painting – Jan Treck: Vanitas Still Life.
    • Musicaphon M56830.
  • Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

    Ich voer al over Rhijn

    Performer: Ton Koopman (virginals)

    • Painting – Jan Vermeer: A Young Woman standing at a Virginal; A Young Woman seated at a Virginal.
    • Philips 468 417-2.
  • Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

    Mein junges Leben hat ein Endt

  • Nicolaus a Kempis

    Sinfonia in D major

  • Joachim Van Den Hove

    Fantasia resonans

    Performer: Paul O’Dette.
  • Constantijn Huygens

    Morte dolce

  • Constantijn Huygens

    Caccia amorosa

  • Jacob van Eyck

    Doen Daphne d'over schoone Maeght

  • Johann Schop

    Lachrymae Pavan

  • Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck

    Ich voer al over Rhijn

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  • Sun 30 Jun 2013 13:00

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