Vermeer Pictures
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Abkürzungsverzeichnis (PDF)
Boosey & Hawkes
“Andriessen has called the opera his ‘delicate, feminine daughter’, and it is true that, in the suite dubbed Vermeer Pictures, there is little sign of the punchy, splintery neo-primitivism that is his signature style. Instead the music is mostly lyrical, and the presence of cimbalom, two pianos and two amplified guitars reinforces the bewitching radiance of the harmony… [Yet] there is still a bracing, confrontational tone beneath the surface. Like his musical godfather Stravinsky, Andriessen renounces as much as he embraces, and it is this tendency that gives power and focus to his time-travelling journeys between late Renaissance and jazz.”
Daily Telegraph