Vermeer

Après une approche historique, et pour cerner l'effet propre au peintre néerlandais Vermeer (1632-1675), l'auteur délimite ce qui fait dans le troisième quart du XVIIe siècle la différence du peintre de Delft avec ses contemporains. Il décrypte l'individualité d'une peinture pourtant enracinée dans les pratiques picturales communes à son époque et à sa situation géographique. …

One of the great recent versions of - arguably - the towering string quartets of the 20th century is by frequent Buffalo visitors the Vermeer Quartet. Three decades separate the composition of the first Bartok Quartet from the sixth and last. Not only is the stylistic diversity within them often much exaggerated but so too are the difficulties presented by the third quartet, which, for all its dissonance, is so structurally cohesive (it's the shortest at 15 minutes - half the length of the first, fifth and sixth) that it remains one of the most powerful works in the quartet repertoire.

The internationally celebrated Vermeer Quartet, known for its extensive, major-label recordings of standard repertoire, has turned to its hometown record label, Chicago’s Cedille Records, for a program of important yet surprisingly neglected Tchaikovsky works.