Discs etc: Music CDs - CLASSICAL HHHH Gooding/Cerasi/Wilson Music from the time of Vermeer METRONOME

From: The Independent - London | Date: June 24, 2001| Author: Anna Picard | Copyright information

The not so Olde Worlde of exhibition spin-offs has traditionally been dominated by the kind of gewgaws that would have most great masters spinning in their graves. How nice, then, to find a tie-in disc that not only complements the National Gallery's Vermeer exhibition but adds to our understanding of it. This programme of music from the library of composer and art collector Constantijn Huygens gives some idea of what sounds might have come from the virginals played by Vermeer's serene port...

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