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Performance and news from the world of early music.

An exploration of early music, looking at early developments in musical performance and composition in Britain and abroad. UK only: please note that not all episodes are podcast.

The Early Music Show: Vermeer and Music

Vermeer and Music

30/06/2013

BBC Radio 3 - The Early Music Show, Vermeer and Music

Lucie Skeaping chooses music to accompany the National Gallery's Vermeer exhibition.

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.

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