Writing to Vermeer Digital MP3 Album

Writing to Vermeer Digital MP3 AlbumGramophone calls this 1998 collaboration between Andriessen and librettist Peter Greenaway about the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer "altogether absorbing." Time Out New York exclaims: "Nonesuch has gone out of its way to make this recording a striking sonic document."

released in honor of the composer's 80th birthday

was a labor of love for both the director and composer

The soundtrack was originally released on Nonesuch in 2000

Singer-songwriter Billy Bragg considers it a favorite and tells the New York Times: “Woody Guthrie's spirit runs through this record very strongly

"A knockout celebration of music

which addresses the political/physical/spiritual consequences of war

" says American Songwriter

Mikel Patrick Avery

bassist Kermit Driscoll and drummer Joey Baron—was originally designed as live accompaniment to pioneering film comedian Keaton’s silent film

" The Guardian said

There are nine original songs by Merchant and an interpretation of “Hunting the Wren” by Ian Lynch of the Irish band Lankum

Riley incorporates into his composition "space sounds" (plasma waves) that NASA had collected from the Voyager probes