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cover: Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-Portrait, 1659, National Gallery

ofArt, Washington, Andrew W. Mellon Collection

The Sixty-fifth Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

“Sixty-five, but not retiring”

National Gallery of Art 

2,593rd Concert

Peter de Groot, countertenor

Stephen Ackert, harpsichordist

Daniel Rippe, gambist

Presented in honor of

Strokes ofGenius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings

November 19, 2006

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building Lecture Hall

Admissionfixe
Program

Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687)

Aubade

Multi dicunt multi

Laetatus sum

Samuel Scheldt (1587-1654)

Variations on Wehe, Windgen, Wehe

John Dowland (1563-1626) and Adriaen Valerius (c. 1575-1625)

Myn ziele treurt

Adriaen Valerius

Song ofthe Holland and Zeeland Seafarers

Song ofthe Navigators to the West India

Jacob van Eyck the Younger (c. 1590-1657)

Division on Questa dolce sirena

From Der Fluyten Lusthof Tweede Deel (Amsterdam, 1654)

Jan Harmensz Krul (1601/1602-1646)

Kracht der liefde

Laura’s droom liedt

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)

Variations on Mein junges Leben hat ein End

Anonymous

Three Songs from Hippolytus

Sneller vlucht hij (melody. Phoebus is lang over

O schoonheid twijfelachtig

Hoe draaitfortuin het al

Johann Schop (1590-1667)

Lachrime Pavaen

From ‘t Uitnement Kabinet (Amsterdam, 1646)

Constantijn Huygens

Cognovi

De projundis

Serenade
The Musicians

PETER DE GROOT

A former student ofthe distinguished singing teacher Aafje Heynis at the 

Arnhem Conservatory of Music in The Netherlands, Peter de Groot has sung

with the Camerata Trajectina, the Collegium Vocale Gent under Philippe 

Herreweghe, the Currende Consort, the Gesualdo Consort, the Huelgas 

Ensemble, and Teatro Lirico. He has also worked with the Amsterdam

Baroque Choir under Ton Koopman and The Netherlands Chamber Choir.

He is the artistic leader ofthe Egidius Kwartet, with whom he performed at

the National Gallery ofArt in March 2006, in a special program presented

in honor ofthe exhibition Amorous Intrigues and Painterly Refinement: The

Art ofFrans van Mieris. In addition to serving as the highest ofthe four male 

voices in the Egidius Kwartet, De Groot carries out the research behind

the ensemble’s programming and encourages contemporary composers 

to write for the group. As a result of his research, the Kwartet performed 

and recorded the works of noted Northern Renaissance composer Tielman

Susato (c. 1500-c. 1563) and those oftwo masters ofthe chapel of Charles v,

Cornelius Canis (c. 1510-1561) and Nicolas Payen (fl. 1540-1559). In 2004

De Groot collaborated with George Washington University professor Laura

Youens in the preparation of a CD of chansons by Thomas Crecquillon 

(c. 1505-1557). His current research project involves recording the Dutch 

songs from an early sixteenth-century collection compiled by Laurweryn

van Watervliet.

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STEPHEN ACKERT

Stephen Ackert is the head ofthe music department at the National Gallery

and a member ofthe adjunct music faculty at Northern Virginia Community

College, Alexandria campus. He studied organ and harpsichord as a Fulbright

scholar in Frankfurt, Germany, where his teachers were Maria Jaeger-Jung

and Helmut Walcha. Ackert has served three churches in the Washington,

DC, area, most recently The United Church (from 1990 to 2003), where he

founded and presented a series of Bach concerts. In 2006 he completed his

eighth recital tour ofGermany, playing in historic churches and concert halls

in Lower Saxony.

DANIEL RIPPE

Daniel Rippe has distinguished himself as an early-music performer on

viola da gamba, baroque cello, and medieval fiddle. He is active as a chamber musician and soloist, with numerous CDs to his credit on the Centaur

and Koch labels. He is the founder and editor ofRipMeister Publications, 

which has produced recital and concert programs, research papers, and five

editions of printed music. In addition, he has developed music notation software. Rippe’s skills extend to the visual arts as well, and he works in many

media, including watercolor, spray paint, pen and ink, and graphic design.

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Next Week at the National Gallery ofArt

National Gallery Vocal Arts Ensemble

Rosa Lamoreaux, artistic director

Choral music by Edward Elgar, Charles Hubert H. Parry, 

Charles Villiers Stanford, Samuel Wesley, and other composers

Presented in honor of

The Artist’s Vision: Romantic Traditions in Britain

November 26, 2006

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court