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| | Nimbus Records, Classical, NI 5174, Songs of Carl Michael Bellman, Martin Best - Title Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Carl Michael Bellman is the supreme writer of sung poetry. |
 | | It is a combination which even today holds his fellow Scandinavians in thrall from the cradle up. |
 | | A Bellman concert is still, nearly 200 years after his death, sure-fire box office; moreover, although his images are dense, his verses thick with classical allusion, his choice of melodies refined, and the speed of his thought bewildering, his appeal is universal; everybody in Scandinavia knows and loves Bellman. |
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