John Glenesk Mortimer

Carnival of Venice, the famous Italian folk song theme, is impressively presented in this virtuoso version by Herman Bellstedt, one of the outstanding masters of the art of variation. The work highlig...

Carnival of Venice, the famous Italian folk song theme, is impressively presented in this virtuoso version by Herman Bellstedt, one of the outstanding masters of the art of variation. The work highlig...

Á Sprengisandi is a well-known melody from Icelandic folklore, deeply rooted in the country's collective consciousness. The song depicts the dangerous crossing of the highland region of Sprengisandur...

Á Sprengisandi is a well-known melody from Icelandic folklore, deeply rooted in the country's collective consciousness. The song depicts the dangerous crossing of the highland region of Sprengisandur...

Á Sprengisandi is a well-known melody from Icelandic folklore, deeply rooted in the country's collective consciousness. The song depicts the dangerous crossing of the highland region of Sprengisandur...

Á Sprengisandi is a well-known melody from Icelandic folklore, deeply rooted in the country's collective consciousness. The song depicts the dangerous crossing of the highland region of Sprengisandur...

I - Ring out, wild bells (Alfred Tennyson) This is a poem for New Year's Eve, when the bells ring out at midnight. The bells are meant to "ring out" all the negatives of life: dishonesty, pain, war, m...

I - Ring out, wild bells (Alfred Tennyson) This is a poem for New Year's Eve, when the bells ring out at midnight. The bells are meant to "ring out" all the negatives of life: dishonesty, pain, war, m...

The text is a reworking of an old Chinese poem that tells the story of a nobleman riding through a lonely mountainous region. Suddenly he sees a skeleton lying by the wayside. He stops and asks aloud...

The text is a reworking of an old Chinese poem that tells the story of a nobleman riding through a lonely mountainous region. Suddenly he sees a skeleton lying by the wayside. He stops and asks aloud...

This is a cycle of four songs based on poems by the Latin poet Catullus (ca. 84-54 BC). The poet was passionately in love with a married woman whom he calls Lesbia, but whose real name was Clodia. It...

This is a cycle of four songs based on poems by the Latin poet Catullus (ca. 84-54 BC). The poet was passionately in love with a married woman whom he calls Lesbia, but whose real name was Clodia. It...