Trio CMB (1976)

Trio CMB (Carl Michael Bellman) perform epistles, and songs by the Swedish songwriter, composer, musician, poet and entertainer. A central figure in the Swedish song tradition and remains a powerful influence in Swedish music, as well as in Scandinavian literature, to this day. Bellman has been compared to Shakespeare, Beethoven, Mozart, and Hogarth, but his gift, using elegantly rococo classical references in comic contrast to sordid drinking and prostitution-at once regretted and celebrated in song-is unique.