OndineOndine is the story of Syracuse, a simple fisherman who catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his trawler nets. The woman seems to be dead, but then she comes alive before Syracuse's eyes, and he thinks he may be seeing things. However, with the help of his irrepressible daughter, Annie, he comes to believe that the fantastical might be possible and that the woman (Ondine) might be a myth come true. Ondine and Syracuse fall passionately in love,

and for the rest of his life he immersed himself in Norwegian literature and folk music

Six compositions from this valuable collection were selected for the present recording

resemble an enchanted parenthesis in the hectic and exhausting life of the singer then at the height of his glory

and remembers his influence 'of course though his extraordinary pianistic imagination but even more so by his physical allure and overwhelming personality

written for Easter

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or an aesthetic electronic intervention

Glass Moon3

2020 album from banjo virtuoso Danny Barnes

in music that leaps and dances as much as it sings

The group has appeared at such prestigious venues at Geneva's Victoria Hall and the concert halls of the Moscow Conservatory and St Petersburg Philharmonic

and clarinetist Brian Walsh