Päkkos Gustaf och Ole Hjorth

1996: GIGA GCD-28

1. Bingsjö Waltz
2. Hjortingen’s Polska
3. The 10 Crown Polska
4. Polska
5. Marching Tune
6. Norrbommen’s Polska
7. Målargubben’s Bridal Polska
8. Polska
9. Skänklåt
10. Polska
11. The Journey Home from the Timber Forest
12. Bridal Polska
13. Polska
14. Waltz
15. Devil’s Polska
16. Shepherd Tune Polska
17. Love Song
18. Skäklåt
19. Pekkos Per’s Grand Polska
20. Hjortingen’s March
21. Bridal March
22. Little Polska
23. Polska
24. Polska
25. Pekkos Per’s Bridal March
26. Polska
27. The Crying Tune

I got this CD because Ole Hjorth had performed a hypnotically pattern-shifting track called simply “Vals” with the fiddler Björn Stäbi which appeared on a Nonesuch Explorer sampler LP called Dances of the World. I figured it would be of the same ilk, which it is, but none of the tracks here has quite the dizzying seduction that “Vals” did.

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