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1 Sommarpsalm - En vänlig grönskas rika dräkt 03:41
    by Waldemar Åhlén, Carl David af Wirsén, Arr. Mika Pohjola
2 I denna ljuva sommartid 04:00
    by Nathan Söderblom, Arr. Mika Pohjola
3 Var är den vän 02:13
    by Swedish Traditional, Arr. Mika Pohjola
4 Den blomstertid nu kommer 03:45
    by Israel Kolmodin, J.O. Wallin, Arr. Mika Pohjola
5 Det gåtfulla folket 04:08
    by Olle Adolphson
6 Har du sett Herr Kantarell 03:20
    by Herman Palm, Jeanna Oterdahl, Arr. Mika Pohjola
7 Brevet från Lillan 02:18
    by Evert Taube (Warner Chappell Music, Inc.)
8 Sockerbagaren 02:27
    by Alice Tegnér, Arr. Mika Pohjola
9 Du är det vackra jag ser i mitt liv 03:31
    by Michel Legrand, Lars Nordlander (Alfred Publishing Co, Inc.)
10 Videvisan - Sov du lilla videung - Solskenets visa 02:13
    by Alice Tegnér, Zacharias Topelius, Arr. Mika Pohjola
11 Tillägnan 05:12
    by Monica Dominique, Lars Forssell (Warner Chappell Music, Inc.)
12 Höstvisa 04:25
    by Tove Jansson, Erna Tauro (Universal Music, Inc.)
13 Kärleksvals 02:07
    by Ulrik Neumann, Håkan Elmquist (Reuter & Reuter)
14 Danslåt (Litti-litti-li) 02:26
    by Alice Tegnér, Astrid Gullstrand, Arr. Mika Pohjola
15 Om allt inte var 02:31
    by Benedict Zilliacus, Erna Tauro (Universal Music, Inc.)
16 Idyllvisa 04:35
    by Bengt Ahlfors, Frej Lindqvist, Erna Tauro (Universal Music, Inc.)
17 Vart ska du gå, min lilla flicka? 01:53
    by Alice Tegnér, Arr. Mika Pohjola
18 Stinas pepparkaks-soldat 01:41
    by Felix Körling, Arr. Mika Pohjola
19 Muminmammans visa 01:48
    by Tove Jansson, Mika Pohjola (Mika Music)
20 Mumintrollets visa 03:01
    by Tove Jansson, Erna Tauro (Universal Music, Inc.)
21 Bereden väg för Herran 04:01
    by German Traditional, Arr. Mika Pohjola (Mika Music)
22 Världens frälsare kom här 03:34
    by Aurelius Ambrosius, Arr. Mika Pohjola (Mika Music)
23 Den signade dag 03:21
    by Traditional, Arr. Mika Pohjola (Mika Music)
24 Gammal är kyrkan 04:31
    by Ludvig Lindeman, Arr. Mika Pohjola (Mika Music)
25 Det är en ros utsprungen 02:52
    by Traditional, Arr. Mika Pohjola (Mika Music)

Total Time: 79:34

About Swedish Songs - The Essential Collection

A fruitful cooperation since the early 1990s, vocalist Johanna Grüssner and pianist-composer Mika Pohjola release their twenty-five best tracks on this celebration album.

Grüssner and Pohjola have worked closely since the 1990s, when they were students at the renowned Berklee College of Music in Boston. They later performed and recorded on the New York jazz scene, before moving back to Stockholm, Sweden to do the same.

The song selections here offer a list of essential songs from the Scandinavian standards repertoire, covering originals by songwriters Evert Taube, Olle Adolphson, Alice Tegnér and Erna Tauro, and several traditional hymns which are often found on Scandinavian people's lips. Rendered in a voice-piano duo format, as well as self-multilayered choirs, Grüssner and Pohjola have created a trademark sound with Grüssner's clear-toned and expressive voice and Pohjola's subtle jazz and impressionistic harmonic language, which he utilizes on the piano as well as in his vocal ensemble arrangements.

While these songs are often performed in Scandinavia in a more traditional form, these interpretations offer remarkable nuances in harmony, tone and variation in timbre. Overall, "Swedish Songs: The Essential Collection" is not only a representation of this marvelous duo, but serves as an ample introduction to what Scandinavian song tradition can be at its best.

Credits

Johanna Grüssner - voice
Mika Pohjola - piano, arranger
and several others.

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