Lumbye’s music is infectiously good-humoured, as this delightful collection well illustrates. He wrote in all the major dance forms that were popular during his lifetime: these included, as well as the waltz, the lively polka and the more stately polka mazurka. The galop was one of the most vigorous dance forms of the mid-nineteenth century, as can be heard here. Although the Strauss family gained international fame and fortune by writing similar music, Lumbye’s is equally good, packed with melodious and heart-warming tunes and rhythms.