Leifs: Erfiljóð (Élégies)

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Label
BIS
Release Date
November 11, 2014
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      LEIFS, JON
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra, Male-Voice Choir
    • PERFORMER
      Wilkinson, Guomundsdottir, Ingolfsdottir
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 11, 2014
    • UPC
      7318590020708
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2070
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE

Aside from three impressive string quartets, Icelandic composer Jón Leifs’ (1899–1968) chamber music consists of only two original works - Quintet, op. 50, Scherzo concreto, op. 58 - and his string quartet arrangement of his Variazioni pastorale, op. 8, originally for orchestra. + All of these works are included on this disc, which closes with one of the composer’s most personal works: Erfiljóð (Elegies), composed in 1947 shortly after the death by drowning of his young daughter Líf. + BIS Records have re-mastered these original Smekkleysa label recordings for this present release.