Leifs: The Creation Of The World / Bäumer, Gudbjörnsson

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BIS
Release Date
October 1, 2007
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      LEIFS, JON
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Iceland Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Bjarni Thor, Schola, Gunnar, Kristinsson, Hermann, Gudbjornsson, Baumer
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      October 01, 2007
    • UPC
      7318599913506
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-SACD-1350
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Choral - Sacred
    Works ⌄

    1. Ar var alda (Young Were the Years)

      Composer: Jón Leifs

      Ensemble: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis, Iceland Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Gunnar Gudbjörnsson, Bjarni Thor Kristinsson

      Conductor: Hermann Bäumer

    2. Ymir

      Composer: Jón Leifs

      Ensemble: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis, Iceland Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Gunnar Gudbjörnsson, Bjarni Thor Kristinsson

      Conductor: Hermann Bäumer

    3. Thursa Thjodar sjot (The Giants' Palace)

      Composer: Jón Leifs

      Ensemble: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis, Iceland Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Hermann Bäumer

    4. Audhumla, Odinn ok hans braedr (Audhumla, Odin and his Brothers)

      Composer: Jón Leifs

      Ensemble: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis, Iceland Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Gunnar Gudbjörnsson, Bjarni Thor Kristinsson

      Conductor: Hermann Bäumer

    5. Saer (Sea)

      Composer: Jón Leifs

      Ensemble: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis, Iceland Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Gunnar Gudbjörnsson, Bjarni Thor Kristinsson

      Conductor: Hermann Bäumer

    6. Jord (Earth)

      Composer: Jón Leifs

      Ensemble: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis, Iceland Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Gunnar Gudbjörnsson, Bjarni Thor Kristinsson

      Conductor: Hermann Bäumer

    7. Himinn, sol, dagr (Sky, Sun, Day)

      Composer: Jón Leifs

      Ensemble: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis, Iceland Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Hermann Bäumer

    8. Nott, morgunn (Night, Morning)

      Composer: Jón Leifs

      Ensemble: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis, Iceland Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Gunnar Gudbjörnsson, Bjarni Thor Kristinsson

      Conductor: Hermann Bäumer

    9. Asgardr, Askr ok Embla, Midgardr (Asgard, Ash and Embla, Midgard)

      Composer: Jón Leifs

      Ensemble: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis, Iceland Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Gunnar Gudbjörnsson, Bjarni Thor Kristinsson

      Conductor: Hermann Bäumer

    10. Scherzo: Allir menn urdut jafnspakir (All Men Aren't Equally Wise)

      Composer: Jón Leifs

      Ensemble: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis, Iceland Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Gunnar Gudbjörnsson, Bjarni Thor Kristinsson

      Conductor: Hermann Bäumer

    11. Vidr, sumar, logn (Wood, Summer, Calm)

      Composer: Jón Leifs

      Ensemble: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis, Iceland Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Gunnar Gudbjörnsson, Bjarni Thor Kristinsson

      Conductor: Hermann Bäumer

    12. Vetr ok vindr (Winter and Wind)

      Composer: Jón Leifs

      Ensemble: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis, Iceland Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Gunnar Gudbjörnsson, Bjarni Thor Kristinsson

      Conductor: Hermann Bäumer

    13. Finale: Ifing, niu heimar (Ifing, Nine Worlds)

      Composer: Jón Leifs

      Ensemble: Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis, Iceland Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Gunnar Gudbjörnsson, Bjarni Thor Kristinsson

      Conductor: Hermann Bäumer


(World Première Recording) Few composers have been as consistently preoccupied with their national origins as Jón Leifs, who only found his calling as a composer when he encountered a collection of Icelandic folk music. From the very beginning, Iceland, its music and myths, its landscape and climate furnished him with the material for almost all of his compositions. And from the very beginning Leifs knew that he wanted to create a great oratorio using texts from the Edda, Iceland's national treasure. The scoring is among Leifs' most colourful and inspired, including the composer's signature Nordic lurs and an extended percussion section. This landmark in Icelandic music is performed by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the Schola Cantorum choir under the baton of Hermann Bäumer - a constellation that last came together on disc on the highly acclaimed Viking's Answer, the previous Leifs' release on BIS.