Jón Leifs - Piano Music (Örn Magnússon)

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Composer: Jón Leifs

• (01) Vökudraumur (Hugleiðing [Rêverie])
• (02) Torrer - Intermezzo, Op. 1 No. 2
• (03) Fjögur lög fyrir pianoforte (Four Pieces for the Piano), Op. 2
• (07) Íslensk þjóðlög (Icelandic Folk-songs)
• (32) Rímnadanslög (Icelandic Dances), Op. 11
• (36) Ný rímnadanslög (New Icelandic dances), Op. 14b
• (38) Strákalag (Boy's song), Op. 49

Örn Magnússon, piano
Date: 1994
Label: BIS
http://bis.se/label/bis/leifs-the-complete-piano-music

More info & reviews:
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Piano-Music-Jon-Leifs/dp/B0000016LQ

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Jón Leifs (1 May 1899 – 30 July 1968), was an Icelandic composer, pianist, and conductor. Born in Iceland, he left for Germany in 1916 to study at the Leipzig Conservatory and graduated in 1921. During this period he also studied composition with Ferruccio Busoni. Beginning with piano arrangements of Icelandic folk songs, Leifs started an active career as a composer in the 1920s. In 1945 he moved back to Iceland, and became a fierce proponent of music education and of artists' rights. Most of his works is inspired by Icelandic natural phenomena and classic Icelandic sagas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3n_Leifs

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Örn Magnússon (born 15 January 1959 in Ólafsfjörður, Iceland) is an Icelandic pianist, organist and choirmaster. Magnússon graduated from the Akureyri Music College in Iceland and then went on to further studies in Manchester, Berlin and London. Having performed in Scandinavia, the United Kingdom and many other European countries as well as Japan, he is particularly known for his interest and devotion to Icelandic music, old and new, especially the music of the towering figure amongst Icelandic composers, Jón Leifs. Magnússon is currently organist and cantor in the church of Breiðholt in Reykjavik.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/989400-%C3%96rn-Magn%C3%BAsson
https://www.naxos.com/person/Orn_Magnusson/9341.htm

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