Music Chat: The Musical Cataclysms of Jón Leifs

Iceland's greatest composer, Jón Leifs created the most powerful and graphic musical depictions of nature's grandeur and fury, evoking erupting volcanos, geysers, waterfalls, and drifting ice floes. But his personal idiom, based on the primal rhythms and harmonies of Icelandic folk music, was capable of much more than just that. Let's take a closer look. Musical Examples courtesy of BIS and Ondine Records.