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Leif Kayser (1919-2001) was an indisputably gifted composer and quickly established himself as one of the coming young men of the Danish musical scene, until he abandoned it for a period to dedicate himself to the priesthood. Today the four symphonies in particular stand as some of the finest testimony to Kayser's talent in the repertoire. Dacapo released Symphonies 2 and 3 in 2007. Vol. 2 offers here the Late Romantic work of his youth, Symphony no. 1 from 1939, as well as the fourth and last symphony from 1963 with a correspondingly far more inward, almost defiant tonal idiom.