SKU: HL.14030988
ISBN 9788759877319.
Alman - String Quartet was composed by Bent Sorensen in 1984. Parts available: WH29837A Programme Note: In Alman, which consists of 3 movements, it is the dynamic waves that are making the form. Constantly something is created, sheltered by these waves, things are hidden or are having their own expression. In this light the first movement can be seen as a big curve, and the second movement as a mosaic. In the manic last movement, the music is whipped against climax. This movement is supported by a quotation of the young Danish poet Michael Strunge. The title of Alman, is the name of a dance (Fitzwilliam Virginal Book), even though this is hardly heard in my quartet. (BentSorensen).
SKU: HL.14030960
ISBN 9788759889480. Danish.
Intermezzi from the opera Under Himlen was composed by Bent Sorensen in 2003. Scored for 2 Mezzosoparanos and Orchestra. Text by Peter Asmussen. Programme Note: In March 2003, when the Royal Theatre premiered the composer Bent Sorensen's and the dramatist Peter Asmussen's opera Under the Sky, it was not only Bent Sorensen's first opera on the large scale, but also his first work as a music dramatist at all. The challenge of composing an opera came from the general manager of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR, Per Erik Veng, who had asked Asmussen in 1996 whether he would write the libretto for an opera and pick out a composer to work with on it. Asmussen was willing, and he pointed to Bent Sorensen as the composer. Bent Sorensen reacted positively to Per Erik Veng's suggestion of an opera collaboration with Asmussen, and with the opera agreement settled, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR was then offered an independent work. It is related to the opera, but sheds light on it from a different angle - Bent Sorensen himself compares it to a film 'trailer'. The result is Intermezzi, a suite in five movements. Intermezzi is expressly not just a garland of selected episodes from the opera, but an independent work built up in one long symmetrical sequence with instrumental passages in the middle of the first, third and fifth movements as well as the purely instrumental second and fourth movements, as the bearing pillars of the work. Fragments of the story of Ida and Molte (both mezzo-sopranos) are told, but they do not happen in the same order or with the same conclusion as in the opera. In this way Intermezzi becomes a comment on how not everything in the past is necessarily what it seems, or what one at first makes of it. In the first movement Ida sings to Magius that she is carrying Molte's child, while from afar Molte observes the idyllic world from the outside. The second movement is instrumental, while the third begins with Ida's love aria, which merges into a great instrumental passage before the movement ends with Molte's cynical remark that Ida is simply a fairytale, a book one closes. After a brief instrumental fourth movement comes the fifth, where Molte laments his coldness and isolation amidst all the riches, and seduces Ida by urging her to liberate him with her warmth. Jakob Levinsen.
SKU: HL.14001159
ISBN 9788759805527. UPC: 888680792657. 8.25x11.75x0.106 inches.
Study score to Bent Sorensen's Adieu for String Quartet. The slow choral-like music which initiates Adieu was the result of an image or almost a dream that I had. Without being able to explain why, I imagined a procession of people, maybe medieval monks, wearing large gray mantles with Ku-Klux-Klan-like white cowls on their heads, something like a funeral procession. The title Adieu is partly a comment on this funeral procession, but also used because the piece is split up by three slow-ascending glissandi, a kind of farewell glissandi which removes the intervening music. The first absorbing glissando is soft and removes both the slow funeral choral and the agitating figures in the first half of the piece. The second glissando is given only to the cello and crawls out from the elegiac melodies in the middle part. The third and final glissando is intense and agitating, and prepares the way for the end of the piece. This end primarily deals with the relationship fast - slow. This relationship is turned topsy turvy: the music gets faster and faster until it is so fast that it suddenly becomes slow, so slow in fact that it is very quickly able to become extremely fast again. Bent Sorensen.
SKU: HL.14033403
ISBN 9788759858684. International (more than one language).
Bent Sorensen THE WINGS OF NIGHTI do not yet know what to write about this short piece which I have just finished.But like my Piano Concerto LA NOTTE, it seems to take place at night-time - or perhaps it is only because I wrote the piece by night. In short, the title is from Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'.Juliet sings to the night - the night of love: 'Come, night; come Romeo; come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of nightWhither than new snow upon a raven's back.THE WINGS OF NIGHT was composed as a commission from the Warsaw Autumn for Christian Lindberg and the Silesian String Quartet.Bent Sorensen.
SKU: HL.14030357
ISBN 9788759854471. English.
This is the Score for Bent Soreensen's 2001 composition, Six Songs, composed for Mezzo-soprano and Violin. Sorensen has set four verses by Japanese poet, Ono No Komachi and two by the Korean, Hwang Chin-i in a typically dramatic and colorful style. The music compounds the beautiful and passionate imagery of each text, which are all short verses loaded with meaning.
SKU: HL.14030961
ISBN 9788759857458. English.
Score of the Danish Composer's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra written in 1996. Bent Sorensen writes: 'The title of this piano concerto came, as usual, very early to me, when my thoughts about the work had started to circulate, but before 'real' music was written down. I held on to the Italian title, even though its association with Vivaldi had no influence on my music, and even when German, French, English, and Danish titles covering almost the same content -'Nachtmusik', 'Nocturne', 'By Night', 'Om Natten', were just about to get the upper hand. The piano concerto has, then, in my opinion, something to do with night, but to describe this further is at least as difficult to me as it is to defend the final Italian title against those which were rejected. The Piano Concerto is in two movements. The first, swarming, is perhaps the mystery of the night, and the second perhaps the dreams of the night; with this, however, I have already given the concerto a more programmatic content than I can defend. Each movement ends with a cadenza and perhaps the last of those - the ending of the work that is - is inspired by a sequence from Bruce Chatwin's wonderful book 'The Viceroy of Ouidah': Or the Amazons howling. 'No, No, No. It was not the leopard that killed him. Not the buffalo that killed him. It was night. Night that killed him!'.
SKU: HL.14029176
ISBN 9788759858288. German.
SKU: HL.14035167
ISBN 9788759855959. Danish.
Composer Note: Vokalise is another selection from Under the Sky. Ida's voice has been taken out of the compact orchestral setting, and is left naked and unaccompanied. Vokalise is one scene earlier in the opera than the Cavatina. Ida enters to where her husband, Magius, is sitting. He wants her dress herself up more, become even more beautiful. Ida wants to feel his love. '...Do you hear the way I call on you at night-time? Do you hear the way I cry myself to sleep? Do you hear the way I long to feel your skin? I'm burning up with your coldness. I want you, my beloved, I want you to love me.' She is disappointed, and loses the last remnant of love when she finds out that her beauty and adornment are only to be used in a power game between two men. --Bent Sorensen.
SKU: HL.14030993
ISBN 9788759872109. Danish.
Bent Sorensen Screie Und Melancholie KOPI.
SKU: HL.14043200
ISBN 9788759831113. English.
Serenissima by the Danish composer Bent Sorensen , scored for solo Violin.
SKU: HL.14030983
ISBN 9788759862032. English.
Version for Solo Violin.
SKU: HL.14030982
ISBN 9788759856659. English-Danish.
Work for Soprano and Tenor Soloists, SATB Choir and Orchestra. Commissioned by Danish Radio.
SKU: HL.14030973
9.5x14.25x0.172 inches.
This is The Score for Schattenlinie, a Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano by contemporary Danish composer, Bent Sorensen, written in 2005.
SKU: HL.14025865
ISBN 9788759857021. Danish.
For Tenor and Piano.
SKU: HL.14030996
ISBN 9788759864586.
The composer writes: 'My Symphony is in two movements which, however, are played without a break. Taken together they progress from the extremely high, almost unison screams and glissandi of the opening via blurred melodic and swarming rhythmic formations, towards the slow ending with its simple and more clearly out-lined melodic fragments. The designation 'symphony' is in this case much more a title than a genre indication. During my work on the piece I never considered having any other title than this magical and associative word: 'Symphony'.'.
SKU: HL.14030974
ISBN 9788759808016. 7.25x10.25x0.225 inches. English.
Premiered by the Arditti String Quartet at the Institute of Contemporary Arts ICA London 22nd October 1995.
SKU: HL.14030964
ISBN 9788759861455. English.
The Composer writes: 'In February 1987 I saw in the Tate Gallery in London a painting by the Victorian English painter John William Waterhouse. The painting kept haunting my memory, and as I at the same time planned to write a piece for solo Viola, my ideas for the music and the memory of the painting fused more and more. I decided, then, to let my piece borrow the title of Waterhouse's painting: The Lady Of Shalott. The picture of a mad-like, pale, and perhaps singing woman alone in a boat without sculls, which calmly slips out from the rush growth of the river is an illustration for the ending of Alfred Tennyson's poem by the same title, which again plaits into the old English legends about King Arthur. My piece tries to meander - like the river at Camelot - among these sources.' As suggested above the piece was originally written for Viola solo. This version for String Quartet is from 1993.
