Bent Sørensen: Birds And Bells: Trombone: Instrumental Work

Solo Trombone part for Bent Sørensen's Birds And Bells - Trombone Concerto. Score available: KP00531 Birds and Bells was composed in 1995 for the Swedish trombonist Christian Lindberg. As the title suggests it is not a 'roaring' trombone concerto but rather a 'pianissimo concerto' filled with the contents of the title. It must be emphasized that 'bells' here has nothing to do with death or destruction which connoisseurs of my music might be tempted to think. The work is in three movements which are played without a break. The second movement ends with a kind of 'pseudo-nightingale cadenza' and I feel thethird to be a slow lullaby. Birds and Bells was premiered on 30.4.1996 with Christian Lindberg and the Aarhus Sinfonietta conducted by Søren K. Hansen. (Bent Sørensen)

Piano Solo-Lullabies / Vuggeviser for Piano solo was composed by Bent Sørensen in 2000. Preface / Programme Note: Some melodies keep haunting me; they will stick in my mind and I will walk about humming them and they will find their way into my music. Two such melodies are the basis for the present piano piece which I call LULLABIES. The first little tune began its life as a ballad in an operatic draft ofmine. Later on – with text by English poet Selima Hill – it became part of my songcycle ROSES ARE FALLING for mezzo soprano and piano. In the latter context it is a love song but I have always had a lullaby-feelingabout this tune and indeed as a lullaby it appears in my opera UNDER THE SKY to text by Peter Asmussen; inthe opera the loved one sings and hums to her beloved and make him come to rest. During LULLABIES the tune will appear a half tone lower with each entry and make its way downwards through the musical texture from upper voice to bassline. The other little melody is a true lullaby which I hummed for my youngest daughter to try and make her go to sleep. Later on it became the backdrop for the last movement of my trombone concerto BIRDS AND BELLS. The two melodies in their original form are reproduced at the beginning of LULLABIES.Bent Sørensen 2000