Bent Sørensen: Partituras dificil

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 sa...

Three Stones for female Voice was composed by Bent Sorensen in 2006. Dedicated Lore Lixenberg. Text: Anon. Programme note: 'Three stones is written on request by Lore Lixenberg to whom the little piec...

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 i...

The Lady And The Lark is a miniconcerto for Viola and six instruments (Flute, Clarinet, 2 Violins, Cello and Percussion). Throughout the 5 short movements of the work are allusions to the birdsong of...

Ständchen for 8 instruments was composed by Bent Sorensen in 2005-06. The first three movements were written for Scharoun Ensemble and commissioned jointly by Eleanor Eisenmenger and the Scharoun Ense...

Work for Solo Piano. The composer writes: 'The Masque of the Red Death' was commissioned by and dedicated to Yvar Mikhashoff. The title refers to the short story with the same title by Edgar Allan Poe...

The composer writes, 'Quite some time ago I heard - through a conversation in a mobile phone - a wonderful concert of ringing church bells from an European capital. I found it very hard to concentrate...

Programme Note SIRENENGESANG was composed in the spring 1994 and was commis-sioned by the AVANTI! Chamber Orchestra. The work was written with support from NOMUS. The music is not a romantic reflectio...

Premiered by the Arditti String Quartet at the Institute of Contemporary Arts ICA London 22nd October 1995.

Songs Of The Decaying Garden, for Clarinet solo, was composed by Bent Sorensen in 1986.

Fragments Of Requiem for 12 Voices was composed by Bent Sørensen in 2007. The Requiem also consists of movements by Johannes Ockeghem from his &ldquo, Missa pro defunctis&rdquo, (15th Century). Writte...

Serenidad - Clarinet Concerto was composed by Bent Sørensen in 2012.

Silence is for 2 x 4 Percussion players. Composed by Bent Sorensen in 2014.

Silence for 2 x 4 Percussion players was composed by Bent Sorensen in 2014.

Bent Sørensen MINNELIEDER - ZWEITES MINNEWATER (1988, revised 1994). This work is a new version of the work MINNEWATER from 1988. The form and harmony have been more or less retained, but in th...

Funeral Procession for Violin, Viola and Chamber Ensemble was composed in 1989 as a commission from the Sonanza Ensemble. The music is, apart from a few swarming bursts, slow and silent. Dynamic is al...

Whispering for Recorder and Strings was composed by Bent Sorensen in 2014.

Sigrid's Lullaby / Sigrids Wiegenlied was composed by Bent Sorensen in 2010, for Sigrid on her birth. First performance by Leif Ove Andsnes at Ojal Music Festival, 2012. Also published in 12 Nocturnes...

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 con...

Parts for The Birds Of Lament by Bent Sorensen in 1996-97. For 2 Trombones and 3 Percussion.

Nocturnal (1998-2001) for Trombone and String Quartet was composed by Bent Sorensen. Progamme note: The two movements of 'Nocturnal' were written with a gab of three years. The last movement, which be...

Parts for Nocturnal (1998-2001) for Trombone and String Quartet by Bent Sorensen.

Lontanamente - Fragments Of A Waltz for Clarinet solo was composed by Bent Sorensen in 2012. Commissioned by the 5th Carl Nielsen International Clarinet Competition in Odense, Denmark in 2013.

Accordion part for this work for Accordion and Strings.

Fantasia Appassionata for Piano solo by Bent Sørensen. Commissoned for the 40th Anniversary of The Summer Concert of Langeland (2017). Written for The Summer Concert of Langeland - Bodil Steensen-Leth...