Bent Sorensen - Snowbells (works for choir)
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Label: Dacapo
Cat No: 6220629
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 26th February 2016
Contents
Works
'og solen gar ned' ('and the sun sets')Benedictus
Grafodt (Greyborn)
Havet star sa blankt og stille (The sea stands so still and shining)
Lacrimosa
Livet og doden (Life and death)
Motets (3)
Sneeklokken (The Snowbell)
Sneklokker (Snowbells)
Artists
Danish National Vocal EnsembleConductor
Paul HillierWorks
'og solen gar ned' ('and the sun sets')Benedictus
Grafodt (Greyborn)
Havet star sa blankt og stille (The sea stands so still and shining)
Lacrimosa
Livet og doden (Life and death)
Motets (3)
Sneeklokken (The Snowbell)
Sneklokker (Snowbells)
Artists
Danish National Vocal EnsembleConductor
Paul HillierAbout
“It reminds me of something I’ve never heard!”
Such was the spontaneous reaction of the Norwegian composer Arne Nordheim upon hearing a work by Bent Sørensen. And it is not easy to imagine a more strangely to-the-point description of the ambiguous, almost paradoxical expressive idiom of this unique composer, who is without doubt the leading Danish composer of his generation.
Sørensen’s music is not recycled; in no way does it rely on the yellowing pages of history for its musical nourishment. His musical language is undeniably of the present day, both aesthetically and technically. The music does, however, appear to be pervaded with memories, wisdom of experience and old dreams, of the inevitability of transitoriness and parting. It is a flickering, glittering world where things seem to disappear at the slightest touch.
The moment something becomes tangible and recognizable, it dissolves, becomes obscured, or disappears. But this ghost-like indistinctness is nevertheless the work of an experienced illusionist. Perhaps Sørensen’s most singular talent is his ability to give voice to this indistinctness, to render it distinct and clear. Often he places very simple musical material inside an ingenious musical “hall of mirrors” in which echoes, and echoes of echoes, spread like ripples in water; the quiet, smudged contours, which sound as though heard through falling rain or misted windows, are always drawn in minute, calligraphic detail.
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