Name Bent Sorensen Role Composer | Albums From Scandinavia | |
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Bent sorensen phantasmagoria for piano trio 2007
Bent Sørensen (born July 18, 1958) is a Danish composer.
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- Bent sorensen phantasmagoria for piano trio 2007
- Longleash trio bent sorensen phantasmagoria on classical 90 5
- Organ
- Piano
- Solo
- Chamber music 2 to 6 players
- Ensemble 7 or more players
- Orchestra
- Concertos
- Choir
- Solo voices and chamber ensemble
- Choir and orchestra or ensemble
- Opera
- Monographies
- Other recordings
- Songs
- References

He studied composition with Ib Nørholm at the Royal Danish Academy of Music and with Per Nørgård at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus.

His mature works create a sense of decay that is emotionally similar to viewing an aging visual artwork. There is a sense of compromised beauty. Sørensen achieves this by treating major/minor tonalities with microtonal inflections and blurring the harmonies with glissandi. Examples of this technique can be found in his trombone concerto "Birds and Bells", a work for orchestra and choir "Echoing Garden", and his violin concerto "Sterbende Gärten", which took the prestigious Nordic Music Prize in 1996. His early works deal with folksong in prosaic way. Sørensen has composed in a variety of mediums, including opera (his "Under the Sky" was premiered in 2004 at the Royal Opera House in Copenhagen), orchestra, choir, chamber ensemble and solo instruments, but notably he has not composed any electroacoustic music.
Since 2008 he has been a visiting professor of composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Longleash trio bent sorensen phantasmagoria on classical 90 5
Organ
Piano
Solo
Chamber music (2 to 6 players)
Ensemble (7 or more players)
Orchestra
Concertos
Choir
Solo voice(s) and chamber ensemble
Choir and orchestra or ensemble
Opera
Monographies
Other recordings
Songs
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Hunting SongThe Story of Music · 2016
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