Work Information
Bent Sørensen : It is pain flowing down slowly on a white wall
| Publisher |
Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen |
Category |
Soloist(s) and Orchestra |
| Year Composed |
2010 |
Duration |
17 Minutes |
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Orchestration |
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Programme Note
It is pain flowing down slowly on a white wall – the sentence – the title – was given to me by a Hungarian women in August 2008. She put a note with the sentence in my hand after a festival and told me that my music reminded her of the sentence, written by a Hungarian poet. It is music full of slow motion – full of sorrow – full of tangos with no dancers. Maybe I imagined the tears of an accordion player flowing down slowly on the bellow of the instrument.
Bent Sørensen
Reviews
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The piece sounded likee a lament cut into fragments and smeared before the ink had dried. Almost-Wagnerian chords from the strings melded with glacial held notes on accordion. Towards the end, a folk song brought an almost-cheerful note into the proceedings, before the players processed off, like a memory fading. The finesse was undeniable.
Ivan Hewett, The Telegraph, 21/11/2011
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