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- Bent Sørensen
Sirenengesang (1994)
- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
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- 14 min
Programme Note
Sirenengesang was composed in the spring 1994 and was commissioned by the AVANTI! Chamber Orchestra. The work was written with support from NOMUS.
The music is not a romantic reflection on presumed siren songs. The title expresses an impalpable conception which manifests itself in dense quartertone-distorted melodies and manic, almost frozen tone-repetitions. Sometimes the music becomes static screams, sometimes there is room for small naive fragments of melody.
By the end of the piece a fragment from the 'Angel-Duet' of my The Echoing Garden emerges.
Sirengesang is dedicated to Per Nørgård.
- Bent Sørensen
The music is not a romantic reflection on presumed siren songs. The title expresses an impalpable conception which manifests itself in dense quartertone-distorted melodies and manic, almost frozen tone-repetitions. Sometimes the music becomes static screams, sometimes there is room for small naive fragments of melody.
By the end of the piece a fragment from the 'Angel-Duet' of my The Echoing Garden emerges.
Sirengesang is dedicated to Per Nørgård.
- Bent Sørensen
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