The Danish National Symphony Orchestra celebrates its 100th Anniversary with an international tour to some of Europe's most established concert halls with Bent Sørensen's Evening Land on the program.
After the first concerts of 2025 (January 9-10), also featuring Evening Land, the orchestra will start their tour on January 13 in Berlin at the Berlin Philharmonie. The tour will travel to Germany, Belgium, Austria and Hungary, from January 13 to 23. This will mean two country premieres for the Sørensen work, a Belgian Premiere in Antwerpen on January 17 and a Hungarian Premiere in Budapest on January 23.
Evening Land was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and received its World Premiere on November 30, 2017, with conductor Edo De Waart. The commission came by way of Per Nørgård after he received the Philharmonic’s Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music. Declining the commission that came with the award, Nørgård referred the orchestra instead to his colleague and former pupil Sørensen.
After the World Premiere, the New York Classical Review wrote:
(Evening Land) was a piece in which, with perfect dream logic, a dark landscape emerged out of a nearly-inaudible violin solo and little smears of string sound, and then Leonard Bernstein showed up, in the form of chattering maracas and explosive Latin rhythms. The Lenny-vision disappeared as suddenly as it came, as the light faded on the evening scene.
