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- Bent Sørensen
Fuggitivo (2022)
- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
Commissioned by Ensemble MidtVest
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- 9 min
- 23rd March 2025, Syddansk Musikkonservatorium, Esbjerg, Denmark
Programme Note
When it comes to titles, almost all the works I have composed have found their title before or at the same moment I started them. That is why it was also surprising - not to say transgressive - for me that my work for 9 instruments for Ensemble MidtVest was completely untitled until the last bar. Then it dawned on me that the titlelessness was a natural result of the music's volatility. It was – and is – as if the music was constantly escaping from itself. The beginning of the work is definitely an escape into a new chapter, and that feeling runs through the entire work.
In a longer section, the music flies towards a Barcarole, where the piano has a soloist role, and this is probably a result of my recurring dream of Venice – the gondolas in the swaying rhythms of the canals. Hence the Italian title, "Fuggitivo" - fugitive.
The work was composed for and commissioned by Ensemble MidtVest with support from the Danish Arts Foundation.
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