Score Chamber Ensemble
SKU: HL.14030975
For Chamber Ensemble
Score. Composed by
Bent Sorensen. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Score. Composed 2002. 132
pages. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #WH30141.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14030975).
ISBN
9788759860199.
Work
for Chamber Ensemble
dating from 1989. The
composer writes: The
Title SHADOWLAND refers
on the one hand to a
blurred 'Landscape' of
shadows, where small
shadows are formed behind
other shadows, and where
the outlines are
constantly
disintegrating. On the
other hand, the title
refers to the fanciful
and unreal landscapes I
felt in the music while I
was writing it.
SHADOWLAND has four
movements, with
proportions 4-7-4-3.
These proportions can be
found on various levels,
from the smallest cell to
the largest form. The
first movement is divided
into four parts which
have exactly the same
proportions as the whole
pjece, and behind the
fastrunning melodies and
trills that dominate the
whole movement one can
hear, in the second,
third, and fourth parts,
anticipations of the
second, third and fourth
movements respectively.
The second movement
begins at the edge of
silence with almost
unperceptible glissandi
and indistinct chorales.
Gradually the hushed
landscape is drowned out
by sudden expressive
melodic outbursts and
ends with violent dance
rhythms. The third
movement is built up of
clouds of staccato tones
and is a further
development of the
pointillistic ideas from
CLAIROBSCUR. In th last
movement the horn plays a
long soloistic melody
line which the other
instruments imitate and
echo. These echoes swamp
the horn line from time
to time. SHADOWLAND was
commissioned by and
dedicated to The London
Sinfonietta.