Bent Sørensen’s quietly spoken universe incorporates loneliness, nostalgia and a feeling of loss and leave leave-taking. Of the works on this album, his triple concerto, L’Isola della Città (2015), has a purity that makes it one of the composer’s most immediate and gripping orchestral works. His dramatic Second Symphony (2019) dives into the resonance of music’s classical history, where every sound is considered with the greatest care and refinement.

This album presents the world-premiere recording of Bent Sørensen’s Grawemeyer Award-winning triple concert L’Isola della Città, written for Trio con Brio Copenhagen.

Bent Sørensen wrote L’Isola della Città when he lived in the centre of Copenhagen, in the only apartment on that street to have a balcony: ‘when I went out onto the balcony it was like standing on island’.

‘The island in the city’ also refers to the relationship between the trio, whose three members are fused together into one solist that is surrounded and almost absorbed by the orchestra.

The album also presents the world-premiere recording Sørensen’s Second Symphony , a ‘classic’ symphony in five movements.

The Second Symphony dives into the resonance of music’s history: the imagination showers itself in melodies , sounds and structures while at the same time, rationality is watching from the outside.

In Sørensen’s music, the very sound has been considered with the greatest care and refinement. ‘If silence must be spoiled, it must be done well,’ says Sørensen himself, ‘for what is better than silence silence?’