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- Bent Sørensen
The Wings of Night (1997)
- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
Programme Note
I do not yet know what to write about this short piece which I have just finished.
But like my Piano Concerto La Notte, it seems to take place at night-time - or perhaps it is only because I wrote the piece by night.
In short, the title is from Shakespeare’s ’Romeo and Juliet’.
Juliet sings to the night - the night of love:
’Come, night; come Romeo; come, thou day in night;
For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
Whither than new snow upon a raven’s back.
The Wings of the Night was composed as a commission from the Warsaw Autumn for Christian Lindberg and the Silesian String Quartet.
- Bent Sørensen
But like my Piano Concerto La Notte, it seems to take place at night-time - or perhaps it is only because I wrote the piece by night.
In short, the title is from Shakespeare’s ’Romeo and Juliet’.
Juliet sings to the night - the night of love:
’Come, night; come Romeo; come, thou day in night;
For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
Whither than new snow upon a raven’s back.
The Wings of the Night was composed as a commission from the Warsaw Autumn for Christian Lindberg and the Silesian String Quartet.
- Bent Sørensen