Tonight's Hear & Now is a portrait of the Danish composer, Bent Sørensen.

I've enjoyed some of what I've heard from this composer in the past but found some of it boring and predictable.

There's quite a long article on his music on his publisher's website.
His wikipedia entry is very short but possibly worth a read.

The recording was made at the 2007 Bergen festival by the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and the Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen.

I'll be interested to read what you think of this potentially very interesting broadcast!

I'm recording it while I catch up on tonight's rugby, as I was out at a concert this evening. Don't anyone dare tell me the result!

I had it on throughout the house while I was doing a load of housework (a ton of washing-up and some organising).
I liked a lot of it, but it all seemed a bit samey after a while and I felt that he could go a lot further with what he's doing without worrying too much about alienating his audience.
I'll listen again and come back with something a little more intelligent in due course (well, I can hope can't I?).

What you heard at Huddersfield sounds very similar to the second section of Saturday's broadcast which lost my attention part way through but then late night Saturday isn't the best time for concentration.

I enjoyed the orchestral premiere. When I read about his interest in decay in music I wondered if it would resemble some of Silvestrov's ideas ( he says as if he knows what he's talking about ) but I didn't hear any close connections.

Don't want to sound as if I am more knowledgeable than I am ! But when I read the snippet on Sorensen before hearing the broadcast, I was reminded of these booklet notes from a disk I have of Metamusik and Postludium by Silvestrov.

"Both pieces begin with a sort of Big Bang, a forte explosion as jolting as a rock crashing into water and churning up the liquid element over an extensive area for a prolonged period. It is almost as if the initial shock were enough to generate energy for an entire twenty minute ( Postludium ) or even fifty minute ( Metamusik ) piece. The original event is followed by an ebbing away into eternity, a never ending reverberation. This could be read as a very precise fulfilment of the principle of the postlude as a vast echo of a single abruptly occuring sound.  In the aftermath, immense potential for excitement makes itself felt and, above all in later piano phases, there are also quotation like evocations of tonal music or children's songs transformed by memory. The dynamics of subsidence common to both works leads ever further into silence - a sensitive pacification vulnerable to the merest whisper, gradually awakening the impression of emptiness submerging itself in the unconscious."     

Part of notes by Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich