Beginning with the intimate, subdued sounds of the solo piano cycle "12 Nocturnes", a night music that extends from sunset to sunrise, and continuing with the Piano Concerto no. 3, "La sera estatica" - an ecstatic evening touched by the fleeting magic of twilight, where new encounters and possibilities quietly awaken, recorded live at its world premiere by the Copenhagen Phil under John Storgårds - this album immerses the listener in Bent Sørensen's (b. 1958) deep love of the piano and his extraordinary poetic imagination. For many years, Bent Sørensen had difficulty composing for the piano. Through his encounters with the two pianists Leif Ove Andsnes and Katrine Gislinge, he finally found his vocation as a composer. This resulted in a series of original works for piano, which together form a unique dramaturgy. For Sørensen and his wife Katrine Gislinge, the time of the Covid pandemic was a time of freedom. In the evenings, Gislinge often gave a mini-concert with some of the pieces she had been practicing. The piano music at home when darkness fell could take on an ecstatic character. Fragments of this music live on in La sera estatica (The Ecstatic Evening). Both La sera estatica and the 12 Nocturnes are inspired by the magical forces that can operate in the twilight and the night that follows - a quieter world in which the imagination has free rein. The 12 Nocturnes for solo piano are a collection of short pieces of great expressive power. It is wonderfully atmospheric music with a vibrant, magical sound reminiscent of the stars at night - the classical nocturne, reinterpreted in the 21st century.