- The Norwegian Soloists’ Choir, Grete Pedersen, Ensemble Allegria: “Bent Sørensen: ‘St Matthew Passion’” (BIS)
- Lydia Teuscher, Slovenian Philharmonic Choir, Munich Radio Orchestra, Ivan Repušić, et. al.: “Damian Močnik: ‘Johannes Passion’” (BR Klassik)
- Berit Norbakken, Århus Sinfonietta, Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis, Hörður Áskelsson: “Hugi Gudmundsson: ‘The Gospel of Mary’” (Dacapo)
“When you reach a certain age, you become aware, as a composer, that you will not be able to compose it all, that there is a limit,” writes Bent Sørensen. In 2014, at the relatively spry age of 56, Sørensen decided that the one work he wanted to compose beyond anything else was a St. Matthew Passion. Without telling anyone who could possibly commission such a work, he decided that “everything I was going to compose from then on was going to lead me to a St. Matthew Passion.”