composer
The composer Klas Torstensson has lived and worked most of his adult life in the Netherlands, but his music crosses borders – in all respects. Despite the abstract nature of ...
related works
Elliott loves bebop : for two instrumental quartets / Klas Torstensson
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
sax-a trb gtr perc vln vc pf perc
Cyclofonie IX : soloslagwerker, orkest, 1974 / Hans Kox
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Percussion and large ensemble
Scoring:
2fl ob cl cl-b sax-a 2h 2trp 2trb hp g 2pf el.org acc 6vl 3vc 3cb perc-solo
Percussion concerto : for solo percussion and large ensemble / Joey Roukens, 2011
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Percussion and large ensemble
Scoring:
fl fl(pic) 2cl fg 2h trp trb pf(cel) perc 4vl 3vla 2vc 2cb perc-solo
Canzona : for percussion solo, two wind quintets and double bassoon, 1989 / Gijs van Dijk
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Percussion and large ensemble
Scoring:
2223 2000 perc-solo
composition
Self-portrait with percussion : (Lantern lectures, volume V), for percussion solo and large ensemble, 2006, Volume V / Klas Torstensson
Contains:
Procession I
Aquarelle
Woodpecker
Procession II
Almglocken
Kretsande (revolving)
Bowed vowels
Procession III
Pulse
Description:
Program note (English): [Premiere: May 5, 2006 - Witten, Germany - Peppie Wiersma, Asko Ensemble cond. Hans Leenders (Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik)] - As the composer Edgar Varèse stated already in 1930: "Notre temps est percutant" (our time is percussive). For a composer who grew up in the fiftees and sixtees of the last century, my childhood was indeed extremely percussive: The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa with his Mothers of Invention, later on Varèse, Xenakis... In 'Self-portrait with percussion' I deal with percussion in many of its manifestations in my life. - KLAS TORSENSSON