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
Miniatures : for bass clarinet / Initiated and edited by Fie Schouten
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Clarinet
Scoring:
cl-b
Concerto for vibraphone, marimbaphone & chamber orchestra : 1987 / Benjamin Ashkenazy
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Percussion and large ensemble
Scoring:
1111 sax 1111 perc pf acc 2vl vla vc cb / str vibr-mar-solo
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
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