composer

Torstensson, Klas

Klas Torstensson was born on January 16, 1951, in Nässjö, Sweden. Education Klas Torstensson studied composition at the Ingesunds Musikhögskola (Sweden), musicology at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), and electronic music at ...

related works

Miniatures : for bass clarinet / Initiated and edited by Fie Schouten

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Clarinet
Instruments: cl-b

Chimaera : for bass clarinet and stereophonic magnetic tape, (1974) / Enrique Raxach

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Clarinet; Electronics with different instruments; Clarinet with electronics
Instruments: cl-b tape

Calling : from the Miniatures for bass clarinet (edited by Fie Schouten) / Calliope Tsoupaki

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Clarinet
Instruments: cl-b

Divertimento : for four clarinets and bass clarinet / Julius Hijman

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Clarinet
Instruments: 4cl cl-b

composition

Spans : bass clarinet solo, 1981 / Klas Torstensson

Description:
Program note (English): The title refers to the extended radius of action of the bass clarinet within the piece (repertoires of articulation, motion, gestures), and to the uses of spectra: through varying the embouchure (lip pressure etc.) 'natural' harmonics are gradually added to the 'normal' tone, resulting in spectra of an exactly prescribed ambit (width). There is also an extended version, Spans/Spännvidder, for bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet and two percussionists; the bass clarinet part is identical for both versions. - KLAS TORSTENSSON