related works
L'autunno di Christina : Dramatic scene for soprano and large ensemble / Klas Torstensson
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr-solo fl/picc ob/eh cl-cl-b fg tpt h trb-t/trb-b pf 2perc 2vn vla vc db
Draaijkomeet : for tenor saxophone and ensemble / Reza Namavar
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and large ensemble
Scoring:
fl ob cl fg h trp trb perc man hp pf 2vl vla vc cb sax-t-solo
Breuker concerto : for saxophones, clarinets and 21 string players / Rob du Bois
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and large ensemble
Scoring:
8vl 5vla 4vc 4cb sax(cl)-solo
Concertino : for soprano saxophone and mandolin orchestra, 2006 / Bernard van Beurden
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and large ensemble
Scoring:
2man mandolina g cb sax-s-solo
composition
Licks & Brains II : 1988, saxophone quartet, large ensemble / Klas Torstensson
Other authors:
Torstensson, Klas
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): Licks & Brains is a triptych for saxophones. In the course of the triptych as a whole, shifts occur in the degree of closeness and in the listener's sense of proximity to the music. In Solo the inside is of primary importance. Both tone production and mechanism (action) are amplified out of all proportion, evoking the sensation of an extremely heavy and complex piece of machinery being revived into motion; the musical development comes off the ground with a great deal of struggle. With Licks & Brains I we find ourselves, as it were, within the music itself; music that develops a high level of virtuoso activity. The quartet, as the sax section in a big band, plays as a solid unit, striving to keep together and to build up to a continually more extended and refined repertory of pitch, articulation and ways of playing. In Licks & Brains II the music for quartet is presented in a new setting. The music now appears in relation to a large entity built up of several layers. The
orchestra furnishes a new musical context, at times enforcing a reinterpretation of the saxophone music. - KLAS TORSTENSSON