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
Cartastraccia : for soprano saxophone and instrumental ensemble, 1984 / Dolf de Kinkelder
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and large ensemble
Scoring:
1210 sax 1110 mar(vibr) hp pf(cel) 2vl vla vc cb sax-s-solo
Winterconcerto : for soprano saxophone and orchestra, 1984 / Joep Straesser
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and large ensemble
Scoring:
2222 2220 3perc hp 14vl 4vla 4vc 2cb sax-s-solo
Concerto : per saxofono contralto e orchestra, 1980 / Jack Kat
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and large ensemble
Scoring:
3122 2331 2perc g-b pf sax-a-solo
composition
Licks & Brains II : 1988, saxophone quartet, large ensemble / Klas Torstensson
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