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
	
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
	
ShhBang : for alto saxophone and ensemble, 1996 / Chiel Meijering
	
			Genre: 
		
		Orchestra
	
			Subgenre: 
		
		Saxophone and large ensemble
	
			Scoring: 
		
		0100 3sax 0220 2perc el.g g-b pf(ampl.) org/synth sax-a-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
			
					
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									Torstensson, Klas
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							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