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

Hyachor : for soprano and alto saxophone / Wilma Pistorius

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone
Scoring: sax-s sax-a

Project IV : for saxophone quartet / Mateo Soto

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone
Scoring: sax-s sax-a sax-t sax-bar

Poème : pour quatre saxophones / Jo Sporck

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone
Scoring: 4sax

composition

Solo : for bass saxophone, 1988 / Klas Torstensson

Other authors:
Torstensson, Klas (Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): 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