Steve Martland

Exhilarating and celebratory, the rhythmic demands of Dance Works as well as its physical nature are closer to rock, jazz and even medieval music. Dance works was written specifically for dance theatr...

Sea Songs, commissioned jointly by Ars Nova Copenhagen and Glasgow Concert Halls, is a kind of sequel to Martland's Street Songs (originally written for the Kings Singers and Evelyn Glennie). As with...

A virtuoso work for an increasingly popular instrumental combination, the title (after Van Gogh's visionary painting The Starry Night) gives a sense of the intensity of this music. Personal memories o...

A virtuoso work for an increasingly popular instrumental combination, the title (after Van Gogh's visionary painting The Starry Night) gives a sense of the intensity of this music. Personal memories o...

Flöte (Piccolo), 3 Saxophone (Alt, Tenor, Bariton), 3 Trompeten in C, 2 Posaunen, Bass Posaune, Horn in F, Klavier (oder Syntesizer), Bass Gitarre

3 Saxophone (ATB), Trompete (B), Posaune, Klavier, Marimbaphon, Schlagzeug, Violine, E-Gitarre, Bass-Gitarre.

3 Saxophone (STB), Flügelhorn, Posaune, Klavier, Schlagzeug, Violine, E-Gitarre, Bass-Gitarre

3 Saxophone (STBar), Trompete, Posaune, Klavier, Marimba, Schlagzeug, Violine, E-Gitarre und Bass-Gitarre).

3 Saxophone (ATB), Flügelhorn, Posaune, Klavier, Schlagzeug, Violine, E-Gitarre und Bass-Gitarre.

This is dancing music. The use of a ground bass suggests formal Baroque models but the shifted beats and polyrhythms also evoke Latin American, and near the end, 'techno' dance music.