Steve Martland

With Wolf-Gang, the British composer Steve Martland, ironizingly, follows the 18-century tradition of wind music ensembles with which underpaid musicians made some money on the side. Martland arranged...

Martland arrangia musiche di Purcell per quartetto di tromboni: insolito, fantasioso e bellissimo, trasporta la musica barocca nel presente con Fantazia 7.

Martland gioca argutamente con il basso contro l'alto, con il bluff e i contributi grintosi del sax basso che definiscono la trama. Rian Evans, recensione del Guardian (prima mondiale).

Fantazia 6 per quartetto di sassofoni, pubblicato insieme all'arrangiamento di Martland di Fantazia 7 di Purcell per quartetto di tromboni, fa parte di una lunga serie di arrangiamenti insolitamente f...

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...

Originally scored for ensemble (10 players), Mr Anderson's Pavane was written in response to the death of the British film and theatre director Lindsay Anderson whom I knew. Although composed without...

Skywalk - an astronaut describes his feelings as he walks in space and looks at his planet, Earth, in all its beauty. Steve Martland sets the text to music that is weightless, luminous, incantatory.

One of Martland's most popular works, often broadcast on BBC Radio 3, this brilliant and joyful piece culminates in a full-throttled version of the famous 'Sumer is i-cumen in'.

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...

With Wolf-Gang, the British composer Steve Martland, ironizingly, follows the 18-century tradition of wind music ensembles with which underpaid musicians made some money on the side. Martland arranged...

Van Gogh's visionary painting The Starry Night provides the title, if not the stimulus, for this music. Rather, personal memories of Africa are recalled and in particular the sound of music and dancin...

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...

Esilarante e celebrativa, la richiesta ritmica di Dance Works e la sua natura fisica si avvicinano al rock, al jazz e persino alla musica medievale. "Dance Works" è stata scritta appositamente per il...

With Wolf-Gang, the British composer Steve Martland, ironizingly, follows the 18-century tradition of wind music ensembles with which underpaid musicians made some money on the side. Martland arranged...

Martland arrangia musiche di Purcell per quartetto di tromboni: insolito, fantasioso e bello, trasporta la musica barocca nel presente con Fantazia 7.

Martland gioca argutamente con il basso contro l'alto, con il bluff e i contributi grintosi del sax basso che definiscono la trama. Rian Evans, recensione del Guardian (prima mondiale).

Fantazia 6 per quartetto di sassofoni, pubblicato insieme all'arrangiamento di Martland di Fantazia 7 di Purcell per quartetto di tromboni, fa parte di una lunga serie di arrangiamenti insolitamente f...