Premiered by Rever saxophone quartet at the MDW Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
May 2022

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Carousel for saxophone quartet and electronics, 2017

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2 clar, 2 sax, 2 trb, 3 perc, pno, acc, e-guit, 2 cello, 2 cb, metallic resonators & spatialization

DAIC ensemble from CNSMDP
Franck Ollu, cond.

18/03/22, Conservatoire de Paris CNSMDP
mix : J.-B. Nirascou
photo © B. Champeaux

Organum (2021-22) | 16 instruments & elec.

Waldgesang - Concerto for oboe, strings and percussion; live performance of Celine Moinet (oboe) and the Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen, conductor Ekkehard Klemm. sheet music: www.verlag-neue-musik.de

Waldgesang

Waldgesang - concerto for oboe, strings and percussion

Sutra

Written for the Crossing Choir's 2022 album "Carols After a Plague," this composition is by no means a joyful "carol," in the traditional sense. Rather, it is a contemplative work that I feel deals with the question of what exactly are we referring to when we speak of "the plague" in the context of this very critical time (the year 2020, and up to the present). Is this "plague" limited to the COVID 19 pandemic we are still experiencing? Are we only making work about this pandemic only, or (speaking for myself and for my culture) perhaps the centuries old pandemic of white supremacy in America and in Europe?

Perhaps, while listening, we shall thusly consider first the continued feeling of being confined in isolation; the despair and frustration that we experienced as a result of social distancing, and the everyday precarity of life as an artist for those who are struggling. Furthermore, we shall examine the uptick in physical and gun violence as it concerns not only racism, but sexism, homophobia, and religious fanaticism, among many other civil strifes. Not to mention the threat of eviction, the separation of migrant familes through deportation and other means, homelessness, climate change, and so on... This composition is a direct response to all of the above.

Carols after a Plague

Requiem for a Plague

Ensemble Intercontemporain

Martin Adámek – bass clarinet
Julia Sinoimeri – XAMP microtonal accordion
Aurélien Gignoux – percussion
Vincent Desille – e-guitar
Nicolò Umberto Foron – cond.

01/12/2023, Conservatoire de Paris CNSMDP
rec & mix: Lucas Bergeret

photo: B.Champeaux

Poem Code (2023) | Ensemble Intercontemporain

Meditation No.1

This is a composition I kind of lost myself in. The inspiration, as well as the title, comes from a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke titled "You Said Live".

Fractured Rings

First performed and recorded in Wells Cathedral, 18 October 2018
Jeremy Cole | organ

Preview/purchase score: www.barnabymartin.com/partials

Partials was written for organist Jeremy Cole for first performance as part of new music wells 78-18. The piece is based on the harmonic series on C and uses an accompanying tape which gradually builds up the harmonics series, starting with the lowest possible note on the organ and slowly adding all of the harmonics/partials. 

Listen to the tape part: https://soundcloud.com/barnaby-martin/partials-tape
Download the tape part: www.barnabymartin.com/partials

Partials

Gorzow Philharmonic Orchestra performing live the 7th Symphony by Beethoven under Piotr Borkowski conducting. September 2011.

L. van Beethoven - 7th Symphony 1st mov.

L. van Beethoven - 7th Symphony 2nd mov.

C. René Hirschfeld: composer.
I am writing contemporary music (chamber music , symphonic, vocal music, electronic, ballet and opera). I live as a freelance in the beautyfull little city Wernigerode in the middle of Germany.