Orchestre Symphonique Centre-Tours/ Ensemble Cairn (Cedric Jullion, flute / Ayumi Mori, clarinet/ Vincent David, sopr. saxophone, Christelle Séry. electric guitar)
Golo Berg, conductor / Festival "Les Traversées", Abbaye de Noirlac

commissioned by Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt;
premiered by Staatskapelle Halle/ Ensemble Cairn/ Golo Berg

Jan Masanetz: DRIFT for ensemble and orchestra (2012)

Freefalling is a work for orchestra inspired by Felix Baumgartner's record breaking freefall jump from space in which he broke the speed of sound as he fell to Earth. It is performed here by the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland.

Freefalling (live version) - National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland

for guitar and cello

Christelle Séry (guitar)
Frédéric Baldassare (cello)

Dog eat dog (guitar and cello)

Wanderlust (2009) [orchestra]: Mvt 1. Prevailing Winds

Claudia Barainsky, Stimme;
Sebastian Manz, Bassklarinette
Axel Bauni, Klavier

Acht Schwarze Lieder nebst einer Moritat

For flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin and cello

Interruptus I

This was my first composition commission.

WP 13 February 2007, at "Aikamme Kamarimusiikkia" festival in Helsinki.
Parkour (BE/FI): Saara Rautio (hp), Matthias Koole (guit), Kobe Van Cauwenberghe (guit)

Urban street acrobacy, parkour (from the French word parcours, meaning 'route', or 'trespass') aims for smooth and even movement across the obstacles provided by our everyday city life: jump on the fence, to the wall, on the eaves, back to the ground… The environment is thus seen and rethought in a new way; one is able to move from place A directly to place C.

Similar smoothness and continuous variability in the musical space was something that I aimed for, of which this trio for two guitars and harp is the first essay. The work evolves though transformations from one register to another, across the timbral palette, over the border between tone and noise, through different harmonic worlds. At times a single interval transforms into rhythm, at times it gives birth to a third tone. Speed also differs from hectic fastness to dizzying stillness, since 'parkour musical' is by no means chained by planetal gravity.

Trio parkour is commissioned by Saara Rautio, Kobe Van Cauwenberghe and Matthias Koole, funded by the Sibelius Foundation.

© 2006 Jarkko Hartikainen

Trio parkour (2006) for two guitars and harp

Andrew Norman - Try (excerpt)

(Drei Lieder nach Gedichten von Walt Whitman)
Composed by Anno Schreier

Live recording of World Premiere
<a href="http://www.staatstheater.karlsruhe.de/programm/info/1423/">Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe 27.10.2012</a>

Andrew Finden - baritone
John Parr - piano



II. Aboard at a ship's helm

Destroy, Trample, as Swiftly as She. Commissioned for the European Brass Band Championships, performed by the Tredegar Town Band.

Destroy, Trample, as Swiftly as She - Tredegar Town Band

www.jan-masanetz.de
Leipzig -based composer JM
studied composition with Manfred Trojahn and Wolfgang Rihm.