Matthias Petzold -  composition, tenor- and soprano saxophone, cello
Thiemo Kirberg - guitar
Nils Imhorst -  double bass

1. Die Sonne des Glaubens
2. Das Bittere und das Süße
3. San Damiano - Baue auf, was zerfällt
4. Portiuncula - Der Geist des Anfangens
5. Franz und Klara - Zwei Linien
6. Vogelpredigt
7. Der Wolf von Gubbio
8. Alverna
9. Il Canto die Sole
10. Transitus
 

Reviews:

“Against all expectations, the music was not quiet and meditative, a light swing flowed through the hall, when the trio began to play... A multicoloured spectrum, in which the musicians never lost the relation to the mainstream of jazz.”
(Kölnische Rundschau)

“The serene and cheerful sounds expressed the poor but spiritually rich life of the founder of the franciscan order. Impressing was the spontaneous interplay between the musicians.” (Kölner Stadtanzeiger)

About the Compositions:

The “Franziskusinventionen” are a series of compositions, in which the composer Matthias Petzold refers to stories from the life of St. Francis of Assisi. Each composition is connected to a text, that presents the story. The composition doesn´t try to retell the story with musical means, as a kind of program music, but tries to catch the specific mood, rhythm or, as St. Francis might have called it: the ”scent” of the incident, and brings it to sound as a whole. There are composition titles like: “Portiuncula - the Spirit of Beginning”, “San Damiano - Build up what is falling into Ruins”, “Bird Sermon”.

The personal connection from the composer to this subject comes from his membership in the third order (lay community) of the franciscan family. For him, the creativity and spontneity, that comes from St. Francis has a special connection to an improvised music, as it happens in Jazz.

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