As commented on Joseph's page, this is a masterful composition...one of the best I've heard on this site in a long time

A really great piece of music! It touched me on the raw.

Just a beautiful piece and dedication! A pleasure to listen to this.

Wow, Christopher, I just listened again thru Joseph Haspel's page. What a profound and viscerally moving piece you've written. Bravo!

I would like to thank the pianist and composer Joseph Haspel  so much for his wonderful performance of Farewell.  He has delivered a sensitive yet powerfully moving performance.  Thank you again Joe and thank you for your amazing compositions @joseph-haspel.

Joe suggested we release this work on Memorial Day.  It is a day after all that we remember, cherish and honor those fallen heroes who were once with us.  And this work was inspired by the memory of one of my heroes, my mum.  It was written many many years ago but has over time spawned many works. 

Farewell was originally part of a piano piece that I decided to orchestrate.  That work is posted here and is called Flight.  The section of Flight that this Farewell comes from also led to two versions of Farewell an Adagio for Strings and also a string quintet version too.  All of these works are listed below, but this piano only work is the original version where it all started.

As always, thank you for listening.


Farewell inspired tracks:

https://soundcloud.com/cpjl/flight
https://soundcloud.com/cpjl/farewell-an-adagio-for-strings
https://soundcloud.com/cpjl/farewell
https://soundcloud.com/cpjl/farewell-revisited-an-adagio-for-strings

Farewell performed by Joseph Haspel

Experimental, electronic soundscape by Spasmodular and VCO (Vincent Carlton Overdrive). This composition was created from field recordings, shortwave radio noise, and multiple synthesizers. 
c) 2023

Salapärane Tunnel

Marco Lucchi : mellotron and synthesizers

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"Nel Museo nazionale romano di palazzo Altemps si conserva una testa in marmo che secondo la tradizione rappresenta un’Erinni addormentata. Gli occhi chiusi, i ciuffi dei capelli scarmigliati sulla fronte e la guancia, le labbra appena dischiuse, il volto della Furia – se di una Furia si tratta, sia essa Aletto, Megera o Tisifone – riposa quieto su un cuscino di buio marmo, come se sognasse.
Una furia che invece di gemere e urlare, scuotendo la chioma serpentina, chiude gli occhi e sogna, smentisce se stessa. Eppure proprio e soltanto il sogno o il sonno di una furia assomiglia al pensiero. Il pensiero non è soltanto contemplazione, è innanzitutto furore. Si dà pensiero, si dà contemplazione, solo se prima vi è stato furore, se guardando l’abominio degli umani e del mondo, la mente – diceva Bruno – discesa «ne la parte più inferna… si sente lacerare e sbranare». E solo se nel nostro eroico furore riusciamo a chiudere gli occhi e sognare, si ha vera quiete, si ha visione e teoria. I nostri sogni non sono allora fantasie a occhi aperti, che sappiamo ingannevoli e vane, ma verità a cui, anche se con gli occhi chiusi, non possiamo non credere, perché abbiamo prima visto la vendetta e l’errore. Il pensiero è questo acquietarsi del furore, è un’Erinni che sogna."

Giorgio Agamben

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13 dicembre 2023

Furore che sogna [2]

I'm so happy that the tuning has finally completed today! ….But the F key is missing for repair now. So I was looking for some piece that can be played without the F key and found this beautiful song! Please allow me to play this masterpiece according to my own mood…

Light dance - Akira Kosemura - Piano cover

2024-01-21

Saturday Siesta

My Piano Longs For Summer

Os Resistentes

This song popped in my head tonight.01/29/2024-re-mastered. 03/16/2024.

Light from the Winter Moon Light (Original)

Five

A presultatic clerat

heck yeah

When I write music, I try to go on a journey to feel emotions, whatever they may be.  To me, music is a celebration of life; for all the pain and suffering we may endure, it is a gift to be alive. 

I hope music can take you on journeys of your own to places where you may want to be.  Thank you for listening.

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Farewell performed by Joseph Haspel

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