It is my pleasure to release my latest piano composition.  Thank you for listening and I hope you enjoy.

Blue Waves

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

This piece is for Trumpet, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon.  It is in three parts.  I hope you enjoy listening.

Trumpet And Wind Ensemble - Part 1

Alessio Ferrante
ANTAR for bass clarinet and electronics (2013)

Roberta Gottardi, bass clarinet

Recorded on 19 September 2013 at MUSEION, Bolzano (Italy)

"Wandering am I in the Bardo; run to my rescue; Uphold me by thy grace, O Precious Tutelary!"
Tibetan Book of the Dead

Antar

L'ULTIMO ORIZZONTE - rituale per l'Infinito (2019)

Miyamoto Yasuko, percussion

Recorded on 20 December 2020 at the Kusatsu Amica Hall, Shiga (Japan) as part of the Online Festival "generations - riverside of time" 2020.

L'Ultimo Orizzonte - rituale per l'Infinito

LUX pour orgue de chœur & 8 voix (2021)

Ensemble vocal Sequenza 9.3, Catherine Simonpietri (d)
Alma Bettencourt, choir organ

Recorded on November 2021 at the Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris, as part of the #SaintSulpice2021 composition competition organized by AROSS. 

Lux for choir organ and 8 voices is a meditation on light. It’s not the light that illuminates the material world, but the eternal light that is the universal symbol of divinity, for which the soul yearns. It’s the light that, together with sound, is the basis of the creation of universe in many cosmogonies, including the biblical one. It’s the Light-Sound which is emanation of God.
The text sung by the choir is taken from Antiphona ad communionem of the Catholic Requiem Mass. The sound of the words of Lux aeterna blends with the sound of organ in an atmosphere of calm and mysticism.

Alessio Ferrante
KYIL-KHOR IV - A Sonic Mandala (2022)

Acousmatic music

Painting: 17th century Tibetan 'Five Deity Mandala'

KYIL-KHOR IV - A Sonic Mandala

Commission: Piediluco in musica with Raitrade
Publisher score: Rai Trade (2003)
Registration made for the 3rd issue of SuonoSonda magazine. Luca Sanzò, viola

Carla Magnan: Amor dov'è la fe', for viola

This is a new version of a piece that has had a long histroy and means a great deal to me too.  It is taken from a much longer orchestrated piece called Flight which is posted.  If any of my pieces are autobiographic Flight is that piece and, if it is about me, it is the journey of me growing up and coming to America only to discover that we can not run-away from our past.  The adagio section (which is just orchestrated for string orchestra in this version) represents the mourning of the untimely loss of my beautiful mum.  It occurred just as my first child had been born in the States.  I dedicate this work to her.

I would also like to share Mariza Costa-Cabral comment at 6:09 as I think she has described it the best "Beautiful. It seems to be a person overwhelmed with emotion, as when they lose one of their most beloved and important persons in life. Painful and poignant. Of course, it is impossible to represent this kind of pain without beauty, because the pain is all about the beauty and the precious value of what is lost. And it is in fact a piece filled with beauty."

Thank you again Mariza so much.  Your comment goes beyond music.

As always, I hope you enjoy.

P.S. Please let me know if anyone is interested in performing this work, the score is available.

Farewell Revisited - An Adagio for Strings (Score available)

Extract from "Pelle II", for four percussionists.
World premiere November 13, 2019 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bolzano on the occasion of the 45 contemporary music festival.
Performed by the conTakt group.
Taken from the poem by G. Rodari, Pelle.

for the full track contact:
gigammino@gmail.com

Pelle II [excerpt] for four percussionists

Dreamless (2014/15) for chamber ensemble – live performing by Ensemble “Sonorous” – Barcelona / Spain 2015 (unfortunately ensemble no longer exists) 
….When I was in Barcelona/Spain for a short time a met a enthusiastic group of professional street musicians who asked me to write them several arrangements (free of charge) to be played… to show their gratitude afterwards they asked me to write a piece for their performances at contemporary music venues giving me all rights to this piece …unfortunately they no longer exist as an ensemble…. Dear friends hope you are doing well!!!

Dreamless was inspired by the song of Henry Charles Bukowski - Dreamless 
All rights reserved by Predrag Pedja Milojkovic®

Bez snova

Stare sjedokose kelnerice
po kafeima u noći
odustale su,
i dok koračam
niz pločnike svjetlosti
i gledam u prozore
staračkih domova
vidim da toga više nema
u njima.
Gledam ljude po klupama u parku
i vidim po tome kako
sjede i gledaju
da je iščezlo.
Gledam ljude koji voze
i vidim po tome kako
voze svoja kola
da niti vole niti su voljeni
niti više mare za seks
sve je zaboravljeno kao
neki stari film.
Gledam ljude u robnim kućama
i samoposlugama
dok se kreću među rafovima
kupujući stvari
i vidim po tome
kako im stoji odjeća
i po načinu na koji hodaju
i po izrazu njihovih lica
i očiju
da im nije stalo ni do čega
i da ničemu nije stalo
do njih.
Vidim na stotine ljudi dnevno
koji su sasvim odustali.
Ako odem na hipodrom
ili na stadion
vidim hiljade
koji ne osjećaju ništa
ni za koga
i niko ne osjeća za njih.
Na sve strane vidim one koji
ne žude ni za čim osim za
hranom, krovom i
odjećom,
usredsređeni samo na to,
BEZ SNOVA.
Ne shvatam zašto ovi ljudi
ne iščeznu,
ne shvatam zašto ovi ljudi
ne izdahnu,
zašto ih oblaci
ne usmrte,
zašto ih psi
ne usmrte,
zašto ih cvjetovi i djeca
ne usmrte,
ne shvatam.
Biće da su već mrtvi
pa ipak ne mogu da se naviknem
na njihovo postojanje,
jer toliko ih je mnogo.
Svakoga dana,
svake noći,
sve ih je više,
u metrou,
u zgradama,
u parkovima.
Oni ne osjećaju užas
što ne vole
ili što nisu voljeni.
Toliko, toliko, toliko
mojih bližnjih.

Čarls Bukovski

Dreamless (2014/15) for chamber ensemble – live performing

Teacher and Composer

Born in Palermo in 1983, Giuseppe Gammino attended at the Conservatory of Music “V. Bellini” of Palermo, where got a bachelor degree in violin. He attended at the University of Palermo, where he  got his master degree (laurea magistrale) in musicology under the guidance of Massimo Privitera. He played in a lots of orchestras, he collaborates with the press area of the Massimo Theatre of Palermo and the press area of “Musicheria Magazine On-Line”. He attended at the music composition degree course at the Conservatory of Music “C. Monteverdi” of Bolzano, under the guidance of Heinrich Unterhofer. In 2013 his composition Quasi un divertimento for violin and flute, received several praises and positive remarks, at the musical contest Un “divertimento” per la convivenza, organized by the Collegium Musicum of Bolzano. His composition per aspera Ad Astra (2013) for bass clarinet, viola and live electronics, was performed at the Museion, Museum of modern and contemporary art of Bolzano; while the piece Connection failed was performed in November 2014 at the 40th Contemporary Music Festival. In 2016 he was selected among the best three composers as part of the "Residence for Composers" project, organized by the Municipality of Salorno and the "C. Monteverdi ”in Bolzano at the“ Sculpture garden ”of Pochi di Salorno. In July 2016, the piece Siddhartha I was ranked second from the competition organized by the Südtiroler Künstlerbund (SKB) in the context of “Settimane Mahleriane di Dobbiaco”. In 2019 the contemporary music festival of Bolzano commissioned him a piece, Pelle II, performed by the percussionist quartet conTakt on 11/13/2019.

Pelle II [excerpt] for four percussionists

Giuseppe Gammino

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