Saint Mark Passion / complete work

Songs

Music composed by John Ireland  
recorded 3/29/21  Joseph Haspel organist

My Song is Love Unknown

Thank you Christopher for composing 'Farewell' and for entrusting its performance to me - Joe

Remembering my Father this Memorial Day - who passed away in 2019 at the age of 101 - he was a World War 2 veteran - a member of a bombing crew that flew 25 missions over Germany targeting munitions factories - I am lucky to be here - through 'Farewell' I remember.

Farewell, by Christopher Larkins - performed by Joseph Haspel

Symphony 2 - version for 2 pianos

Martin Luther 1529

Recorded 3/17/22  
Joseph Haspel Organist

A Mighty Fortress Is Our God

Chopin - Prelude opus 28 number 20

Saint Mark Passion part 4a / And They Crucified Him

Recorded Spring 2022
Joseph Haspel Organist

Herzlich lieb hab' Ich dich, o Herr    J. S. Bach

Lamentation - version for string orchestra

Mark 15: 24-37

Jesus hangs on the cross - is maliciously mocked by many of the people gathered there - his last words and death - postlude

Saint Mark Passion part 4b, conclusion of work -

Saint Mark Passion - part 4, complete

Piece for Orchestra - Going/Lingering

A little side trip for me, I think - trying out the Vocaloid6 software - a setting of a recent poem of mine which seemed suited to these nice pop voices - thanks to Ramon Capsada Blanch for making me aware of the software - 

The Poem

Sclerosis

Scler-o-o-o-o-o-sis
The end
       Of symbiosis
The sweetness
        Can't get up there
It's all mixed in with the disrepair

When the bright one comes along
Like a gong 
                 Ablare
Those sad striations at best
A little tremble feel
Would rock that junk
                            Rock that junk
                                              Unconceal!

But
Too hard
Too hard
       Bye bye
       Bye bye

Sclerosis

Quartet For 2 Pianos ( after String Quartet 2 )

Imagination
Must have its recreation
But where will has brought nothing to crystal
And reigns within only tumble and mush
Conspiracies pimps do business

Whole - Ok - But Not All In The Day - part 1

A version of the prayer Christ taught his disciples - 

The voices are from East/West Hollywood Choirs

Our Father

Being's mystery
Becoming - how?
Vision of beauty
Dark interstices
Will - articulation of being - hierarchy
Redemptive spaces
Creation

Image - Claude Monet - Tree in Flower near Vetheuil (1879)

Whole - Ok - But Not All In The Day - part 2

A very short piece, composed for use in our church service.
Image - a detail of a painting by Kevin Laverty - https://www.kevinlaverty.com/

Christ Has Died, Christ Is Risen, Christ Will Come Again

This work actually was first a piano sonata composed over a period of 3-4 years, begun sometime in 2000-2001. I came to feel it would work better as a concerto - it was extremely difficult as a sonata so i thought it best to divvy up the work - more importantly perhaps, the musical conversation/narrative could be made much more vivid through the use of the orchestra. The transformation from sonata to concerto was done i believe in 2009, and this realization ( a joy for me to finally hear it well 'performed' ! ) was done over the past 4 months.

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra( entire/parts 1 -3 )

This work was essentially composed in 1999-2000 with some revisions in 2006. I'm pleased to present it for the first time, here in this virtual performance made using Apple's Logic software and the wonderful East/West Hollywood Orchestra samples. 

Symphony 2

A song, a setting of a poem of mine. In this version the violin stands in for the singer. Made using East/West's Quantum Leap Pianos/Bechstein,
and the solo violin from EW Symphonic Orchestra.

The poem

          
                           
                             Sadness Keen

                             Sadness Keen's
                             Dun gleam
                             Sconced safe
                             In smiles standing
                             Wiles terrene

                             Avatar
                             Light leading
                             Soul's pleading
                             To ruby seeding

Sadness Keen

A setting of a poem of mine from around 2008 - here the singer is represented by a virtual violin - the solo violin from East/West Symphonic Orchestra. ( i'd welcome a message from a singer interested in performing/recording this song ) 


The Poem

Out on the Bridge

Out on the bridge
Above where the water's load 
Shatters
On the hunkered trestle

Below the white rage of the crashpoint
Generative
Quick cooling
To a fervent complexity
Of sparks and whorls

This out ahead
Slow
Unburning
Into the living sleep of river

Out on the Bridge

Performed by Joseph Haspel on the St. Eucaire Cavaille-Coll virtual pipe organ.

Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings / arranged for organ by William Strickland

Joseph Haspel organist

One of Brahms last compositions and the grandest of the set of chorale preludes opus 122. Translation - 'My Jesus, who has called me'. Performed and recorded in August of 2016.

Mein Jesu, der du mich, number 1 from 11 Chorale Preludes opus 122 by Johannes Brahms

Another poem setting, from around 2008 - i think of it as one of a set of three songs that includes 'Out on the Bridge' and 'Sadness Keen', both  posted earlier here at Soundcloud. In this version Embertone's Friedlander Violin takes the singer's part - the piano is East/West's Steinway D.

The Poem

The Hidden Grove

All are young here
Where the woods gapes wide for the sun
The fulgent pour bounding mica through their hair

Long we've come
Through bristled gloom
From a manic, smirched, motely
To this luminance
This green glee

We descend from out the tangle
Down among the sapling founts

Mingle long

      Drink

           Become

Leaving we pray
                     We stay

The Hidden Grove

Part 2 of my Saint Mark Passion - the composition was done a few years ago, the virtual performance over the last 5-6 months - the vp was very time consuming, as I struggled to get a natural, beautiful enunciation from the East/West Hollywood Choirs - not always with full success, but about the best i can do for now. I'll return now to part 1 of this work, the orchestral part of which was posted here last fall, and add the choirs - hopefully the process will get easier with time and practice! 

Hope you like this work.
Thanks for listening.

Joe

Saint Mark Passion Part 2 - Jesus before the Sanhedrin/Peter's denial

A much more complete version of this work - the orchestral part was posted last fall - now the choirs have been added and the solo parts are represented by instruments. The part of Jesus is extensive in this part of the passion - his voice is for the most part represented by the oboe except for a few sections where the orchestration is very full and the playing very loud - in these sections the trumpet is used. The other vocal solo parts are both very short - Peter is represented by a solo cello and Judas by a flute.

Hope you enjoy
Thanks for listening

Joe

Saint Mark Passion part 1 / Gethsemane    (updated with choral/vocal parts)

A song, a setting of an original poem, composed in 2009 - vocal part in this version 'performed' by the solo trumpet from the East/West Hollywood Orchestra accompanied by Embertone's Walker Steinway.

The Poem

Transition Bright

In the woods
A great tree fallen
Yet upheld
In another's V
Its green glow all given
To the earth's just allocating.

Above the woods top's electric purl
Eager round a fresh opened way 
Of ardent blue.


Hope you enjoy - thanks for listening.

Transition Bright

Recorded July 2019

1. Meinen Jesum laf ich nicht
2. Jesu, meiner Seelen Wonne
3. Was frag' ich nach der Welt

3 Chorales of J.S. Bach

Part 3 of my work in progress 'Saint Mark Passion' - for chorus, orchestra and soloists - in this version of part 3 Pilate is represented by the bassoon - Jesus's one line by the oboe. The text is Mark 15/1-15. 

Thanks for listening.

( Thanks Eau Claire, Wisconsin, for 156 plays and counting - it sure would be nice to have a few words from you. )

Saint Mark Passion part 3 / Jesus Before Pilate - "Crucify Him!"

Iste Confessor / Thomas Tallis 1520 - 1585 / softer registration

The Light
Ever soaring - ever sounding
Ever by
Implicate ever in the unending wrestle
Hard set, even to its murderer, to give
Throttled down - killed
Uplifting - transmuting

Oh - how it would dance

Duo - for Violin and Piano

A little poem from years ago, finally set to music, though as yet only "sung" by the Violin - thanks for listening.

Idolater's Spate

Idolater's spate
Raises hate
Within flies a glory
Confounds
Uncompletes
Idolater's sweets

Thus unmasked
The pass kindly casts

poem and music Joseph Haspel

Idolater's Spate

Piano Improvisation 7

Anyone interested in performing/recording any of the works posted here please send me a message.

Joe

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