Archive for Stephen Paulus
Reference Recordings Featured In Pacifica Tribune
Thanks to the Pacifica Tribune for the recent feature for RR, True Concord Voices & Orchestra and Stephen Paulus after the recent GRAMMY win for Paulus’s Prayers & Remembrances: This record is not Reference Recordings first Grammy (they received a Grammy in both 2011 and 2004), and it was not their first walk down the red carpet. This year’s Grammys were hosted at Staples Center in Los Angeles and the Reference Recording team, all dressed…
Five Stars for Far In the Heavens from Audiophile Audition
True Concord Voices and Orchestra’s Far In The Heavens: Choral Works of Stephen Paulus gets a five-star rating from Audiophile Audition’s Steven Ritter: “I had just finished reviewing this disc when the news came that it had garnered two 2016 Grammy Awards (Nominations), for Best Classical Compendium and Best Classical Composition (Prayers and Remembrances). Often the Grammys, and certainly the Pulitzers, get things horribly wrong, but I must say that this recording, possessing a virginal…
Stephen Paulus Prayers and Remembrances wins GRAMMY® Award!
We are pleased to announce that Stephen Paulus’ Prayers and Remembrances has won the GRAMMY® Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition! Best Contemporary Classical CompositionPaulus: Prayers & RemembrancesStephen Paulus, composerTrack from: Paulus: Far In The Heavens The Stephen Paulus Family Accepts the GRAMMY Award Stephen Paulus (1949-2014) was hailed as “a bright, fluent inventor with a ready lyric gift” by The New Yorker. A prolific composer of over 500 works, he wrote for orchestra,…
BBC Music on Far In The Heavens
True Concord Voices and Orchestra’s Far In The Heavens: Choral Music of Stephen Paulus is reviewed in BBC Music‘s “Brief Notes” section: “…Prayers and Remembrances is the main work here. It marked the tenth anniversary of 9/11, and receives an appropriately sincere, reflective performance by the choir that commissioned it.” Terry Blain, BBC Music Order & Listen Now: ReferenceRecordings.comAmazonArkivMusicApple MusicSpotify
True Concord Does Stephen Paulus Proud
From MusicWeb International: “This is a fine disc. I appreciated the quality of the performances very much. The documentation is comprehensive and good. The sound quality is very pleasing also. … the sound is clear and pleasing and shows both the performers and the music to good advantage. All concerned, performers and technicians, have done Stephen Paulus proud with this release and I’m sure he was delighted by what he heard at the sessions. It’s…
True Concord Voices and Orchestra and the Utah Symphony in Gramophone Magazine!
Utah Symphony’s Mahler Symphony No. 1 and True Concord Voices and Orchestra’s Far In the Heavens both get Gramophone Magazine features in the October 2015 issue! Far In The Heavens “… abundantly lyric, soothingly consonant works…True Concord’s…vocal blend gilds the unaccompanied works especially with a halo of resonance.” —Alexander Coghlan Order & Listen Now: ReferenceRecordings.comAmazonArkivMusicApple MusicSpotify Mahler: Symphony No. 1 “…the orchestra acquits itself with distinction. The opening dawn chorus is notable for its hushed…
Far In The Heavens Climbing the Charts!
True Concord Voices & Orchestra’s Far In The Heavens release debuted last week at #13 on the Billboard Charts and is up to #5 this week! Order & Listen Now: ReferenceRecordings.comAmazonArkivMusicApple MusicSpotify
Far In the Heavens “A Must”
Critic Rad Bennett says Far In the Heavens is “a must” have release! “The overall spirit [of Prayers and Remembrances] is conciliatory, espousing hope through remembrance across many spiritual paths. I was especially moved by the setting of The Prayer of St. Francis and the a Capella anthem When Music Sounds to the verse of Walter de la Mare (“When music sounds, all that I was I am”). The performances are excellent and the recorded…
Opera Today Reviews Far In The Heavens
Far In The Heavens: Choral Music of Stephen Paulus receives a strong review in Opera Today: “Stephen Paulus provided the musical world, and particularly the choral world, with music both provocative and pleasing through a combination of lyricism and a modern-Romantic tonal palette. … Like his other large scale oratorios, [Prayers and Remembrances] covers the full range of his expressive and accessible style. … The performance of True Concord Voices and Orchestra is excellent. Paulus’…
New York Concert Review on True Concord Voices and Orchestra’s New York Debut
New York Concert Review critic Jeffrey Williams reviews the True Concord Voices and Orchestra performance at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall where they performed Stephen Paulus’ Prayers and Remembrances as part of their New York debut! “Prayers and Remembrances is a seven-movement work, each movement using carefully selected poems, both secular and non-secular, that all touched on the concept of grief, but also recovery and spirituality in living. … The music is tonal, with harmonic…
And they’re off!
True Concord Voices and Orchestra is officially on its way to NYC! True Concord Voices and Orchestra is making its New York City debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall on September 11 with Mozart’s Requiem and Stephen Paulus’s Prayers and Remembrances, which it commissioned for the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The group makes its international debut with release the same day of its album, Far in the Heavens: Choral Music of Stephen…
True Concord in New York City Next WEEK!
True Concord Voices & Orchestra release Far in the Heavens: Choral Music of Stephen Paulus NEXT WEEK (September 11, 2015) at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in a performance of Stephen Paulus’s Prayers and Remembrances and the Mozart Requiem! True Concord Voices & Orchestra™ was founded in 2004 as Tucson Chamber Artists. True Concord draws upon the first rank of professional choral and instrumental musicians from around the United States in service of its artistic…
Stephen Paulus: “The Incomprehensible”
The Incomprehensible Scored for chorus with oboe and harp accompaniment, The Incomprehensible (2009) provides this album’s title “Far in the Heavens” in its opening line, as it continues the allegory of departed souls now soaring as angels in heaven, about to know the “infinite Unknown.” The tempo is bright, the mood playful and free, the texture easy and light throughout, until that awe-filled moment when God’s nearness is anticipated. Those familiar with the HBO series…
True Concord Rehearses “Prayers and Remembrances” with Stephen Paulus
Enjoy video footage from True Concord Voices & Orchestra’s 2011 rehearsals with composer Stephen Paulus before the world premiere of Prayers and Remembrances: Far in the Heavens: Choral Music of Stephen Paulus World Premiere Recordings! Choral Music by beloved composer Stephen Paulus Far In The Heavens is comprised of recently composed and previously unrecorded works by Stephen Paulus, including two works that were commissioned and premiered by True Concord Voices & Orchestra: The Incomprehensible for…
Pre-Order September Releases Today!
September Releases Now Available for Pre-Order on Amazon! Far in the Heavens: Choral Music of Stephen Paulus World Premiere Recordings! Choral Music by beloved composer Stephen Paulus Far In The Heavens is comprised of recently composed and previously unrecorded works by Stephen Paulus, including two works that were commissioned and premiered by True Concord Voices & Orchestra: The Incomprehensible for their fifth anniversary season in 2009, and Prayers and Remembrances for the tenth anniversary of…