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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’…
BlogCritics Review Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice
Fiona Boyes new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Box & Dice gets five stars from BlogCritics.org! “Fiona Boyes is an amazing blues performer from Australia with a great husky voice and a love for unusual instruments. This self-produced album features simple but effective arrangements. … These unusual instruments ensure a different and interesting sound, but do not think of this album as a novelty. It’s not that at all. The songs include nine great originals…
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…
Fiona Boyes Box & Dice Preview on YouTube
Preview next month’s Box & Dice release from Fiona Boyes with our new YouTube Playlist featuring live performances of works on the album: Fiona Boyes: Box & Dice Fiona Boyes plays deep Blues, influenced by a myriad of traditional regional styles. She has carved an international reputation as a blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter, and American reviewers have described her as a ‘musical anomaly’ and ‘Bonnie Raitt’s evil twin’! Equally at home on acoustic or…
Far In The Heavens Now Playing on YouTube!
Far In The Heavens: Choral Music of Stephen Paulus is now on YouTube Music! Listen here: Order & Listen Now: ReferenceRecordings.comAmazonArkivMusicApple MusicSpotify
Positive Feedback Reviews the New Copland LP
The new Reference Mastercuts recording of Eiji Oue and the Minnesota Orchestra’s Copland receives high praise from Positive Feedback Online: “The original release was on HDCD CD and has been a reference disk for my reviews since it was available…I am so very pleased that RR waited until QRP and its fully tweaked 200 gram LP presses could have a go with this. … Like all great LPs, they produce more pure definition than their…
Two New Releases! Far In The Heavens & Mahler: Symphony No. 1 “Titan”
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 the September 11, 2001 tragedy in 2011. GRAMMY®-award…
Utah Symphony’s Mahler a “Stunning SACD”
Audiophile Audition‘s Steven Ritter gives a four-star review to the Utah Symphony’s Mahler: Symphony No. 1 “Titan” recording before its official release tomorrow (9/11/15): “This recording celebrates 75 years of superb orchestral work from the Utah Symphony and it is nice to see them back on record. It’s also nice to see an SACD from that bastion of audio excellence, Reference Recordings… Young conductor Thierry Fischer also proves himself a fine Mahlerian…this is a very…
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…
#TitanTuesday — Mahler’s “Titan” Symphony
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 The work recorded here is, of course, known everywhere as Mahler’s First Symphony. That is not, however, what Mahler thought he was writing at the time, and it took him several years to decide quite what he had wrought (and, in the process, to drop one of the movements). Was this a symphony, or did it belong rather to that alternative, more modern category, the symphonic poem? It was as an…
Wichita Blues Society Recommends Doug MacLeod CDs!
Randy Crump reviews Doug MacLeod’s “Art for Your Ears” concert in the Wichita Blues Society’s “Blues Riff” newsletter: “MacLeod, who is a master storyteller and very entertaining, explained the blues to an audience of over 300 people. Drawing on his 40 years on the road as a bluesman, he introduced each song with a great story about why and how it came about. He painted a picture in each audience member’s mind as he prepared…
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…
Utah Symphony #TBT!
Celebrate #ThrowbackThursday with Varujan Kojian’s Utah Symphony recording of Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique! Utah Symphony Recordings on RR Mahler: Symphony No. 1 “Titan” The Utah Symphony, celebrating its 75th anniversary in the 2015-season, is one of America’s major symphony orchestras and a leading cultural organization in the Intermountain West. It is recognized internationally for its distinctive performances, commitment to music education programs, and recording legacy. Reference Recordings is pleased to announce the release of this new…
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…
#TitanTuesday — The Tradition Continues
Founded in 1940, the Utah Symphony became recognized as a leading American ensemble largely through the efforts of Maurice Abravanel, Music Director from 1947 to 1979. During his tenure, the orchestra undertook four international tours, released numerous recordings and developed an extensive music education program. A pioneering cycle of Mahler Symphonies conducted by Abravanel was recorded between 1963 and 1974 and included the first commercial stereo recordings of the Seventh and Eighth Symphonies. These recordings…