Stephen Paulus: Far in the Heavens

Eric Holtan, True Concord Orchestra, True Concord Voices

Paru le 11/09/2015 chez Reference Recordings
Artistes principaux : True Concord Voices
Genre : Classique

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Several recordings of music by composer Stephen Paulus have appeared since his death in 2014; to paraphrase an old bluegrass song, it might have been better to give him the roses while he lived! That said, the present recording was actually commissioned before Paulus' death, and it includes his own cogent notes on the main composition, a seven-movement work for chorus and orchestra called Prayers and Remembrances. The work was written for a performance on the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and it commemorates not only that event, but the personal losses suffered in its aftermath: its commissioner, Dorothy Vanek, lost friends and relatives in the attacks. The work was written to be paired with Mozart's Requiem in D minor, K. 626, and uses a similar orchestra, but with the addition of flute, oboe, horns, percussion, and quite prominently, a harp. Paulus selected sacred and secular works from a variety of traditions, including the words of Mohammed and of a Navajo prayer (sample track five), to create a work of mourning that was spiritual, but not restricted to one faith. The practice is reminiscent of the larger choral works by John Rutter, and indeed Paulus has much in common with Rutter: despite the personal nature of the work, what he accomplishes is a large, public kind of mourning rooted in Romantic idioms. Much of Paulus' music was orchestral; he spent many years as composer-in-residence with major American orchestras, and he wrote several operas, a background also reflected in Prayers and Remembrances. But he was also adept in more economical, a cappella pieces like those that round out the program. Paulus had a gift for clear choral textures, and the singers of the True Concord Voices can be clearly heard here despite the rather mushy high-school auditorium acoustics. That choir, from Tucson, Arizona, is one of the album's main attractions: it demonstrates the high quality of small regional choirs in the U.S. Recommended for those interested in Paulus and especially in his late works: all the music dates from the last few years of the composer's life.
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