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Our new recording
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Nova Scotia Masterworks Award. Click on the album cover, title, or Catalogue No. for more information, reviews, track lists, credits, and sound clips as well as to activate the Shopping Cart feature for the album if you choose to order directly from Pelagosmusic. In The Wide Awe And Wisdom Choral Works by Paul Halley Grammy Award-winner Paul Halley presents sixteen new choral works from among his commissions of the past decade. Halley's signature style, of vibrant harmonies, lyrical melodies, and intricate rhythms, underlays a range of beautiful texts. Elegantly performed by Keramion Singers, with Paul Halley at organ and piano, and a quartet of other players on trumpet, french horn, saxophone, timpani, and cymbals. Fresh and vibrant. Keramion Singers Directed by Paul Halley PEL1006 Digital download or physical CD |
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Choral recordings
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A CHRISTMAS PEACE
• Christmas Chorus Angelicus & Gaudeamus Directed by Paul Halley PEL1000 Single Track MP3 $1.49 An elegantly beautiful arrangement of Silent Night with America the Beautiful created by Paul Halley in memory of September 11, 2001.
'I
am stunned silly by the beauty of Chorus Angelicus. What an
achievement! The voices and the musicianship are nothing short of
outstanding.'
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CHRISTMAS ANGELICUS
• Christmas Chorus Angelicus & Gaudeamus Directed by Paul Halley JN103 Digital download only A beautiful celebration of the holiday season with traditional and contemporary carols. 'Recording and performances are superb, with the sweet, transparent sound of Chorus Angelicus imparting something inimitable and irreplaceable: innocent wonder at the season.' - The Choral Journal 'The vocals are sublime – ranging from the hauntingly ethereal to the “joyful noise” for which these groups are known! It is easy to imagine oneself in heaven, or at least in the musician’s suburb of it!' - AGO, Waterbury, CT |
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WHAT CHILD IS THIS?
• Christmas Chorus Angelicus & Gaudeamus Directed by Paul Halley PEL1005 Digital download or physical CD This stunningly beautiful offering from Paul Halley and his choirs is spiced with inventive harmonies and textures. Lots of Paul Halley arrangements and compositions among these carols for Christmas.
'Halley’s own arrangements are pleasingly inventive. It’s a well ordered
programme ending gently with Watts’ Cradle Hymn after an exhilaratingly
liberated Go, Tell It on the Mountain.'
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Choral recordings A-Z Click on any CD image, title, or Catalogue No. for more information, reviews, track lists, credits, and sound clips as well as to activate the Shopping Cart feature for that particular CD. |
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SOUND OVER ALL WATERS
Theresa Thomason and Paul Halley with Keramion PEL1001 Digital download or physical CD Singer Theresa Thomason and choral ensemble Keramion perform with top instrumentalists in Halley compositions. 'Halley is an immensely creative musician who gathers inspiration from wherever the wind blows. Never a manufacturer of illusions, Halley feels the true impact of what he creates because he understands the intrinsic relationship between music and life.' - Sound Waves 'Teamed up with gospel diva Theresa Thomason and a supporting cast that would do Cecil B. DeMille proud, Halley commands a unique medium remarkable for its fluidity and emotional power. The performances are superb.' - The American Organist |
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UNTRAVELED WORLDS
Chorus Angelicus Directed by Paul Halley PEL1004 Digital download only Chorus Angelicus provides the perfect voice , brilliant and clear, for a song journey around the world. 'There are a few pieces in which I literally could not be sure if the singing was a-capella or organ accompanied – I suspect the latter, but the registration and blending is so good that the organ, if present, becomes literally another voice in the chorus. Now that’s Voix Humaine!' - AGO, Waterbury, CT |
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VOICES OF LIGHT Chorus Angelicus Directed by Paul Halley JN101 Digital download only Debut recording of Paul Halley’s children’s choir. A rich and varied sampler.
'...so clear, so tight an ensemble, sounding as one voice at times, and
the quality of that sound almost as a resonating glass of water."
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WONDROUS LOVE
featuring Halley's Love Songs for Springtime Chorus Angelicus & Gaudeamus The Battell Brass - Directed by Paul Halley JN104 Digital download only Choral works of Paul Halley performed by his own choirs with organ and brass. 'The ease with which the composer moves between styles as disparate as Gregorian chant and shape-note hymnody - all the while tying it together with his own unique sound - is most impressive.' - The American Organist '...an enriching experience regardless of your belief system; there is a universality in the musical expression that transcends denomination.' - Rambles Magazine |
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NIGHTWATCH
Paul Halley pipe organ PEL1002 Digital download or physical CD Improvisations and meditations on the Great Organ of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
'For some of
us, the most memorable moments in several classic Paul Winter Consort
albums are those in which the rich and grounded voice of the great organ
at St. John the Divine, in the hands of Paul Halley, begins to simmer at
the periphery and then swell to a truly heart-warming grander impossible
for any other instrument to achieve.'
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TRIPTYCH
Paul Halley Piano - Organ - Harpsichord PEL1003 Digital download or physical CD Paul Halley creates an exciting new repertoire of compositions for the unique ensemble of piano, pipe organ, and harpsichord. 'Playing music that is at once vibrant and intricately contrapuntal, Halley deploys the instruments with a symphonic sense of coloration.' - Billboard Magazine
'In
the intense and sometimes overwhelmingly insular community of church
musicians, Paul Halley smiles and hands us this delicious reminder that,
hey, there is another world out there.'
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ANGEL ON A STONE WALL
Paul Halley Piano and Pipe Organ and a ensemble of friends on a myriad of instruments. Paul Halley composes a collection of wholly origi nal ensemble pieces, rich with visual detail, context, and story line. "Paul Halley is an immensely creative musician who gathers inspiration from wherever the wind blows. Angel on a Stone Wall is both beautiful and inspiring, enlightening and free." – Sound Waves |
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MISSA GAIA / EARTH MASS
The Paul Winter Consort Paul Halley, piano and pipe organ The Cathedral Chorus and Choristers, directed by Paul Halley Digital format available at online streaming platforms and YouTube A joyful, jubilant, contemporary mass setting for the earth. This is an ecumenical, ecological world view of how the idea and the form of liturgical music might be adapted to a celebration of Mother Earth. - Bob Zeidler |
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NEW FRIEND
Eugene Friesen, Cello Paul Halley, Piano and Pipe Organ Living tapestries of sound, woven by two master musicians, in the acoustics of a great cathedral. With their free-wheeling duets for cello and keyboards, Friesen and Halley blaze a new path for their instruments in this landmark album of improvisations recorded in the vibrant acoustics of New York City's Cathedral of St John the Divine. |
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PIANOSONG Paul Halley Piano and Pipe Organ "The melodies he [Paul Halley] wrote for his solo piano/pipe organ LP, Pianosong, are so tuneful Barry Manilow would become an axe murderer just for the chance to say ‘I wrote them’. " – Cincinnati Enquirer |
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