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| Management number | 205726517 | Release Date | 2025/10/22 | List Price | $71.10 | Model Number | 205726517 | ||
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Title: Elena Ruehr: Songs for Stephen
Artist: Stephen Salter
Label: Avie
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 822252267228
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-06-27
Number of Discs: 1
Songs for Stephen represents a nearly three-decade collaboration between esteemed composer Elena Ruehr and celebrated baritone Stephen Salter's. Elena describes the time "a handsome and charismatic young man approached me after a premiere of one of my compositions at Boston University. He asked me to write him a song cycle for his debut recital with the Bank of Boston's Celebrity Series. I told him to send me a recording of his singing and I'd think about it. The first note I heard Stephen sing sent a bolt of energy down my spine: this was the singer I had always wanted to write for!"Stephen reciprocates, "What a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration has landed in my life both professionally and personally with Elena. From my first personal musical envelopment of her first song ever written for me, I truly fell in love with her creations for me, and thus we began this truly special and unique journey."Elena evocatively sets some of America's most notable poets, including Cuban-American and National Humanities Medal recipient Richard Blanco who read his own work at the second inauguration of President Barack Obama, himself a subject of Five Men in Guggenheim Fellow Elizabeth Alexander's encapsulation of two centuries' worth of multiple African-Americans experiences. Leading light of the Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes and feminist-activist Adrienne Rich lend their lyrics to poetry for children, both dark and light. The addition of the four-minute bonbon Lied, set to texts by Rainer Maria Rilke, is a reference to Elena's Germanic ancestry as well as the first song, by Schubert, that Elena heard Stephen sing.As with all of their collaborations over the years, Songs for Stephen brings Elena's evocative music to effervescent life by the baritone's sumptuous voice.
Tracks:
1.1 Five Men~I. Blue Prelude
1.2 Five Men~II. Waiting for Cinque
1.3 Five Men~III. Nat Turner Dreams of Insurrection
1.4 Five Men~IV. Carver’s Song
1.5 Five Men~V. The Elders
1.6 Lied
1.7 Travel Songs~I. Somewhere to Paris
1.8 Travel Songs~II. A Poet in Venice
1.9 Travel Songs~III. Torsos at the Louvre
1.10 Wonderful Bears
1.11 Lullabies ; Spring Songs~I. Signs of Spring
1.12 Lullabies ; Spring Songs~II. April Rain
1.13 Lullabies ; Spring Songs~III. City
1.14 Lullabies ; Spring Songs~IV. Sandman
1.15 Lullabies ; Spring Songs~V. Year Round
1.16 Lullabies ; Spring Songs~VI. Autumn Thought
1.17 Lullabies ; Spring Songs~VII. Stars
Artist: Stephen Salter
Label: Avie
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 822252267228
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2025-06-27
Number of Discs: 1
Songs for Stephen represents a nearly three-decade collaboration between esteemed composer Elena Ruehr and celebrated baritone Stephen Salter's. Elena describes the time "a handsome and charismatic young man approached me after a premiere of one of my compositions at Boston University. He asked me to write him a song cycle for his debut recital with the Bank of Boston's Celebrity Series. I told him to send me a recording of his singing and I'd think about it. The first note I heard Stephen sing sent a bolt of energy down my spine: this was the singer I had always wanted to write for!"Stephen reciprocates, "What a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration has landed in my life both professionally and personally with Elena. From my first personal musical envelopment of her first song ever written for me, I truly fell in love with her creations for me, and thus we began this truly special and unique journey."Elena evocatively sets some of America's most notable poets, including Cuban-American and National Humanities Medal recipient Richard Blanco who read his own work at the second inauguration of President Barack Obama, himself a subject of Five Men in Guggenheim Fellow Elizabeth Alexander's encapsulation of two centuries' worth of multiple African-Americans experiences. Leading light of the Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes and feminist-activist Adrienne Rich lend their lyrics to poetry for children, both dark and light. The addition of the four-minute bonbon Lied, set to texts by Rainer Maria Rilke, is a reference to Elena's Germanic ancestry as well as the first song, by Schubert, that Elena heard Stephen sing.As with all of their collaborations over the years, Songs for Stephen brings Elena's evocative music to effervescent life by the baritone's sumptuous voice.
Tracks:
1.1 Five Men~I. Blue Prelude
1.2 Five Men~II. Waiting for Cinque
1.3 Five Men~III. Nat Turner Dreams of Insurrection
1.4 Five Men~IV. Carver’s Song
1.5 Five Men~V. The Elders
1.6 Lied
1.7 Travel Songs~I. Somewhere to Paris
1.8 Travel Songs~II. A Poet in Venice
1.9 Travel Songs~III. Torsos at the Louvre
1.10 Wonderful Bears
1.11 Lullabies ; Spring Songs~I. Signs of Spring
1.12 Lullabies ; Spring Songs~II. April Rain
1.13 Lullabies ; Spring Songs~III. City
1.14 Lullabies ; Spring Songs~IV. Sandman
1.15 Lullabies ; Spring Songs~V. Year Round
1.16 Lullabies ; Spring Songs~VI. Autumn Thought
1.17 Lullabies ; Spring Songs~VII. Stars
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