Stephen Salters – Ruehr: Songs For Stephen (2025) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Stephen Salters – Ruehr: Songs For Stephen (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:29 minutes | 980 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © AVIE Records

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.

Tracklist:

1-1. Stephen Salters – Five Men: I. Blue Prelude (03:44)
1-2. Stephen Salters – Five Men: II. Waiting for Cinque (03:06)
1-3. Stephen Salters – Five Men: III. Nat Turner Dreams of Insurrection (04:30)
1-4. Stephen Salters – Five Men: IV. Carver’s Song (02:35)
1-5. Stephen Salters – Five Men: V. The Elders (02:48)
1-6. Stephen Salters – Lied (04:11)
1-7. Stephen Salters – Travel Songs: I. Somewhere to Paris (04:10)
1-8. Stephen Salters – Travel Songs: II. A Poet in Venice (07:15)
1-9. Stephen Salters – Travel Songs: III. Torsos at the Louvre (04:59)
1-10. Stephen Salters – Wonderful Bears (05:07)
1-11. Stephen Salters – Lullabies & Spring Songs: I. Signs of Spring (01:11)
1-12. Stephen Salters – Lullabies & Spring Songs: II. April Rain (03:00)
1-13. Stephen Salters – Lullabies & Spring Songs: III. City (02:06)
1-14. Stephen Salters – Lullabies & Spring Songs: IV. Sandman (03:45)
1-15. Stephen Salters – Lullabies & Spring Songs: V. Year Round (01:10)
1-16. Stephen Salters – Lullabies & Spring Songs: VI. Autumn Thought (01:39)
1-17. Stephen Salters – Lullabies & Spring Songs: VII. Stars (04:03)

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