LEGENDS: Rebellion is the next installment in a series of recordings celebrating women as storytellers and bearers of cultural memory. Featuring world-premiere recordings, Grammy-nominated, long-time collaborative duo soprano Laura Strickling and pianist Joy Schreier return to add to the evolving legend of modern art song in an album exploring rebellion in many forms: political, emotional, erotic, maternal, and spiritual. From Afghan women’s landay poetry composed in defiance of oppression, to mythic heroines reclaiming their own narratives, to an unflinching portrayal of new motherhood and a powerful meditation on love as resistance. Pushing against conventional expectations of what art song “should” be, this album offers a kaleidoscopic array of harmonic and rhythmic languages alongside compelling, deeply human texts; a program that fascinates, challenges, informs, and delights – inviting both devoted listeners of art song and those less familiar with the genre into a richly expressive sonic world celebrating contemporary song as a space for courage, vulnerability, witness, and transformation.

1-5 Love, Loss, and Exile 

Juhi Bansal - poems by Anonymous Girls from Afghanistan

1. Love          

2. The Stoning Ground          

3. Grief          

4. Exile          

5. Tulips          
with Carrie Bean Stute, cello

6-8 Salt Air 

Cecilia Livingston - lyrics by Duncan McFarlane & Cecilia Livingston

1. Kalypso          

2. Circe          

3. Penelope          

9 Why won’t you let me look right at you?          

Jens Ibsen - poem by Susan Bywaters

10-14 Night-time in the Fourth Trimester

Jodi Goble - lyrics by Caitlin Vincent 

I. Welcome          

II. Breast is Best          

III. I Should Have Worn Bikinis          

IV. Please Sleep          

V. Epilogue          

15 The Original Rebellion          

Jasmine Arielle Barnes - poem by Jocelyne Jam

Release date: August 14, 2026
UPC: 053479229106

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