Songs and Chamber Music brings together two powerful musical voices separated by generations yet united by emotional depth and lyrical intensity. Roman Ryterband's rarely heard works trace a life marked by exile, loss, and cultural memory-from intimate Hebrew songs and elegiac chamber pieces to German Lieder and American-inspired songs shaped by war, displacement, and longing. His music blends late-Romantic richness with Jewish musical echoes, revealing a composer of striking melodic invention and human sensitivity.Alongside Ryterband's rediscovered legacy, Wojciech Stepien offers contemporary reflections on solitude, love, and memory. Drawn from his opera A Single Man and song cycles inspired by James Joyce, Stepien's works evoke California landscapes, inner monologues, and haunting emotional shadows. Together, these recordings form a moving dialogue between past and present-music that speaks quietly, intensely, and with enduring relevance.

Tracklist:

Three Hebrew Songs for high voice and piano~A Lonely Tear Softly Fell
Three Hebrew Songs for high voice and piano~A Lily for Lily
Three Hebrew Songs for high voice and piano~Come Gladly, with Delight in Our Love
Nocturne in E-flat minor for solo piano
Three Hebrew Ballads for violin and piano~The Dreamer
Three Hebrew Ballads for violin and piano~The Joyful Teacher
Three Hebrew Ballads for violin and piano~Lullaby
Five German Songs for high voice and piano~Rose and Butterfly
Five German Songs for high voice and piano~Moonlit Night
Five German Songs for high voice and piano~A Speck Falls
Five German Songs for high voice and piano~I Stand Alone
Five German Songs for high voice and piano~Concert for Tulip
Two American Songs for soprano and piano~A Lullaby
Two American Songs for soprano and piano~Carnelian roses
Day of a Single Man for solo piano~Morning in Santa Monica Canyon
Day of a Single Man for solo piano~Driving at 10 Freeway
Day of a Single Man for solo piano~Sunset at Mulholland Drive
Wind Whines for mezzo-soprano and piano~On the Beach at Fontana
Wind Whines for mezzo-soprano and piano~Watching the Needleboats at San Sabba
Wind Whines for mezzo-soprano and piano~She Weeps over Rahoon
Night Shadows for bass clarinet and piano~I.
Night Shadows for bass clarinet and piano~II.
Night Shadows for bass clarinet and piano~III.

UPC: 5902547022215
Label: Dux Recording Prod.
Release Date: 4.17.26
Format: CD

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