RITUALS presents the art songs of three contrasting composers: Charles Ives’ American experience of community and family, ancient rituals and passions of Reynaldo Hahn’s Études latines, and the intimate domestic rituals of William Bolcom’s vivid miniatures in Briefly It Enters. RITUALS is a full recital program shaped into an album-length narrative—song as ritual: memory repeated, language tasted…life, love, and death revealed in a few concentrated minutes. With cover art reminiscent of chairs stored for large family occasions reminding us of the ritual of preparing the house, the packaging features photography of the preserved house of poet Jane Kenyon.
EP #1: January 23, 2026
EP #2: February 20, 2026
Album Drop: March 20, 2026
RITUALS: Art Songs by Charles Ives, Reynaldo Hahn, and William Bolcom
Laura Choi Stuart, soprano
Tanya Blaich, piano
EP #1: January 23, 2026
EP# 2: February 20, 2026
Album Release: March 20, 2026
Album Details
Title: Rituals
Label: Acis
Composer: Charles Ives, Reynaldo Hahn, and William Bolcom
Artists: Laura Choi Stuart, soprano and Tanya Blaich, piano
CAT #: APL78383
UPC: 796520078390 (DIGITAL)
UPC: 796520078383 (CD)
UPC: 796520078406 (VINYL)
UPC: 732262898346 (CASSETTE)
Total Time: 65:32
Recording Venue: Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
August 6–8, 2025
Track List
Charles Ives (1874–1954)
The Things Our Fathers Loved
2. Watchman!
3. The See’r
4. Down East
5. West London
6. From “Paracelsus”
7. The Innate
8. Tom Sails Away
Reynaldo Hahn (1874–1947), from Études latines
9. Néère
10. Salinum
11. Lydé
12. Vile potabis
13. Tyndaris
14. Pholoé
15. Phyllis
William Bolcom (b. 1938)
16. Waitin, from Cabaret Songs
Briefly It Enters
17. Who
18. The Clearing
19. Otherwise
20. February: Thinking of Flowers
21. Twilight: After Haying
22. Man Eating
23. The Sick Wife
24. Peonies at Dusk
25. Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks
26. Miracle Song, from Cabaret Songs
Links: Laura Choi Stuart | Tanya Blaich | Cover Art | Press Release | One Sheet