The Grammy-nominated duo of soprano Laura Strickling and pianist Joy Schreier present the first installment in a new series of recordings celebrating women as storytellers and bearers of cultural memory. LEGENDS: Rebellion comprises world-premiere recordings from composers Cecilia Livingston, Jens Ibsen, Jodi Goble, Jasmine Arielle Barnes, and Juhi Bansal on texts by Duncan McFarlane, Susan Bywaters, Caitlin Vincent, and Jocelyne Jam, as well as poems by anonymous girls from Afghanistan. The album explores rebellion in many forms: from Afghan women’s defiance of oppression, to a reversal of the power dynamic between Schubert’s Maiden and Death, to mythic heroines reclaiming their own narratives, to an unflinching portrait of new motherhood and a powerful meditation on love as resistance. Celebrated for her work performing and promoting art song, with an emphasis on new additions to the canon, Laura Strickling is the curator of the NewMusicShelf Anthology of New Music for Soprano, Vol. 1 and a recent guest on Live from WFMT (with pianist Daniel Schlosberg) and Listening to Singers.