Recorded in concert, March 2017. Chicago. William Jon Gray conducting.

Crucifixus à 8 - Lotti - Music of the Baroque

From J.S. Bach's St. John Passion. Performed with the Madison Bach Musicians, April 2017.

St. John Passion

Erwäge wie sein blutgefärbter

Ryan Townsend Strand, tenor
Madison Bach Musicians
April 2017

Ach Mein Sinn

Ryan Townsend Strand, tenor
Julia Davids, conductor
North Shore Choral Society

North Shore Choral Society

Agnus Dei - Bob Chilcott Requiem

Madison Bach Musicians Holiday Baroque 2018

Ich steh an deiner krippen hier - J.S. Bach

Performed at Grace Lutheran Church in River Forest, IL on March 24, 2019.

Alto Chorale - Sarah Ponder, Nathalie Colas
Ryan Townsend Strand, tenor
Haymarket Opera Orchestra
Michael Costello, conductor

Bach Cantata Vespers

Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir, BWV 131-Aria (Tenor with Alto Chorale)

First prize-winner of Chicago's inaugural SongSLAM competition hosted by Fourth Coast Ensemble and Sparks & Wiry Cries.
Erik Pearson, composer and pianist
Ryan Townsend Strand, tenor
Performed on April 14, 2019 at The Promontory, Chicago, IL

Original Text:
Dear Mrs. Kennedy,

I am not a writer of letters to anyone. I am a scientist, a physicist, older than you and younger than Jack Kennedy (which is how he was called in my thoughts although we never met). Born into a depression, trained into a terrible war, and made cynical by the cold war abroad and a McCarthy at home --- I found for the first time, in Jack Kennedy, a man to believe in.

As a very minor worker in the government, as a member of scientific advisory panels, for once I felt there was something to work for --- and someone to lead whom I could trust and respect. May I presume to offer my personal sympathies, and to assure you that there are many of us all over this country who hope that in some small way we can carry on the work he started. I, for one, intend to try.

To make up for the words I cannot write, may I share with you the words of Stephen Spender that have run through my head for the last two days:

"I think continually of those who were truly great. . . .
The names of those who in their lives fought for life
Who wore in their hearts the fire's center. 
Born of the sun they travelled a short while toward the sun,
And left the vivid air signed with their honor."

Sadly,
John Steinhart

Bethesda, MD: Nov 23, 1963 - Eric Pearson

Recorded at the Byron Colby Barn, February 16, 2020.
Ryan Townsend Strand, tenor
Joel Spears, theorbo

Henry Lawes - A Tale Of Anacreon

Allyson McHardy, mezzo-soprano
Ryan Townsend Strand, tenor
Nikolas Kramer, conductor
Music of the Baroque Orchestra

Recorded at the Harris Theater for Music & Dance. Chicago, IL.

BWV 208 Was Mir Behagt - Recit & Aria

Allyson McHardy, mezzo-soprano
Ryan Townsend Strand, tenor
Nicholas Kraemer, conductor
Music of the Baroque Orchestra

Recorded October 2019 at the Harris Theater for Music & Dance. Chicago, IL.

BWV 208 Was Mir Behaft - Duet

Performed at the Green Lake Music Festival in the Thrasher Opera House.

Josefien Stoppelenburg, soprano 
Ryan Townsend Strand, tenor

The iconic diet attributed (and hotly debated) to Claudio Monteverdi from his opera L’inoronazione di Poppea. In this duet, Emperor Nero and his love Poppea swear their love for one another, after a story of complete betrayal, renouncing of titles, and murder. Somehow this sweet tune sticks with the listener far beyond ancient Rome.

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