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On 'Gods & Monsters', tenor Nicholas Phan explores a life-long fascination with myths and legends via lieder by Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann and Wolf.
Fulfilling a life-long fascination with myths and legends, tenor Nicholas Phan pairs with pianist Myra Huang for Gods & Monsters, an album exploring great Austrian and German Romantic composers' meditations on the title subjects and their fellow-fantastical creatures such as witches, knights and kings.
Personnel: Nicholas Phan (tenor), Myra Huang (piano)
Critical acclaim:
"One of the most beautiful young lyric voices around." - Opera News
"The year has barely begun and already here's a disc to remember come all those end-of-year round-ups." - Gramophone Editor's Choice (on A Painted Tale)
"A stylish young tenor for whom great things lie ahead." - Time Out New York (on Winter Words)
Tracklisting
Christoph Croise; Andrey Baranov; Alexander Panfilov
The Orchestra Now; Leon Botstein
Donald Berman
Lauren Scott
East of the River
Sebastian Bohren, Sergei Bolkhovets, Munchener Kammerorchester
Cantata Collective; Nicholas McGegan
Yoshika Masuda, HyeJin Kim
Nicholas Phan & Myra Huang
Nicholas Phan & Myra Huang
