Britten: Winter Words / Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

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Label
Avie Records
Release Date
September 1, 2011
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BRITTEN, BENJAMIN
    • PERFORMER
      Phan, Huang
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 01, 2011
    • UPC
      822252223828
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      AV2238
    • LABEL
      Avie Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Vocal
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. At Day-close in November

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    2. No. 2. Midnight on the Great Western

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    3. No. 3. Wagtail and Baby

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    4. No. 4. The Little Old Table

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    5. No. 5. The Choirmaster's Burial

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    6. No. 6. Proud Songsters

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    7. No. 7. At the Railway Station, Upway

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    8. No. 8. Before Life and After

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    9. Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 3, "British Isles": No. 7. Come you not from Newcastle?

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    10. No. 2. Little Sir William

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    11. No. 1. The Salley Gardens

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    12. No. 1. Sonetto XVI: Si come nella penna e nell'inchiostro

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    13. No. 2. Sonetto XXXI: A che più debb'io mai l'intensa voglia

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    14. No. 3. Sonetto XXX: Veggio co' bei vostri occhi un dolce lume

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    15. No. 4. Sonetto LV: Tu sa' ch'io so, signior mie, che tu sai

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    16. No. 5. Sonetto XXXVIII: Rendete a gli occhi miei, o fonte o fiume

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    17. No. 6. Sonetto XXXII: S'un casto amor, s'una pieta superna

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    18. No. 7. Sonetto XXIV: Spirto ben nato, in cui si specchia e vede

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    19. Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 1, "British Isles": No. 6. The Ash Grove

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    20. Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 4, "Moore's Irish Melodies": No. 9. The Last Rose of Summer

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    21. Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 3, "British Isles": No. 1. The Plough Boy

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang


Winter Words is the solo debut release by American tenor Nicholas Phan. The recording was made in the wake of a recital tour in 2010-11 which culminated in his Carnegie debut at Weill Hall. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and an alumnus of the Houston Grand Opera studio Nick has performed with the opera companies of Los Angeles and Seattle, symphony orchestras of Atlanta, St. Louis and San Francisco, and the Marlboro, Ravinia and Edinburgh Festivals, among others. He sang in Stravinsky's Pulcinella with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Boulez which was nominated for a Grammy Award. Nick presents a deeply personal perspective of Britten's music, encompassing his own performing experiences to audience reaction. He says: "I've been a fan of Britten since playing his Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra with my youth orchestra in Detroit as a teenage violinist. But my great devotion to his music increased to an obsession when an excellent pianist and good friend asked if I'd perform with her at a small university in Missouri. She suggested Winter Words, saying, "I think these would sound really great in your voice, and I've wanted to play them for ages, so indulge me." I researched and played through Britten's settings of Hardy's poems and before long, I was hooked." Approaching the performance in a small Midwestern town with some trepidation ("how would they react?"), Nick describes the audience's overwhelmingly positive response: "my favourite piece on the program ... the most lasting impression." Such is the enduring quality of Britten's sophisticated yet direct song writing, of which Nick is a leading torch-bearer. critical acclaim for Nicholas Phan "took hold of the music with unerring musicality, precise diction, and conversational command." - The Rest is Noise, Alex Ross "an excellent young singer ... more importantly he penetrates deeply into the inner drama" - Boston Globe "Vocally and dramatically at the level of the finest international artists." - Chicago Sun Times