Illuminations - Faure, Debussy, & Britten / Nicholas Phan

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Label
Avie Records
Release Date
April 20, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BRITTEN DEBUSSY FAURE
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Telegraph Quartet
    • PERFORMER
      Phan, Huang, The Knights, C. Jacobsen, E. Jacobsen
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 20, 2018
    • UPC
      822252238228
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      AV2382
    • LABEL
      Avie Records
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Une Sainte en son auréole

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Telegraph Quartet

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    2. No. 2. Puisque l'Aube grandit

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Telegraph Quartet

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    3. No. 3. La lune blanche luit dans les bois

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Telegraph Quartet

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    4. No. 4. J'allais des chemins perfides

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Telegraph Quartet

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    5. No. 5. J'ai presque peur, en vérité

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Telegraph Quartet

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    6. No. 6. Avant que tu ne t'en ailles

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Telegraph Quartet

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    7. No. 7. Donc, ce sera par un clair jour d'été

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Telegraph Quartet

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    8. No. 8. N'est-ce pas?

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Telegraph Quartet

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    9. No. 9. L'hiver a cessé

      Composer: Gabriel Fauré

      Ensemble: Telegraph Quartet

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    10. No. 1. C'est l'extase

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    11. No. 2. Il pleure dans mon cœur

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    12. No. 3. L'ombre des arbres

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    13. No. 4. Chevaux de bois

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    14. No. 5. Green

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    15. No. 6. Spleen

      Composer: Claude Debussy

      Performer: Nicholas Phan, Myra Huang

    16. No. 1. Fanfare

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Knights

      Performer: Nicholas Phan

      Conductor: Colin Jacobsen, Eric Jacobsen

    17. No. 2. Villes

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Knights

      Performer: Nicholas Phan

      Conductor: Colin Jacobsen, Eric Jacobsen

    18. No. 3. Phrase

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Knights

      Performer: Nicholas Phan

      Conductor: Colin Jacobsen, Eric Jacobsen

    19. No. 4. Antique

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Knights

      Performer: Nicholas Phan

      Conductor: Colin Jacobsen, Eric Jacobsen

    20. No. 4. Royauté

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Knights

      Performer: Nicholas Phan

      Conductor: Colin Jacobsen, Eric Jacobsen

    21. No. 5. Marine

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Knights

      Performer: Nicholas Phan

      Conductor: Colin Jacobsen, Eric Jacobsen

    22. No. 6. Interlude

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Knights

      Performer: Nicholas Phan

      Conductor: Colin Jacobsen, Eric Jacobsen

    23. No. 7. Being Beauteous

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Knights

      Performer: Nicholas Phan

      Conductor: Colin Jacobsen, Eric Jacobsen

    24. No. 8. Parade

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Knights

      Performer: Nicholas Phan

      Conductor: Colin Jacobsen, Eric Jacobsen

    25. No. 9. Départ

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Ensemble: The Knights

      Performer: Nicholas Phan

      Conductor: Colin Jacobsen, Eric Jacobsen


A New York Times 25 Best Tracks Selection for 2018 - Fanfare

Following acclaimed albums devoted to Britten, baroque lute songs and German lieder, Grammy Award-nominated tenor Nicholas Phan continues to spread his wings with Illuminations, an album featuring compositions by Benjamin Britten, Claude Debussy and Gabriel Faure who were each inspired by the poetry of two nineteenth century French literary titans, Paul Verlaine and his protégé and eventual lover Arthur Rimbaud. The intertwined lives of the French poets and composers manifested themselves in Faure’s impassioned Verlaine-inspired ‘La bonne chanson’ and Debussy’s ‘Ariettes oubliees’ drawn from Verlaine’s ‘Romances sans paroles.’ Just decades later Britten was inspired by Rimbaud’s influential prose-poetry ‘Les Illuminations.’ Critical acclaim for Nicholas Phan has been widespread.



REVIEW:

Britten captures the blend of bizarre, beautiful, decadent, and courtly elements in Rimbaud's symbolist poems. These mingled emotions enliven Mr. Phan’s singing on this recording, starting with the opening “Fanfare,” in which, in trembling voice, he declares that he alone holds the key to this savage parade (of life).

– New York Times