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)