Catalogue

Summary:

Fulfilling a life-long fascination with myths and legends, tenor Nicholas Phan pairs with pianist Myra Huang for Gods & Monsters, exploring great Austrian and German Romantic composers’ meditations on the title subjects and their fellow-fantastical creatures such as witches, knights and kings. The wide-ranging programme of songs by Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann and Wolf, will be presented in Phan’s Wigmore Hall recital debut on 26 February 2017.

Tracklist:

MOUNT OLYMPUS
Franz Schubert
1. An die Leier (4:07)
2. Ganymed (3:53)
3. Atys (4:04)
4. Der Musensohn (1:54)

KNIGHTS AND KINGS
5. Schubert Der Sänger (6:26)
6. Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897) Es war ein Markgraf überm Rhein (3:21)
Gustav Mahler (1860 – 1911)
7. Rheinlegendchen (3:07)
8. Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen (7:13)
9. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827) Aus Goethe’s Faust (2:07)

THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT
10. Schubert Der Zwerg (5:06)
11. Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856) Waldesgespräch (2:14)
12. Hugo Wolf (1860 – 1903) Der Feuerreiter (4:41)
13. Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847) Hexenlied (2:07)

FAIRY TALES
14. Schumann Der Sandman (1:53)
Wolf
15. Der Rattenfänger (2:24)
16. Elfenlied (1:52)
17. Storchenbotschaft (3:50)

POSTLUDE
18. Brahms Sandmännchen (4:02)

Total time: 64.27

Recording: 8 & 9 August 2016, Skywalker Sound, a Lucasfilm Ltd Company, Marin County, California Executive producers: Melanne Mueller, Nicholas Phan & Philip Wilder
Producer, engineer, editing, mixing & mastering: Marlan Barry
Technical assistance: Dann Thompson