RECORDINGS

NICHOLAS PHAN RECORDING PROJECTS

The following recordings were produced – either wholly or partially – as part of Nicholas Phan Recording Projects, which is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Nicholas' solo recording projects must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

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A CHANGE IS GONNA COME

with Palaver Strings & Farayi Malek
Azica Records
A Change Is Gonna Come celebrates the rich legacy of American protest songs, from beloved anthems to new commissions. These songs reflect on individual experiences of oppression and call us to join the collective work of liberation.

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STRANGER

with Brooklyn Rider, Colin Jacobsen, Eric Jacobsen, Lisa Kaplan, The Knights, & Reginald Mobley
Avie Records
This album comprises world premiere recordings of three of the composer’s major works: Impossible Things for tenor, solo violin and orchestra; Lorne Ys My Likinge for countertenor, tenor and piano; and Stranger for tenor and string quartet.

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CLAIRIÈRES

with Myra Huang
Avie Records
The selections on this album are songs that both Nadia and Lili Boulanger were composing during these years leading up to and immediately after their respective successes at the Prix de Rome. The recording is a testament to the beautiful work of two extraordinary women who changed the course of music history.

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ILLUMINATIONS

with Myra Huang, Telegraph Quartet, & The Knights
Avie Records
Illuminations examines the explosive and scandalous romance between seminal French poets Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud through musical settings of their poetry by Benjamin Britten, Claude Debussy, and Gabriel Fauré.

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GODS & MONSTERS

with Myra Huang
Avie Records
What are songs but stories set to music? Whether they are confessional stories of the self or the telling of any variety of narrative, songs are but musical tales.

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A PAINTED TALE

with Ann Marie Morgan & Michael Leopold
Avie Records
Taking Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin as a model, the English Renaissance songs on this album are ordered so to tell a story, a so-called ‘Painted Tale’ of a young man who falls in love with a young woman, and is destroyed by the heartbreak that ensues, choosing death as the only possible escape from his torment.

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STILL FALLS THE RAIN

with Alan Cumming, Myra Huang, Sivan Magen, & Jennifer Montone
Avie Records
An album exploring music born of Benjamin Britten’s circle of friends, who both stimulated his imagination and disciplined its exercise, pushing technical and expressive boundaries and creating a richer world of musical colour and expression.

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WINTER WORDS

with Myra Huang
Avie Records
Nicholas Phan’s debut album of song cycles by Benjamin Britten.

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