NICK PERFORMS HANS ZENDER’S RE-IMAGINING OF SCHUBERT’S WINTERREISE IN BOSTON

performing Hans Zender’s re-imagining of Schubert’s Winterreise with Emmanuel Music

BOSTON MUSICAL INTELLIGENCER

HANS ZENDER’S WINTERREISE EXPERIENCE

“…Nicholas Phan sounded strong and projected well, without excess, and always with warmth. A Lieder specialist, he sometimes took a conversational Sprechstimme turn and at other times let loose his full voice. Ryan Turner led the group with total command, maintaining balances to perfection. Nobody had difficulty mistaking the wind, a regular motif in Wilhelm Müller’s text, in Zender’s regular application of chromatic scales, piercing piccolos, and glissandi…”