Utwory na płycie:

• The Heart of the Matter - Prologue - Fanfare- Where are the seeds of the Universal Fire
• The Heart of the Matter - Reading- The earth of my heart was broken and gaped low
• The Heart of the Matter - Fanfare
• The Heart of the Matter - Reading- In the hour when the sapphire of the bone
• The Heart of the Matter - Song- We are the darkness in the heat of the day
• The Heart of the Matter - Reading- In such a heat of the earth
• The Heart of the Matter - Canticle III- Still falls the Rain Op 55
• The Heart of the Matter - Reading- I see Christs wounds weep in the Rose on the wall
• The Heart of the Matter - Epilogue - Fanfare- So- out of the dark
• A Birthday Hansel Op 62
• Canticle V- The Death of Saint Narcissus Op 89
• Lord! I married me a wife
• Shes like the swallow
• Lemady
• Bonny at morn
• Bugeilior Gwenith Gwyn
• Dafydd y Garreg Wen
• The False Knight upon the Road
• Bird Scarers Song
• Greensleeves
• The Holly and the Ivy

The Heart of the Matter
A Birthday Hansel, Op. 92
Canticle V - The Death of Saint Narcissus, Op. 89

Winter Words, last year’s solo debut album by American tenor Nicholas Phan, was one of the most lauded releases of the year. Phan (pronounced not final cover art pahn) follows up with Still Falls the Rain, another intelligently devised album of Britten’s songs, this time focusing on works inspired by the composer’s key collaborators including horn player Dennis Brain, harpist Osian Ellis and poet Edith Sitwell. As with Winter Words (AV 2238), Phan successfully intersperses great song cycles with popular folk song arrangements. The rarely recorded The Heart of the Matter includes the narration of Sitwell’s poems by Scottish actor Alan Cumming.

critical acclaim for Nicholas Phan

“a total pleasure on all fronts … it marks Phan's entry as an artist who must be heard.” – National Public Radio

“a stimulating calling card for Nicholas Phan, a stylish young tenor for whom great things lie ahead” – Time Out NY

“Best vocal debut CD was Nicholas Phan's Winter Words … Born to sing Britten” – Bay Area Reporter

“masterful characterization … something to be treasured” – Boston Globe, Best of 2011

“a star in the making … exquisitely artful” – The Sunday Times (London)

“What a great discovery! … The young tenor excels in this programme” – Pizzicato (Luxembourg), Supersonic Award