Nicholas Phan
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RecommendedAnna Tilbrook (piano), Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano), Nicholas Phan (tenor), Max Baillie, Gweneth Ann Rand (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Seattle Chamber Music Society
The music-making throughout displays riveting eloquence and burning conviction, with Kitty Whately and Nicholas Phan in particular operating at the very top of their game...One of the year's... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2026, Editor's Choice
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Stranger - Works For Tenor By Nico Muhly
RecommendedNicholas Phan (tenor), Reginald Mobley, Lisa Kaplan, Colin Jacobsen, Brooklyn Rider, The Knights, Eric Jacobsen
This personal and deeply-felt album from star tenor Nicholas Phan offers a powerful exploration of what ‘national identity’ might mean...Muhly’s crisply unsentimental settings afford due space... —
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022, World Premiere Recording (New Work)
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Nicholas Phan, who has gotten mixed reviews in these pages, sings with an infectious ardor, and Amy I-Lin Cheng knocks off the Piano Concerto with aplomb. Through it all, conductor Kenneth Kiesler... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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A pensive arrangement by Jonathan Bingham of ‘Strange Fruit ’ is given a beautifully velvety rendition by jazz vocalist Farayi Malek...an enjoyable album, curated and performed from the heart. —
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Nominated - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Saariaho: Adriana Mater
RecommendedFleur Barron (Adriana), Axelle Fanyo (Refka), Nicholas Phan (Yonas), Christopher Purves (Tsargo)
San Francisco Symphony Chorus, San Francisco Symphony, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Saariaho puts text first and the singers respond, but articulation from the San Francisco Symphony, which has to muster such depths from rumbling percussion to solos from E flat clarinet and... —
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Winner - Best Opera Recording
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Grammy Awards, 67th Awards (2025), Nominated - Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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It is good to hear a male singer perform Brahm’s Es war ein Markgraf überm Rhein and Mendelssohn’s Hexenlied, and Huang’s fleet fingers make light of some fearsomely virtuosic accompaniments.... —
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Illuminations
Nicholas Phan (tenor), Myra Huang (piano)
Telegraph Quartet, The Knights Chamber Orchestra
Phan is brilliantly supported by the instrumentalists’ technicolour playing [in Les Illuminations]. Much of Phan’s soft singing is tenderly handled, and the moments where he slips into a transparent... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2018
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Scarlatti, A: La Gloria di Primavera
Diana Moore (mezzo-soprano), Suzana Ograjenšek (soprano), Clint van der Linde (countertenor), Nicholas Phan (tenor) & Douglas Williams (baritone)
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Philharmonia Chorale, Nicholas McGegan
McGegan and his ensemble are responsive to the varied instrumental shades, and their alert playing highlights Scarlatti’s fleet, dancing rhythms. Of the soloists, soprano Suzana Ograjensek (Summer)... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2016, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. L'Olimpiade: The Opera
RecommendedRomina Basso (Megacle), Franziska Gottwald (Licida), Karina Gauvin (Argene), Nicholas Phan (Clistene), Ruth Rosique (Aristea), Nicholas Spanos (Aminta)
Venice Baroque Orchestra, Markellos Chryssicos
Within individual numbers the performances can be thrilling...the band nimbly negotiates the huge range of effects demanded by this composite score...Franziska Gottwald is spellbinding in Vivaldi's... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd July 2012
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here's a disc disc to remember come all those end-of-year round-ups... There's a directness to Phan's delivery, a clarity to his diction that has previously found its home in Britten's text-driven... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2015, Editor's Choice
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