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Disc No: AV 2258
Price: Sek. 155 Still Falls the Rain is the sophomore solo recording by American tenor Nicholas Phan, whose debut Winter Words AV 2238 was internationally acclaimed. Anticipating Britten's centenary in 2013, the follow up features The Heart of the Matter with Scottish actor Alan Cumming narrating.
Name: Still Falls the Rain
 

       

ComposerOpusMusicKey Performer
Britten, Benjamin (1913 – 1976)   The Heart of the Matter (rev. P. Pears 1983)   Nicholas Phan, tenor
Myra Huang, piano
Jennifer Montone, horn
Sivan Magen, harp
Alan Cumming, narrator
Britten, Benjamin   Prologue  
Britten, Benjamin   Reading “The earth of my heart…”  
Britten, Benjamin   Fanfare  
Britten, Benjamin   Reading “In the hour when the Sapphire…”  
Britten, Benjamin   Song  
Britten, Benjamin   Reading “In such a heat of the earth…  
Britten, Benjamin   Canticle III – Still Falls the Rain  
Britten, Benjamin   Reading “I see Christ's wounds weep…  
Britten, Benjamin   Epilogue  
Britten, Benjamin   8 Folksong Arrangements for Tenor and Harp  
Britten, Benjamin   Canticle V – The Death of St. Narcissus  
Britten, Benjamin Op. 92 A Birthday Hansel  

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