“…American tenor Nicholas Phan lent his bright, lyric instrument and an expressive stillness to a handful of early German songs and brought an understated sensuality to The Cherry-Blossom Wand (Clarke once described the dividing line between music and sex as “so tenuous as to be almost non-existent”)...”

“Rich, radiant performances bring a forgotten voice to life

Rebecca Clarke’s songs have been edging on to the radar recently, but this recording, led by the mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately, tenor Nicholas Phan and pianist Anna Tilbrook, is the first time they have all been assembled together…”

100 years ago, one of the best viola players of her generation – Rebecca Clarke – gave a sold-out concert at London’s Wigmore Hall. All of the music on the programme she had written herself. A new album of her works and a series of events will mark the centenery. Tenor Nicholas Phan and writer and broadcaster Leah Broad discuss.

“Nicholas Phan, in the role of Yonas, addresses with rare musical intelligence a part of extraordinary psychological complexity. His voice, of clear lyricism and finely-controlled vibrato, moves between innocence and despair, never giving in to pathos.“

– GB Opera

This November, the music of the trailblazing yet long-neglected British composer Rebecca Clarke takes centre stage with the release of a landmark recording and a dedicated Focus Day at Wigmore Hall. Internationally-acclaimed British mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately, Grammy Award-winning American tenor Nicholas Phan, and distinguished British pianist Anna Tilbrook have joined forces to record Rebecca Clarke – The Complete Songs, the first album to encompass Clarke’s entire song output, many of which are world premiere recordings….