Grammy-winning tenor Nicholas Phan joins WFMT to preview the 2026 Collaborative Works Festival (September 23–26), an annual celebration of art song performance explored through one topic, theme, or idea. This year’s festival programs chart a progression: from communion with nature, to contemplation of its power, to a reckoning with our impact upon it. These concerts are offered as an invitation to listen closely, to notice what has changed, and to consider what kind of relationship with the natural world we hope to leave behind. Learn more HERE.
Playlist
Hugo Wolf: “Auch kleine Dinge” from Italienisches Liederbuch
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
Gerald Moore, piano
Robert Schumann: “Erste Begegnung” from Spanisches Liederspiel
Dame Felicity Lott, soprano
Angelika Kirchschlager, mezzo-soprano
Graham Johnson, piano
Aaron Copland: ‘Nature, the gentlest mother” from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
Adele Addison, soprano
Aaron Copland, piano
Henry T. Burleigh: “Among the Fuschias” from Five Songs of Laurence Hope
Will Liverman, baritone
Paul Sánchez, piano
Hector Berlioz: ‘Le spectre de la rose” from Les nuits dété
Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House/John Nelson
Wolf: “Waldmädchen’ from Eichendorff-Lieder
Katherine Broderick, soprano
Sholto Kynoch, piano
Vivian Fung: Lamenting Earth
III. O
IV. Vast, Green
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Myra Huang, piano
Jasper String Quartet
Claudio Monteverdi: “Zefiro torna” from the Ninth Book of Madrigals
Mark Padmore, tenor
Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, tenor
Les Arts Florrisants/William Christie
Franz Schubert: Auf dem Wasser zu singen
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Myra Huang, piano
