Nathan was invited to join the Lied Can Fly podcast to discuss his own songs-cycle The Little That Was Once a Man with host Sabine Berger and tenor James Gilchrist, who premiered the work and recorded it with Nathan for SOMM Recordings. The podcast discusses the extreme emotional range of the songs, setting Bryan Heiser’s poetry, moving from hifalutin claptrap to infantile humour to explicit sexual violence, and how the music depicts this through Handel-esque vocal virtuosity, a range of pianistic fireworks and a swaggering rhythmic drive. Click here to listen to the episode and explore other episodes of Sabine’s wonderful podcast, celebrating contemporary art-song.
