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Milhaud-CD on Ö1, DesCis

Milhaud-CD on Ö1, DesCis

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Milhaud-CD on Ö1, DesCis

„From the enormous Lied oeuvre of Darius Milhaud, Holger Falk and his piano partner Steffen Schleiermacher have made a selection of 32 Lieder. Works that offer a wide range of musical and textual expression, from the artificial art song to the cabaret-like chanson.“ – Helene Breisach presented Holger Falk’s CD „Daris Milhaud: Mélodies & Chansons“ on Ö1.
 

 

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Milhaud-CD on Ö1, DesCis

Milhaud: CD of the month

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Milhaud: CD of the month

Holger Falk’s latest CD „Darius Milhaud: Mélodies & chansons“ is the CD of the month in Rondo magazine. „Darius Milhaud acts as a kind of rougher, more banal brother of his comrade-in-arms Francis Poulenc, he does not use his pleasing jazz harmonies and just likes to make noise now and then. The vocal soloist has to master all kinds of effects, portamento, for example, or a kind of text treatment in singing that is more in demand in chanson than in classical song. Holger Falk is fantastically flexible with regard to all these particularities, he acts with the greatest possible wealth of expressive means, in tone possibly inspired by his striking predecessor Pierre Bernac, among others,“ writes Michael Wersin in Rondo. 

 

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Milhaud-CD on Ö1, DesCis

20th CD of Holger Falk: Darius Milhaud: Lieder „Melodies et Chansons“ Vol.1

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20th CD of Holger Falk: Darius Milhaud: Lieder „Melodies et Chansons“ Vol.1

New CD: Darius Milhaud: Songs „Melodies et Chansons“ Vol.1
On 28 October 2022 Holger Falk’s new CD „Darius Milhaud: „Melodies et Chansons“ Vol. 1″ is released by mdg in the series of recordings of the song compositions of the „groupe des six“. At the piano: Steffen Schleiermacher.
Darius Milhaud’s song oeuvre is enormous. Small chansons stand next to extensive cycles, highly artificial music next to songs for theatre productions. He preferred Paul Claudel, Léo Latil, Jean Cocteau, Paul Verlaine, Jules Supervielle and Stephan Mallarmé as text sources. But Rabindranath Tagore, James Joyce or Rainer Maria Rilke also appear several times among the poets set to music and – surprisingly – also a catalogue for agricultural machinery or a flower advertisement…
„I am a Frenchman from Provence and a Jew by religion“, is how Darius Milhaud begins his extremely readable autobiography „Notes without Music“.
He never denied either his origins in Provence or his Jewish faith, not even in his music. Many compositions seem to breathe directly the atmosphere of Provence and to shine in its light, which indeed attracted generations of painters. Often, Milhaud’s music is indeed filled with inner serenity.
As an amuse-oreille, an excursion into jazz: Chacun son tour from Deux Chansons de „Première Famille“ op. 193 (1938)
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Amopera at Festspielhaus Erl

Amopera at Festspielhaus Erl

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Amopera at Festspielhaus Erl

On 5 November at 6 pm, the world premiere of the meta-opera „AMOPERA“ took place at the Festspielhaus Erl Tirol. „AMOPERA“ stands for the relationships, contrasts, hopelessness and ecstasies with which the glowing yet inhospitable terrain of love is traversed. From the last scene from „Lulu“ by Alban Berg to „Kassandra“ by Iannis Xenakis and „Ach ich fühl’s“ by Bernhard Lang to „A respirar ritorno“ from Luci mie traditrici by Salvatore Sciarrino, this arc of scenes from operas of the last 100 years is spanned.
Inspired by the book „Liebesverrat“ (Betrayal of Love) by Peter von Matt, who thereby creates a literary history from the perspective of disloyalty, deception and disappointment, the Klangforum Wien under the direction of Bas Wiegers, together with the Brussels NEEDCOMPANY, as well as the soprano Sarah Maria Sun and the baritone Holger Falk, develop with the meta-opera a time journey through the new in music and opera – thematically set anew in each case. Using the technique of montage, editing and condensation, we interweave individual moments from a wide variety of operas and decades and bring them to new effect in the form of an 80 to 90-minute META-OPER. This format lives above all from the music, a sparse lighting concept and a stringent narrative.

 

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Liederabend in Lappersdorf

Liederabend in Lappersdorf

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Liederabend in Lappersdorf

 

Song recital on September 25, 2022 at the Aurelium Lappersdorf

„Why is the program called „The Woman in Me“? That is the title of a song by Wolfgang Rihm and gives the concert its framework. I have always been interested in the tensions of our human existence. The ambivalent pulsation of life that contradicts the bourgeois demand for classification and pigeonholing.
The composers we have chosen for this program are and were people who dealt with great (apparent) contrasts and disruptions. Schumann, who divided what was torn in him as the wild and formal into „Florestan“ and „Eusebius“, Satie, who created pure, naive music, lived lonely and at the same time was a pianist in the Parisian cabaret „Chat noir“. Poulenc, an avowed Catholic and a self-confessed homosexual already in the 1920s. And Rihm, Germany’s most famous living composer with a soft spot for texts by schizophrenic authors such as Wölfli, Herbeck, Lenz, Nietzsche and Hölderlin.
The spiritual thing about art is: here these apparent opposites become one.“

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