Four nominations for OPUS CLASSIC AWARD 2023!

Four nominations for OPUS CLASSIC AWARD 2023!

Four nominations for OPUS CLASSIC AWARD 2023!

Four nominations for OPUS CLASSIC AWARD 2023!
Holger Falk’s last CD „Darius Milhaud: Songs Melodies et Chansons Vol.1“, a part of his series with the composers of „groupe des six“ has been nominated in 4 categories at the OPUS Klassik Award 2023: Singer of the Year, Best Solo Album, Chamber Music Recording of the Year and Best World Premiere Recording. After three nominations for the Honegger album last year Holger Falk is glad the series gets this recognition and he hopes more people are discovering this beautiful music. Listen to „Lamentation“ from the melancholic and beautiful cycle „poêmes juifs“ here. 

 

Movie „Two Shores“ at Krakow Film Festival

Movie „Two Shores“ at Krakow Film Festival

Movie „Two Shores“ at Krakow Film Festival

On May 30 and June 2, 2023, the film „Two Shores“ will premiere at the Krakow Film Festival. The oldest Polish film festival has invited the film as one of only 9 films in the category „best short film“.
„Anna Maria has a sad face, Anna Maria always looks into the distance“ – the words of the famous Polish ballad sung by Holger Falk in this film by Ewa Rodart accompany the protagonist who comes from Poland to New York to face the ghosts of her past.
„Two Shores“ poetically reflects the fate of many Polish families during the communist era, but transcends the boundaries of a country and an era. The film subtly touches on what hurts the most and what shapes us. At the same time, it does not lack a fascinating, almost documentary observation of the streets of a metropolis where many cultures and histories intermingle. A moving, subtle and sincere film.
With Ewa Rodart, Maks Kubiś, Jerzy Bończak, Philip Lenkowsky, Holger Falk.

 

Four nominations for OPUS CLASSIC AWARD 2023!

Milhaud-CD on Ö1, DesCis

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.
 

 

Four nominations for OPUS CLASSIC AWARD 2023!

Milhaud: CD of the month

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. 

 

Four nominations for OPUS CLASSIC AWARD 2023!

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

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)