The Ma'alot Quintet, featuring Ulf-Guido Schäfer, is one of the world's leading chamber music ensembles, having won four first prizes in international competitions, including the 1989 ARD Munich Competition.
Performer Biography
The Trio Roseau, featuring Rachel Frost, Ulf-Guido Schäfer, and Malte Refardt, was founded in 2012 to perform wind chamber music, and the members are also close friends.
Performer Biography
Rachel Frost, the oboist and cor anglais player, has been a member of the 'Chamber Orchestra of Europe', an outstanding chamber music ensemble initiated by Claudio Abbado, since 1992.
Composer Biography
Ulf-Guido Schäfer is also a painter, and his intensive involvement with visual art began with creating collages from early 20th-century sheet music.
Recording & Production
MDG aims for genuine reproduction with precise depth gradation, original dynamics, and natural tone colors to give each work its musically appropriate spatial dimension.
Recording & Production
MDG recordings are produced in the natural acoustics of specially chosen concert halls, avoiding artificial reverberation, sound filters, or limiters.
Composer Biography
Ulf-Guido Schäfer, the composer, is a multiple 'Echo-Klassik' award winner.
