MDG recordings are made in specially selected concert halls to capture natural acoustics, avoiding artificial reverb, sound filters, and limiters to ensure an unadulterated sound.
Compositional Technique
Germaine Tailleferre's songs often feature the vocal part and piano running in different keys, and are based on short, repeated rhythmic or motivic figures.
Performer Biography
Pianist Steffen Schleiermacher has made around eighty CD recordings, including the complete piano works of John Cage, and has received multiple awards including six Echo Klassik Prizes.
Composer Biography
Germaine Tailleferre, despite decades as an accompanist for singers, composed relatively few songs compared to Darius Milhaud, who left behind an almost incalculable number of song compositions.
Performer Biography
Baritone Holger Falk's repertoire spans from classical roles like Monteverdi's Orfeo to contemporary operas and numerous world premieres, and he is a professor of Lied interpretation at the University of Arts Graz.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Darius Milhaud and Germaine Tailleferre were part of the 'Groupe des Six', a group of composers who rejected musical Impressionism and the cult of Wagner, favoring simple, neoclassical forms and popular music styles.
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