MIKLÓS RÓZSA: Sinfonia concertante - Cello Rhapsody Harriet Krijgh, Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz & Gregor Bühl

• Miklós Rózsa (1907 - 1995): Sinfonia concertante Op. 29:
• 1 Rózsa: Sinfonia concertante Op. 29: I. Adagio non troppo lento 10:47
• 2 Rózsa: Sinfonia concertante Op. 29 : II. Tema · Andante con variazioni 12:34
• 3 Rózsa: Sinfonia concertante Op. 29: III. Allegro con brio 08:30
• Notturno ungherese Op. 28:
• 4 Rózsa: Notturno ungherese Op. 28 08:57
• Rhapsody for cello and orchestra Op. 3:
• 5 Rózsa: Rhapsody for cello and orchestra Op. 3 15:45
• Total Runtime 56:33

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This recording is a journey of discovery through the concert music of Miklós Rózsa, known to many only for his film music (‘Spellbound’, ‘Ben-Hur’, ‘Quo Vadis’ etc.). In the ‘Rhapsody for cello and orchestra’, premiered by Pierre Monteux, the young composer found his own voice for the first time. According to Rózsa, the ‘Notturno ungherese’ is ‘a nostalgic night piece that harks back to my childhood memories in Hungary’. And the double concerto, the ‘Sinfonia concertante for violin and cello’, a late work, is one of the least ‘cinematic’ in his oeuvre and perhaps his most underrated masterpiece. Gregor Piatigorsky and Jascha Heifetz, who inspired him to write it, never played it, but Harriet Krijgh and Nikita Boriso-Glebsky did on this new album.

Harriet Krijgh, cello (tracks 1-3, 5)
Nikita Boriso-Glebsky, violin (tracks 1-3)
German State Philharmonic Orchestra Rhineland-Palatinate
Gregor Bühl, conductor

Harriet Krijgh
performs in the major venues in Europe, North America and Asia with orchestras such as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Sinfonietta and Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Harriet is also regular guest at international festivals such as the Heidelberger Frühling, Grafenegg Festival and the Schubertiade Hohenems. As “Prizewinner in Residence” of the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Harriet Krijgh made her mark on the 2019 summer festival edition in about 20 concerts. Ever since she annually returns to this great festival.

Harriet is an enthusiastic chamber musician. She enjoys the strong personal connection when touring with her regular piano partners Magda Amara and Lauma Skride. The annual summer festival “Harriet & Friends“ at Burg Feistritz (Austria) is one of her dearest projects, and will have its 13th edition in 2024.

The 2023-24 season will see Harriet appear with orchestras like the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Dutch Chamber Orchestra (twice in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam), the Hofer Symphoniker, and in a seven concerts tour with the Dutch Youth Orchestra, going to the Musikverein in Vienna amongst other halls. In recital Harriet will go to great halls such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam again.

Harriet’s discography also comprises eight discs, six of them released by Capriccio, featuring music by Kabalevsky, Haydn, Brahms, Rachmaninov as well as several French composers. Harriet also two CD’s for Deutsche Grammophon. The first disc featured works by Vivaldi, recorded with the Amsterdam Sinfonietta and their leader Candida Thompson. Silent dreams, an album of songs by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Chausson, Strauss and Glinka was released in September 2021.

From the 2024-25 season Harriet will release two CD’s per season on Capriccio in a project called “Harriet, Bach and Friends”. The project is centered around Bach’s solo suites for cello. Each suite is paired to an iconic chamber music work that reflects the intimate musical and human friendship Harriet shares at Burg Feistritz. Each CD program will also be performed live at multiple worldwide stages. At the end of the 2026-27 “Harriet, Bach and Friends” will be completed.

Harriet performs on a Domenico Montagnana cello (Venice, 1723) whose scroll was made by Stradivarius. The rare instrument is on loan to her by the Prokopp Foundation.

Nikita Boriso-Glebsky
was born in 1985 in Volgodonsk (Southern Russia). After graduating from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and completing his postgraduate studies, he studied at the Queen Elisabeth Musical Chapel in Belgium and at the Kronberg Academy. In 2010, he won not only the prestigious International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition but also the International Fritz Kreisler Violin Competition. He has also received important prizes at the International Tchaikovsky Competition, the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition, and the Montreal International Music Competition.

In 2019, Boriso-Glebsky was the first to record the previously unknown concerto by Eugène Ysaÿe with the Liège Philharmonic Orchestra and Jean-Jacques Kantorov. The CD "A Tribute to Ysaÿe," featuring Renaud Capuçon, Henri Demarquette, Pavel Kolesnikov, and Stéphane Denève, was awarded the Diapason d'Or.

Nikita Boriso-Glebsky has performed with many Russian and European orchestras, including the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, the Russian State Orchestra, the NDR Symphony Orchestra (Hanover), the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra (Poland), and the Lithuanian State Orchestra, under conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Christoph Poppen, David Geringas, Yuri Simonov, Maxim Vengerov, Klaus Mäkelä, and Agnieszka Duczmal. He regularly performs at many major European festivals, including the Salzburg Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, and the Beethoven Festival in Bonn.

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