Harriet Krijgh - French Album - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Abbey Simon and Leonard Slatkin's much-admired set of Rachmaninov's works for piano and orchestra makes a welcome return to the catalogue with this of Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 4 plus the Paganini Rhapsody. These classic performances originally issued on the Vox tag in the late 1970s were produced by Marc Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz whose recordings are considered by audiophiles to be amongst the finest available. Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3 with Simon and Slatkin are available on VOX-NX-3014CD.

Digitally remastered edition. Recorded between March and July of 1968 at Olympic Sound Studios in London, mixed at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, Beggars Banquet was the first Stones album produced by Jimmy Miller, and marks the start of what is considered their most prolific album era. Opening with the iconic hit InchSympathy For The Devil,Inch the album features many of The Stones' most memorable tracks, including InchStreet Fighting Man,Inch InchNo Expectations,Inch and InchParachute WomanInch. Beggars Banquet (50th Anniversary Edition) is housed in an overwrap of the InchinoffensiveInch wedding invitation art, which was initially issued as a replacement cover when the original intended album art was rejected. The landmark album has been newly mastered by Grammy Award winning engineer Bob Ludwig.

Harriet Krijgh is one of today's most exciting and promising young cellists. Her grace and expressiveness touch her audiences as soon as she is on the concert . Her discography also comprises of six discs, all released by Capriccio in the last six years, featuring music by Kabalewski, Haydn, Brahms, Rachmaninoff as well as several French composers. Krijgh is winner of numerous competitions. She was chosen InchRising StarInch of by the European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) and was artistic director of the Utrecht Chamber Music Festival in 2017 and 2018. With the present CD she made a long-held wish come true and presents two of the most popular cello concertos by Dvorak and Elgar.