CD der WOCHE: Die Magie der Harriet Krijgh – 2015 10 11

Harriet Krijghs neue CD „RACHMANINOV“ (Label: Capriccio) ist CD der Woche beim österreichischen Radio Klassik Stephansdom. 
Sehen und hören Sie hier verlinkt die Besprechung der CD.

…Neben der Cellosonate sind der Aufnahme noch drei Kleinodien beigegeben. Die berühmte Vocalise, eine Élégie und die Romanze op. 4/3. Man ist wirklich verblüfft wie geschmackvoll und natürlich Harriet Krijgh diese endlosen Melodien zu genießen scheint. Ein Album für den anbrechenden Herbst, wo innere Wärme und die stille Sehnsucht nach rauschenden Meeresbuchten die finsteren Abende kürzer werden lassen. Angeleitet von Harriet Krijgh, einer wurderbaren noch so jungen Musikerin…

2015 11 15, Kurier (Austria)

Krijgh is a young cellist with an old soul

This past Wednesday Krijgh re-visited the small hall of the Concertgebouw. Together with her regular duo-partner Magda Amara at the piano she played Mendelssohn’s second cello sonata and Rachmaninov’s sonata in G minor. Striking was: her robust tone, a beautifully even stroke and sometimes a selfwilled fingering.But above all Krijgh differentiates with characterful playing: she has fully absorbed each note and developed a clear vision of her own.

She is not someone to obediently paint within the boxes, but a cellist with an old soul, an original musician of the type who does turn the pages of her scores, but subsequently plays on with closed eyes. From behind her serious facial expressions pleasure seeps through.That too makes it a beautiful experience to see her play.

2015 11 20, NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands)

Glorious escape from the world – Master concert with Neville Marriner/Academy of St. Martin in the Fields

…Not only did Elgar’s cello concert not dissolve with late blooming melancholy,  it also towered above all as an most impressive document of quiet, glorious escape from reality:  a critical contribution to this was made by the 24 year old Dutch cellist Harriet Krijgh, whose internalized, highly differentiated playing possessed an extraordinary charm – not less so in the encore of the Bach Sarabande.

2015 11 04, Cologne City Gazette (Germany)