Gruber, HK
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HK Gruber: Percussion Concertos
RecommendedColin Currie (soloist), BBC Philharmonic, Juan José Mena, John Storgårds
With textures bursting at the seams, Currie’s performance matches the composer’s charisma. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gruber himself takes on the rôle of chansonnier with lip-smacking relish. Artmann's witty poems about Dracula, Superman, James Bond, Frankenstein et al are actually performed in English, but... —
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HK Gruber's Exposed Throat closes proceedings, an exhilarating display of contemporary playing techniques. All oddly compelling, and invariably entertaining. Beautifully recorded and produced,... —
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Gruber - Zeitstimmung
Martin Grubinger (percussion) & HK Gruber (chansonnier)
Tonkünstler Orchestra, Kristjan Järvi
Gruber performs the Artmann settings himself, in a fruitily rhetorical way that evokes the Viennese cabaret of the pre-war era… Martin Grubinger's performance of the percussion concerto is... —
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Gruber, HK: Aerial - Concerto for trumpet and orchestra, etc.
Håkan Hardenberger
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Peter Eötvös
…there's a deal of optimism to balance the angst in Eötvös's Jet Stream… The music is dense but intelligible, sonorous yet glitteringly incandescent… Hardenberger… is a breathtaking concerto... —
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CONTACT! with Alan Gilbert and David Robertson
Charlotte Dobbs, Robert Langevin, Mindy Kaufman, Alexandra Sopp, Eric Huebner, Colin Currie, HK Gruber, Lawrence Rock (contributor)
New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, David Robertson
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Gruber: Frankenstein!!, Perpetuum mobile/Charivari & Dancing in the Dark
H.K. Gruber, BBC Philharmonic
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Mozart & Wagner, with Hardenberger’s Gruber
Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet)
New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert
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This brass-band sequence is at once a relishing of the sonorous medium and a sly critique. HR Brass is the brass section of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, fine players alert to sophisticated... —
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