HK Gruber
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HK Gruber: Short Stories from the Vienna Woods
Piano Concerto - Castle In The Air
Frank Dupree (piano), Orf Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, HK Gruber
Both soloist and orchestra bring the necessary mix of precision, flow and stamina to this impeccably recorded programme, with the composer conducting...If you like music that manages to be both... —
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Special offer. Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
Wallis Giunta (mezzo-soprano), Jennifer France (soprano), Katarina Andreasson (violin), Benjamin Herzl, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Hk Gruber
[Giunta] does amazingly well to make the translation (WH Auden and Chester Kallman) both audible and engaging. —
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The new recording comes from concert performances at least year’s Salzburg Festival celebrating the composer’s centenary. It’s led with great gusto and accuracy by one of his leading pupils…The... —
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Diapason d’Or, Summer Issue 2019
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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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Deriving from concert performances in Vienna, all the works enjoy excellent performances and recording...A highly recommendable release. —
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Friedrich Cerha: 1. Keintate / Eine Letzte Art Chansons
HK Gruber (performer), Friedrich Cerha (performer), Ensemble die reihe (performer)
These brilliant recordings from 1984 and 1993 give a strong savour of the world of post-avant-garde Viennese ironic composition associated with Cerha and Gruber. —
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HK Gruber: Busking
Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet), Mats Bergström (banjo) & Claudia Buder (accordion), Katarina Andreasson (violin)
Swedish Chamber Orchestra, HK Gruber
These three concertos are very different from one another in character but they share strong sense of the capricious and fantastic and an infectious yet subversive good humour and rhythmic drive.... —
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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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Weill, K: The Threepenny Opera
Max Raabe (Macheath), Sona MacDonald (Polly), Nina Hagen (Mrs Peachum), Timna Brauer (Jenny), Hannes Hellmann (Tiger Brown), HK Gruber (Mr Peachum)
Ensemble Modern
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Schwertsik's Viennese blend of gentle irony, nostalgia and absurdism has made little headway in the UK. This beautifully played orchestra disc should help. —
