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...
Gruber - Zeitstimmung
Martin Grubinger (percussion) & HK Gruber (chansonnier)
Tonkünstler Orchestra, Kristjan Järvi
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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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It has been said about HK Gruber that "throws off labels as fast as pundits can affix them. Neo-romantic, neo-tonal, neo-expressionistic, neo-Viennese: he isn’t any of these things, so much as a sentient composer who keeps responding to whatever musical stimulus, be it highbrow or lowbrow, 12-tone or 7-tone, bitter or sweet, that comes his way."
Contents and tracklist
HK Gruber:
Rough Music
Work length26:16
- Martin Grubinger
- Tonkünstler-Orchester
- Kristjan Järvi
- Recorded: October 2004
- Recording Venue: Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
I. Toberac
Track length6:32
II. Shivaree
Track length10:32
III. Charivari (pour Henri Sauguet, au tombeau de Monsieur le Pauvre)
Track length9:12
HK Gruber:
Zeitstimmung (Time Shadow)
Work length38:24
- HK Gruber
- Tonkünstler-Orchester
- Kristjan Järvi
- Recorded: February 2005
- Recording Venue: Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
No. 1, Golddrachen [gold-dragons]
Track length3:53
No. 2, Exempel der pyrofilie [an example of pyromanie]
Track length1:56
No. 3, Die zeit der fliegenden fische [the age of the flying fish]
Track length0:25
No. 4, Eine laus im uhrgehause [a louse in the watch case]
Track length0:42
No. 5, Caspar, ein meister [caspar, a master]
Track length0:52
No. 6, Wer in die holle kommt [he who lands in hell]
Track length2:59
No. 7, Der graf mit dem einglas [the count with the eyeglass]
Track length6:33
No. 8, Gewehr bei fuss [present arms]
Track length0:36
No. 9, Schnorrhabardian
Track length6:13
No. 10, Wenn du in den prater kommst [If you're going to prater fair]
Track length3:26
No. 11, Die sintflut [the deluge]
Track length2:31
No. 12, Mene tekel [the moving hand]
Track length6:53
No. 13, Fenster ins freie [the window into the open]
Track length1:25
Work length2:46
- Tonkünstler-Orchester
- Kristjan Järvi
- Recorded: February 2005
- Recording Venue: Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
HK Gruber:
Charivari
Work length11:10
- Tonkünstler-Orchester
- Kristjan Järvi
- Recorded: October 2004
- Recording Venue: Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
Awards and reviews
May 2007
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 just as vividly characterised.
