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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."
Heinz Karl Gruber: Rough Music
I. Toberac
II. Shivaree
III. Charivari (pour Henri Sauguet, au tombeau de Monsieur le Pauvre)
Heinz Karl Gruber: Zeitstimmung (Time Shadow)
No. 1. golddrachen (gold-dragons)
No. 2. exempel der pyrofilie (an example of pyromanie)
No. 3. die zeit der fliegenden fische (the age of the flying fish)
No. 4. eine laus im uhrgehause (a louse in the watch case)
No. 5. caspar, ein meister (caspar, a master)
No. 6. wer in die holle kommt (he who lands in hell)
No. 7. der graf mit dem einglas (the count with the eyeglass)
No. 8. gewehr bei fuss (present arms)
No. 9. schnorrhabardian
No. 10. wenn du in den prater kommst (if you're going to prater fair)
No. 11. die sintflut (the deluge)
No. 12. mene tekel (the moving hand)
No. 13. fenster ins freie (the window into the open)
“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.”
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I. Toberac
