Browse: Gruber, HK (composer)

The disc's centrepiece is HK Gruber's trumpet concerto Busking...The most involving passages, to my ear, are those in which banjo and accordion cut loose from their idiomatic moorings, joining... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2012 More…

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.... — International Record Review, April 2011 More…

…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... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2006, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The tour de force of Håkan Hardenberger's latest solo trumpet recital must surely be HK Gruber's thrilling Exposed Throat. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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... — Sunday Times, 28th October 2012 More…