Browse: Concertos, 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…