Gruber & Schwertsik: Works for trumpet and orchestra
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H K GRUBER / KURT SCHWERTSIK
Gruber & Schwertsik: Works for trumpet and orchestra
Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet), Mats Bergström (banjo) & Claudia Buder (accordion) / Swedish Chamber Orchestra, HK Gruber
[ BIS / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 3 September 2012
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Håkan Hardenberger returns to BIS with a disc of works written especially for him by HK Gruber and Kurt Schwertsik.
The Three MOB Pieces, composed in 1968, take inspiration from a diverse cross-section of music, including the neo-classicism of Stravinsky, the Beatles and the cabaret music by Hanns Eisler and Kurt Weill.
In each of the three movements of Busking the soloist plays a trumpet in a different key, with the accompaniment of an accordion, a banjo and strings.
Schwertsik's title for his Divertimento is deceptive as he adds both melancholy and defiance to a work that appears, on the face of it, to offer easy-on-the-ear entertainment.
"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 the trumpet in freer interplay...The other works on the disc are more occasional in tone and cast in a neo-tonal vein in which faux naif irony is rarely absent." Gramophone
Tracks:
HK Gruber: 3 MOB Stücke, Op. 20
HK Gruber: Busking
Schwertsik: Divertimento Macchiato, Op. 99
