Colin Currie, Juanjo Mena, John Storgårds, BBC Philharmonic - HK Gruber: Percussion Concertos (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 252 Mb | Total time: 52:42 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Colin Currie Records | # CCR0004 | Recorded: 2013, 2015
Percussion concertos are more common than they used to be, but HK Gruber, whose background includes both avant-garde ensembles and mainstream orchestral playing, may be the only composer to have written more than one. Both of the works here are dense but quite entertaining. They were written some years apart; Rough Music dates from 1982-1983, while into the open…, had its premiere in 2015, in the BBC Proms performance recorded here. Rough Music is perhaps the easier introduction to Gruber's idiom, which includes a lot of percussion, even in other works.