“Gruber directs with conviction music he doubtless understands intuitively, while the BBC PO takes its many subtleties in its stride. Spaciously immediate sound, informative notes and a disc worth acquiring.” --Gramophone Magazine, November 2011
“Schwertsik's Viennese blend of gentle irony, nostalgia and absurdism has made little headway in the UK. This beautifully played orchestra disc should help.” --BBC Music Magazine, December 2011 ****
“Schwertsik's Viennese blend of gentle irony, nostalgia and absurdism has made little headway in the UK. This beautifully played orchestra disc should help.” --BBC Music Magazine, December 2011 ****
“Gruber ensures the best possible performances of music that proves very engaging... When listening there is an invitation to return to these appealing scores, and it’s difficult to think of them being better served than in these performance conducted by Gruber and captured in dynamic and vivid sound.” --International Record Review – September 2011
“Gruber is the BBC Phil’s composer/conductor, and Schwertsik (b1935) his lifelong Viennese friend and mentor, whose work he has tirelessly promulgated. These pieces well convey Schwertsik’s mercurial, ironic sensibility and his dextrous juggling of Romantic tonality and modernist impulse.” --Sunday Times, 4th September 2011
“The effectiveness of [Schwertsik 's] reconstituted language is shown in the three orchestral works by his close friend that Gruber conducts here. Nachtmusiken is the most recent: first performed by the BBC Philharmonic last year, it's a sequence of Viennese nocturnes, elegies and reminiscences of composers including Janácek, Mahler and Shostakovich.” --The Guardian, 25th August 2011 ****
“This disc of music by the quirky Austrian Kurt Schwertsik is a consistent joy...Schwertsik is far more than a skilled pastiche artist – ghosts from several centuries of Western art music drift in and out of these scores without overwhelming a distinctive and drily witty personality...Fantastic stuff, and sumptuously recorded.” --The Arts Desk, 15th October 2011
“The effectiveness of [Schwertsik 's] reconstituted language is shown in the three orchestral works by his close friend that Gruber conducts here. Nachtmusiken is the most recent: first performed by the BBC Philharmonic last year, it's a sequence of Viennese nocturnes, elegies and reminiscences of composers including Janácek, Mahler and Shostakovich.” --The Guardian, 25th August 2011 ****
“This disc of music by the quirky Austrian Kurt Schwertsik is a consistent joy...Schwertsik is far more than a skilled pastiche artist – ghosts from several centuries of Western art music drift in and out of these scores without overwhelming a distinctive and drily witty personality...Fantastic stuff, and sumptuously recorded.” --The Arts Desk, 15th October 2011
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