Short Stories from the Vienna Woods

With over 80 years to his name, the ever-lively and intrepid HK Gruber is now an indispensable figure in the music scene – and not only in the Austrian one. As a composer, chansonniste and music mediator with constructive depth and his unmistakable, tongue-in-cheek humor, he always leaves his audience bewildered, moved and laughing, far removed from contrived, mathematical contemporary musical art. His genre-transcending works are listenable, vivid journeys through time across the incredible diversity of music history, and thus characterize his own unmistakable style. In Frank Dupree and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, he has found his sympathetic partners who know how to realize this very distinctive sound language optimally.