Colin Currie - Hk Gruber: Percussion ConcertosColin Currie presents the first concerto album on his label, a pairing of works by the innovative Viennese composer, conductor and chansonnier HK Gruber. Written for Currie and dating from 2010, "into the open" focuses on tuned and pitched percussion. Gruber's emotionally vast music serving as a moving epitaph energetic, enigmatic and eventually desperate as the final sections gradually and dissonantly break apart the entire orchestral edifice. The

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many of Haydn's sonatas (95298) and early Romantic repertoire by Chopin and John Field (92202)

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Green recorded a couple of dozen very memorable albums for Blue Note in styles ranging from modal jazz to soul jazz

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