Joseph Moog – Reger: Piano Concerto, 6 Intermezzi (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:01:17 minutes | 565 MB | Genre: Classical
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Joseph Moog, after recording both Brahms piano concertos for Onyx Classics, turns his attention to one of the most demanding and forbidding of piano concertos. Max Reger’s concerto dates from 1910. This rugged giant of a concerto displays all Reger’s formidable skill at using large orchestral forces with great clarity, making the piano part of the orchestral fabric. The concerto has much music that is both brilliant and poetic as well as passages of great turmoil. The album includes the 6 Intermezzi, which display a different facet of this complex composer. These are delightful pieces, tender, romantic with much poetry.
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Joseph Moog – Debussy: 12 études – Ravel: Gaspard la nuit (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:04:47 minutes | 543 MB | Genre: Classical
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German pianist Joseph Moog (born in 1987), recipient of the prestigious Young Artist of the Year award at the 2012 and 2015 Gramophone Classical Music Awards as well as 2014 Solo Instrumentalist for his album “Scarlatti Illuminated”, has led a stunning fifteen-year international career that has led him to perform on the world’s greatest stages accompanied by excellent orchestras. His repertoire includes the great classical repertoire, romanticism and 20th century as well as rarities that have become his trademark (rather than a simple specialisation). He has tackled works from the likes of Leopold Godowsky, Ferruccio Busoni, Anton Rubinstein, Moritz Moszkowski and Ignaz Friedman, some of the most significant virtuoso-composers of their time. Here, we find him deep in exploration of the French repertoire with Debussy’s twelve Études, completed by a thirteenth one which was recently discovered in the composer’s drafts and duly finished by Roy Howat. The album also features an absolute essential, Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, which Moog performs with great clarity. It’s as if the preceding Études had warmed up his fingers as well as his mind and naturally spilled over into the famous triptych.
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Joseph Moog – Chopin: Complete Sonatas (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:17:02 minutes | 680 MB | Genre: Classical, Piano
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Earning a Grammy nomination and Gramophone Magazine’s Young Artist of the Year award in 2015, Joseph Moog is one of the finest young virtuoso pianists of our time. On this release, Moog turns to Chopin’s piano sonatas. Piano Sonata No.1 is a rarely heard work. It shows the young composer as yet untouched by the influences of Beethoven and the other great composer-pianists of the period. It owes more to Mozart and the late classical period. By the time he composed the Piano Sonata No.2, Chopin had fully absorbed the early romanticism of Hummel and Field, and developed a strong distinctive voice. The slow movement, a funeral march, is one of the most famous pieces of music ever composed. Piano Sonata No.3 is a masterpiece, one of the greatest works for piano of the 19th century, and displays the total mastery Chopin had achieved by the end of his tragically short life. This Onyx recording represents yet another outstanding achievement by Joseph Moog.
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Joseph Moog – Brahms & Schumann (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:07:22 minutes | 592 MB | Genre: Classical
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Paganini’s Caprices have exerted a mesmeric attraction for composers since their publication in 1820 (they were composed between 1802 – 1817). Liszt, Chopin, Berlioz, Rachmaninov to name a few. Schumann’s two sets of Etudes were the result of hearing Paganini play in Frankfurt in April 1830. These early compositions are comparatively rare in performance – they were composed at the same time as the Abegg Variations Op.1, Papillons Op.2, Davidsbündlertänze Op.6, the Toccata Op.7 and the famous Carnaval Op.9. From these early works to his last days in the asylum at Endenich where he composed a piano accompaniment to the 24th Caprice, Paganini was still working his magic on Schumann.
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