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Joseph Moog, Nicholas Milton, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie – Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1 & Four Pieces for Piano Op. 119 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:02:07 minutes | 585 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © PM Classics Ltd.
One could lose oneself among the multitude of German orchestras, so active is musical life in that great musical country. But these orchestras’ many fusions can render reality somewhat opaque. This is the case with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie which offers us here a new recording of Brahms’ First Piano Concerto in D minor with Joseph Moog, coming on the heels of the recording of the Second, which was released in 2017. This orchestra, founded in 2007, was the product of a merger between the Saarbrücken and Kaiserlautern Radio Orchestras, whose total membership has fallen from 152 to 98 musicians today.
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Joseph Moog, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Nicholas Milton – Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 – Strauss: Burleske (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:37 minutes | 599 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Onyx Classics
Brahms was 48 years old and at the height of his powers when he completed his Piano Concerto No. 2. The Olympian B flat Concerto is, famously, not only one of the most technically challenging of all piano concertos to play but also one of the longest and a supreme test of the soloist’s technique and stamina. Not far behind it in terms of the challenges it presents the soloist with, is the early Burleske for piano and orchestra by Richard Strauss. Dedicated to Hans von Bülow as a thank-you present, Bülow however, refused to learn it, considering it to be ‘unplayable’. This may have had something to with the fact that Bülow’s hands could barely span an octave – an insuperable obstacle in a work that demands superlative, stamina-sapping octaves – but which begs the question why the composer should write something so physically unsuitable for his mentor. This is repertoire in which Joseph Moog excels
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Joseph Moog, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Nicholas Milton – Grieg & Moszkowski: Piano Concertos (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:24 minutes | 578 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Onyx Classics
Joseph Moog has established an enviable reputation as one of the most impressive virtuoso pianists of the younger generation. His catholic tastes embrace both the core repertoire and many works from its backwaters – works that were once warhorses, but have for no apparent reason fallen into unjust neglect. The Moszkowski piano concerto on this new CD is such a work. Overflowing with memorable tunes, the piano writing and indeed the handling of the orchestra marks this out as a very skilfully constructed work. Do not expect moments of profundity or an emotional roller coaster: just marvel at the fluidity and brilliance of Moszkowski’s writing. This is salon music of the highest order, and none the worse for that!
Moog couples the Moszkowski with one of the concertos in the repertoire whose fortunes have not waned – the evergreen Grieg concerto which never fails to impress the listener.
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Göttinger Symphonie Orchester & Nicholas Milton – Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95, “From the New World” (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:46 minutes | 381 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prospero Classical
The Symphony No. 9 in E minor, “From the New World”, Op. 95, B. 178, popularly known as the New World Symphony, was composed by Antonín Dvořák in 1893 while he was the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America from 1892 to 1895. It premiered in New York City on 16 December 1893. It has been described as one of the most popular of all symphonies. In older literature and recordings, this symphony was – as for its first publication – numbered as Symphony No. 5.
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