Browse: Joseph Moog (piano)

Whatever scintillates and delights is here in super-abundance…from Moog everything sparkles and thunders. A virtuoso to the manner born, notes stream from his fingers like cascading diamonds,... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2015 More…

[Moog] gives a strong performance: rich and lavishly varied in sound, powerful, panoramically phrased with an impressive command of large-scale structure, and characterised with enough sleight-of-hand... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Moog decides to pair Debussy’s tricky Études with that other keyboard Everest, Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit. He meets all the technical challenges, and it’s an interesting listen. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Moog has one of those techniques that most pianists only dream about. His passagework fairly shimmers with prodigious effortlessness and his octaves are nothing short of dazzling. His fortissimo... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2019 More…

The young German virtuoso…brings crisp brilliance to its outer movements and plays the unusual 5/4 Larghetto with freedom. In naturally recorded sound, he shows how radiant textures in the Minuetto... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Moog makes easy sense of it all, his light, glittering touch deftly partnered by Nicholas Milton and his Ludwigshafen-based orchestra...it comes as no surpise that he chooses the more mercurial... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Joseph Moog and Kai Adomeit are fully attuned to the more percussive aspects of Rachmaninov’s writing. In the outer sections of the f inal dance, they batter the listener with high voltage dynamically... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Moog’s first entry [is] clear and unfussy, with enough subtle rubato to give the music shape and direction. The pacing is always effective, but there could be a greater dynamic range, with pianissimos... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Moog has the virtuosity to negotiate Reger’s finger-twisting demands, as well as the tonal resources for the chordal textures of the other intermezzi. If you like the idea of Brahms on steroids,... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…