Debussy: 12 études - Ravel: Gaspard la nuit Joseph Moog

• Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918): 12 Études, livre I, L. 136:
• 1 12 Études, livre I, L. 136: I. Pour les cinq doigts. Sagement 02:49
• 2 12 Études, livre I, L. 136: II. Pour les tierces. Moderato, ma non troppo 03:15
• 3 12 Études, livre I, L. 136: III. Pour les quartes. Andantino con moto 04:33
• 4 12 Études, livre I, L. 136: IV. Pour les sixtes. Lento 03:52
• 5 12 Études, livre I, L. 136: V. Pour les octaves. Joyeux et emporté, librement rythmé 02:23
• 6 12 Études, livre I, L. 136: VI. Pour les huit doigts. Vivamente, molto leggiero e legato 01:31
• 12 Études, livre II, L. 136:
• 7 12 Études, livre II, L. 136: VII. Pour les degrés chromatiques. Scherzando, animato assai 02:04
• 8 12 Études, livre II, L. 136: VIII. Pour les agréments. Lento, rubato e leggiero 04:39
• 9 12 Études, livre II, L. 136: IX. Pour les notes répétées. Scherzando 03:03
• 10 12 Études, livre II, L. 136: X. Pour les sonorités opposées. Modéré, sans lenteur 05:14
• 11 12 Études, livre II, L. 136: XI. Pour les sonorités opposées. Modéré, sans lenteur 03:51
• 12 12 Études, livre II, L. 136: XIIPour les accords. Décidé, rythmé, sans lourdeur 04:02
• Étude retrouvée. Modéré (Realised. R. Howat):
• 13 Étude retrouvée. Modéré (Realised. R. Howat) 03:42
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55:
• 14 Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: I. Ondine. Lent 06:09
• 15 Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: II. Le gibet. Très lent 05:26
• 16 Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: III. Scarbo. Modéré 08:06
• Total Runtime 01:04:39

Info for Debussy: 12 études - Ravel: Gaspard la nuit

For his new album Joseph Moog has chosen an all-French programme featuring Debussy’s 12 Études and Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, one of the most challenging works in the solo piano repertoire.

Joseph Moog has established an enviable reputation as one of the most exciting virtuosos of our time with wide ranging repertoire that often takes him far off the beaten track. His ONYX recordings include concertos by Rubinstein, Moszkowski, piano sonatas by Tchaikovsky and Scharwenka and arrangements of Scarlatti sonatas by Friedman, Tausig, Gieseking and others.

Recipient of Gramophone Magazine’s Young Artist Of The Year award in 2015 the magazine wrote of him “Clearly he is already among the most brilliant of pianists.” In 2012 he was awarded the ICMA Young Artist Of The Year award and in 2014 he collected the ICMA best solo instrument award for his album ‘Scarlatti Illuminated’.

Joseph Moog, piano

Joseph Moog
Moog’s ability to combine exquisite technical skill with a mature and intelligent musicality set him apart as a pianist of exceptional diversity. A champion of the well-known masterworks as well as rare and forgotten repertoire combined with the ability to compose and arrange his own works, Joseph was awarded the accolade of Gramophone Young Artist of the Year 2015 and was also GRAMMY nominated for his 2016 recording pairing the Grieg and Moszkowski concertos.

Joseph is a regular performer at specialist piano forums such as the Ruhr Klavierfestival and the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, his passion for diverse repertoire also apparent from recent concerto performances which range from Jerzy Gablenz’ Concerto in D flat major Op. 25 with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, to Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the Hallé Orchestra.

Highlights of Joseph’s 2018/19 season include Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No. 5 with the Orchestre de Chambre du Luxembourg, Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and his debuts in Norway with the Kristiansand Symfoniorkester and Oslo Opera Orchestra. He will also return to Asia for his debut with the New Japan Philharmonic playing Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2, the work with which he made his Asian debut at the Hong Kong Sinfonietta in 2016. Further ahead Joseph returns to North America for his debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Joseph has earned a reputation as a formidable recitalist, and this season will make his debut at the Piano aux Jacobins in Toulouse. He has previously performed at the Wigmore Hall, Master Pianists Series at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Louvre Auditorium, International House of Music Moscow, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Philharmonie Haarlem, Societa Filarmonica Trento, Fribourg International Concert Series, Istanbul Recitals and the Eesti Kontsert Piano Festival in Tallinn. In North America Joseph has given recitals at the Frick Collection in New York, Portland Piano International, Washington Performing Arts Society, Vancouver Recital Society and Miami International Piano Festival.

Orchestras with whom Joseph has performed include the Philharmonia Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Orchestre Métropolitain Montréal, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux in Paris, Poznan Philharmonic, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Kaiserslautern, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Beethoven Orchester Bonn and Stuttgart Philharmonic. Joseph has also appeared at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Berlin Konzerthaus, Dortmund Konzerthaus, Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, Munich Gasteig, Meistersingerhalle in Nuremberg, Stuttgart Liederhalle, Mariinsky Theater Auditorium and Mikhailovsky Palace in St. Petersburg, Auditorium della Conciliazione in Rome and at international festivals such as La Roque d'Anthéron and East Neuk in Scotland. In Asia, Joseph has given recitals at the Kumho Art Hall in Seoul, in Tokyo and at the Singapore International Piano Festival.

Renowned conductors with whom Joseph has had the privilege of working include Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Thomas Sondergaard, Andrey Boreyko, Nicholas Milton, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Juanjo Mena, Christian Vasquez, Christoph Poppen, Pablo Gonzalez, Ari Rasilainen, Marcus Bosch, Toshiyuko Kamioka, John Axelrod, Fabrice Bollon, Theodor Guschlbauer, Petr Altrichter, Patrick Lange, Othmar Maga, Philippe Entremont, Markus Poschner and Michael Sanderling.

Joseph has an extensive discography and has received numerous awards for his recordings, as well as outstanding critiques from the international press. November 2017 saw the release of his eleventh recording featuring Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 2 and Strauss’ Burleske. It will be followed by his much-anticipated recording of Debussy's complete Etudes and Ravel's 'Gaspard de la Nuit' to be released in November 2018.

Joseph’s talent has not gone unrecognized, and prior to his Gramophone Award in 2015 he has twice been a winner at the International Classical Music Awards ICMA, in 2012 receiving the Award for Young Artist of the Year, followed in 2014 by the Award for Solo Instrumentalist of the Year awarded jointly with the celebrated pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja. Further distinctions such as Musikpreis der Deutschen Konzertdirektionen, 4 SuperSonic Awards, Advancement Award of the Rhineland Palatinate and Schleswig-Holstein Festivals, the Pianist’s Choice, Prix Groupe de Rothschild (Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad) and the Rhine-Mosel Musikpreis document the professional path of this young pianist, who was named a Steinway Artist in 2009.

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