ListeN
“The Lieder of Loewe is lesser-known music for many, making Mogg’s advocacy of the composer in his newly released album both a timely and delightful debut. This survey of the ’North German Schubert’ is instantly engaging and communicative… The label has a strong track record of drawing attention to artists of great promise, and we will watch the next moves Mogg makes with great interest.“
Martin Cullingford, Gramophone (‘One to Watch’)
“Mogg’s baritone is free and true, and, relishing the colours and contours of the German texts, he projects richly at the bottom and with ease and clarity at the top. Mogg is a natural and engaging storyteller who allows himself, like one of Dickens’ narrators, to be enchanted by his own tale, slipping into his characters’ emotions as he relives their conversations or recounts their experiences. He’s not afraid to embrace the hyperbole and sentimentality in which Loewe, again recalling Dickens, is prone to indulge, and rightly so since they fuel the dramatic and emotional surge of the songs.”