William Beaton Moonie: Chamber and Instrumental Music, Vol. One: Music for Solo Piano

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Catalogue No: TOCC0602
EAN/UPC: 5060113446022
Release Date: 2021-11-05
Composer: William Beaton Moonie
Artists: Christopher Guild

The music of the Edinburgh composer William Beaton Moonie (1883–1961) is as good as unknown. This first-ever album devoted to his piano music reveals a figure downstream from Schumann, Brahms and Grieg, writing in a conservative Romantic idiom coloured by echoes of the folk-music of his native Scotland. Many of these pieces, indeed, are concerned to evoke images of the Scottish countryside or suggest aspects of Scottish history.

Christopher Guild, piano

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    Perthshire Echoes (publ. 1924)*

  1. I Hunting Tower
  2. II Aberfeldy
  3. III Balquidder
  4. IV The Lass o’ Gowrie
  5. V House o’ Gask
  6. VI Blair Athol
  7. A Scottish Chap-book, Book 1 (undated)

  8. I In a Quiet Strath
  9. II The ‘Kind’ Gallows of Crieff
  10. III Rowing Song
  11. IV The Goblin Ha’
  12. V Gaberlunzie
  13. VI The Country of the Caber Feidh
  14. Five Pieces for Piano (undated)

  15. No. 2: Pensée Fugitive
  16. No. 4 L’Epinette
  17. No. 3 Elegy
  18. No. 5 Ariette
  19. Arabesque (publ. 1923)

  20. Arabesque
  21. Five Romantic Pieces (1955)

  22. No. 1 The Linn
  23. No. 2 Idyll
  24. No. 3 Gaberlunzie
  25. No. 4 Autumn
  26. No. 5 Rondino in G
  27. Reverie (publ. 1922)

  28. Reverie

ALL EXCEPT * FIRST RECORDINGS

1 review for William Beaton Moonie: Chamber and Instrumental Music, Vol. One: Music for Solo Piano

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    ‘The entire recital is played with great empathy and genuine feeling: there is no sense of condescension. The recording is bright and clear.’

    —John France, MusicWeb International

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