William Beaton Moonie: Chamber and Instrumental Music, Vol. One: Music for Solo Piano
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
Listen To This Recording:
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Perthshire Echoes (publ. 1924)*
- I Hunting Tower
- II Aberfeldy
- III Balquidder
- IV The Lass o’ Gowrie
- V House o’ Gask
- VI Blair Athol
- I In a Quiet Strath
- II The ‘Kind’ Gallows of Crieff
- III Rowing Song
- IV The Goblin Ha’
- V Gaberlunzie
- VI The Country of the Caber Feidh
- No. 2: Pensée Fugitive
- No. 4 L’Epinette
- No. 3 Elegy
- No. 5 Ariette
- Arabesque
- No. 1 The Linn
- No. 2 Idyll
- No. 3 Gaberlunzie
- No. 4 Autumn
- No. 5 Rondino in G
- Reverie
A Scottish Chap-book, Book 1 (undated)
Five Pieces for Piano (undated)
Arabesque (publ. 1923)
Five Romantic Pieces (1955)
Reverie (publ. 1922)
ALL EXCEPT * FIRST RECORDINGS
MusicWeb International :
‘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