Composer: William Beaton Moonie
Performer: Christopher Guild
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0602
Release: 2022
Size: 2.6 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Perthshire Echoes
01. I. Hunting Tower
02. II. Aberfeldy
03. III. Balquidder
04. IV. The Lass o’ Gowrie
05. V. House o’ Gask
06. VI. Blair Athol
A Scottish Chap-Book, Book I
07. I. In a Quiet Strath
08. II. The Kind Gallows of Crieff
09. III. Rowing Song
10. IV. The Goblin Ha’
11. V. Gaberlunzie
12. VI. The Country of the Caber Feidh
5 Pieces for Piano
13. No. 2, Pensée fugitive
14. No. 3, L’epinette
15. No. 4, Elegy
16. No. 5, Ariette
17. Arabesque
5 Romantic Pieces
18. No. 1, The Linn
19. No. 2, Idylle
20. No. 3, Gaberlunzie
21. No. 4, Autumn
22. No. 5, Rondino in G
23. Reverie
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.