IDAGIO | Moonie: Instrumental & Chamber Music, Vol. 1 – Music for Solo Piano 5060113446022

Featuring

Christopher Guild
William Beaton Moonie

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Performer Biography

Christopher Guild, the pianist on this recording, is known for his work on piano music from Scotland and the British Isles, and has performed at prestigious UK venues like Wigmore Hall.

Composer Biography

Moonie studied at the Frankfurt Hochschule under Iwan Knorr from 1905 to 1908, at the same time as the 'Frankfurt Group' of composers like Percy Grainger, though there is no evidence he knew them.

Composer Biography

Moonie owned a music-publishing house, Bruce, Clements & Co., which published many of his own works, as well as some by his father and other composers.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Stylistically, Moonie's piano music is strikingly conservative for the early twentieth century, owing more to Romanticism and composers like Mendelssohn and Max Bruch than to European modernism.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Moonie's work often focused on his native Scotland, with tone-poems of the landscape, settings of Scottish poets, and homages to literary figures like Sir Walter Scott.

Recording & Production

This recording is only the second ever to be devoted to the music of W. B. Moonie, a Scottish composer.

Composer Biography

William Beaton Moonie (1883-1961) was a Scottish composer from Edinburgh, whose output included operas, symphonic and choral works, songs, and chamber music.