List of compositions by Erik Chisholm

Erik Chisholm

This is a list of works by Scottish composer Erik Chisholm (1904–1965).

Ballets

• The Forsaken Mermaid, 1936
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1937
• The Earth Shapers, 1941
• The Hoodie Craw, 1948
• The Piobaireachd
• A Woodland Tale
• Polish Woman

Operas

• The Feast of Samhain, 1941
• The Inland Woman, 1951 (based on Mary Lavin’s 'The Green Death and the Black Death')
• Dark Sonnet, 1952 (based on the play 'Before Breakfast' by Eugene O'Neill)
• Black roses, 1954
• Simoon, 1953 (based on a text by August Strindberg)
• Unnatural Death, 1953
• The Midnight Court, 1954-61 (based on 'A Rhythmical Bacchanalia' by Bryon Merryman)
• The Canterbury Tales, 1961-62 (based on Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales')
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle, 1963 (based on Berthold Brecht's 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle')
• The Importance of Being Earnest, 1963 (based on Oscar Wilde's play of The Importance of Being Earnest)
• The Life and Loves of Robert Burns, 1963 (based on poems of Burns, and his correspondence with brother Gilbert and other contemporaries)
• The Wolflings

Dark Sonnet, Black roses and Simoon formed the three-act trilogy of Murder in Three Keys.

Orchestral

Symphonies

• Symphony No 1 In C Minor
• Symphony No 2, 1939

Other Orchestral Works

• Adventures of Babar
• A Celtic Wonder Tale
• Ceol Mor Dances : Version for Orchestra
• Chaconne, 1922
• Dance Suite, 1932
• Dunedin Suite, for strings
• The Enchanted Forest: Prelude for Orchestra
• The Freiris of Berwick
• From The True Edge Of The Great World: Preludes for Orchestra
• From The Western Isles, 1939, for strings
• Hebridia: Orchestral Suite Part 1
• March
• Pictures From Dante, 1948
• Prelude in G
• Rhapsody
• Six Celestial Pieces : No 1 - Sirius
• Straloch Suite, 1933
• Straloch Suite for Strings
• Sword Dance
• Two Pieces for String Orchestra, 1929
• A Woodland Tale

Concertante

• Piano Concerto No.1 Piobaireachd, 1937
• Piano Concerto No.2 On Hindustani Themes, 1948–1949
• Cantos Gitanos, for piano and orchestra
• Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, 1950

Chamber

One Player

• Sonata for Cello Alone, 1930
• Sonata for Solo Viola
• Sonata for Solo Violin, 1930

Two Players

• Gavotte, for violin and piano, 1934
• Morris Dance, for violin and piano
• A Scotch Tit-Bit, for violin and piano
• Sonata for 2 Violoncellos
• Three Miniatures, for cello and piano
• Three Short Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, 1960

Four Players

• A Highland Stream, quartet for flute, clarinet, cello and triangle
• Sorrow for a Queen (after Maeterlink) : Version for Brass Quartet
• Three Pieces for String Quartet : No 1 - Idyll
• Three Pieces for String Quartet
• Three Scottish Lullabies, string quartet

Five Players

• Ceol Mor Dances, quintet for four pianos and percussion
• Sonatina for Woodwind Quintet
• Three Dances, quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon

Six or More Players

• Double Trio, for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, violin, cello and double bass
• Allegro, for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, percussion, violin and cello
• Gipsy, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, two violins, viola and cello
• Sarabande, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and timpani

Piano

One Piano

• Sonata in A: An Riobain Dearg (The Red Robin)
• The Piobroch Sonatina
• Sonatine Ecossaise
• Night Song of the Bards, six nocturnes for piano
• All Quiet on the Western Front, a sonata in three movements
• Honeycombs; for the Children, pianoforte suite
• Perthshire Airs
• Highland Sketches
• G minor Sonatina, 1922
• Sonatina No.4
• Elegies Nos. 1-4
• With Cloggs On
• Collection of Piano solos, Ceol Mor, which reflect Highland bagpipe tunes known as Piobaireachd
  • Lord Lovat's Lament
  • Maclean of Cole putting his Foot on the Neck of his Enemy
  • Duntroon Pibroch
  • Mackenzie of Applecross
  • The Macgregors
  • The Chisholm
  • MacCrimmon's Lament
  • Lament for King James
  • Cluig Pheairt
  • No. 16
  • Too Long in this Condition
  • A Lament for the Harp Tree
  • Squinting Patrick's Flame of Wrath

Two Pianos

• Piano Concerto No 2 : On Hindustani Themes : arranged for 2 Pianos

Vocal

Songs with Orchestra

• Dismal is this Life for Me (tenor)
• The Minde's Melody (female chorus)
• Mungo (bass solo with chorus)
• O Son Of God It Is A Great Grief (tenor with piano)
• Pageant of Music for the People, 1939 (chorus)
• There Was a Time When I Thought Far Sweeter (tenor)
• Though You Like to Drink Your Ale (tenor)

Songs with Piano

• The Bee
• Blossoms
• The Blue-Bird
• Celtic Folk Songs
• A Celtic Song Book
• The Chailleach (Patrick MacDonald) [baritone]
• Cradle Song (Version 2), 1926
• Cradle-Croon
• The Donkey, 1923
• The Fairies, 1923
• Fragment (Lillias Scott) [soprano]
• Hert's Song (Lillias Scott) [soprano]
• I Arose one morning early (Patrick MacDonald) [baritone]
• In The Dark
• Innocence
• Johnnie Logie (Lillias Scott)
• Little Boney (1806) : The Sergeant's Song, 1926 [tenor]
• Love Poems (seven songs)
• Love's Reward (Lillias Scott)
• Meditation
• My Ocean Steed, 1923
• The Offending Eye, 1926 [high voice]
• Ossian's Soliloquy (Patrick MacDonald) [baritone]
• Prayer (Lillias Scott)
• She Calls Me Her Coal-Black Mammy
• Sixty Cubic Feet (Randall Swingler) [baritone]
• Skinny Minny
• Skreigh O'Day (Lillias Scott)
• Snail, Snail, Shoot Out Your Horn
• Songs
• There's a Guid Time Comin' Yet
• The White Blood of Innocence (Lillias Scott)

Unaccompanied songs

• Crabbed Age & Youth, 1926
• Cradle Song (Version 1), 1928
• A Highland Dirge [female chorus]
• I Want to Talk to Thee
• In Glasgow Here, 1925
• The Song of the Women, 1928
• Three Revolutionary Songs : Musical Recitative [male chorus]

Arrangements

• Paderewski's Theme Varié for two pianos
• Alkan's Symphonie Op 39 no 4-7 for a string orchestra
• Alkan's Concerto for Piano arranged for solo piano and string orchestra