List of compositions by Erik Chisholm


This is a list of works by Scottish composer Erik Chisholm.

Ballets

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

Operas

The Feast of Samhain, 1941The Inland Woman, 1951 Dark Sonnet, 1952 Black roses, 1954Simoon, 1953 Unnatural Death, 1953The Midnight Court, 1954-61 The Canterbury Tales, 1961-62 The Caucasian Chalk Circle, 1963 The Importance of Being Earnest, 1963 The Life and Loves of Robert Burns, 1963 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 BabarA Celtic Wonder TaleCeol Mor Dances : Version for OrchestraChaconne, 1922Dunedin Suite, for stringsThe Enchanted Forest: Prelude for OrchestraThe Freiris of BerwickFrom The True Edge Of The Great World: Preludes for OrchestraFrom The Western Isles, 1939, for stringsHebridia: Orchestral Suite Part 1MarchPictures From Dante, 1948Prelude in GRhapsodySix Celestial Pieces : No 1 - SiriusStraloch Suite, 1933Straloch Suite for StringsSword Dance
  • Two Pieces for String Orchestra, 1929
  • ''A Woodland Tale''

Concertante

Dance Suite, for piano and orchestra, 1932
  • Piano Concerto No.1 Piobaireachd, 1937
  • Piano Concerto No.2 On Hindustani Themes, 1948–1949Cantos Gitanos, for piano and orchestra
  • Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, 1950

Chamber

One player

Two players

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

Four players

A Highland Stream, quartet for flute, clarinet, cello and triangleSorrow for a Queen : Version for Brass QuartetThree Pieces for String Quartet : No 1 - IdyllThree Pieces for String QuartetThree Scottish Lullabies, string quartet

Five players

Ceol Mor Dances, quintet for four pianos and percussionSonatina for Woodwind QuintetThree Dances, quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon

Six or more players

Double Trio, for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, violin, cello and double bassAllegro, for clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, percussion, violin and celloGipsy, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, two violins, viola and celloSarabande, for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn and timpani

Piano

One piano

  • Sonata in A: An Riobain Dearg
  • The Piobroch SonatinaSonatine EcossaiseNight Song of the Bards, six nocturnes for pianoAll Quiet on the Western Front, a sonata in three movementsHoneycombs; for the Children, pianoforte suitePerthshire AirsHighland Sketches
  • G minor Sonatina, 1922
  • Sonatina No.4
  • Elegies Nos. 1-4With 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 The Minde's Melody Mungo O Son Of God It Is A Great Grief Pageant of Music for the People, 1939 There Was a Time When I Thought Far Sweeter
  • ''Though You Like to Drink Your Ale''

Songs with piano

The BeeBlossomsThe Blue-BirdThe Braw Plum Celtic Folk SongsA Celtic Song BookThe Chailleach Cradle-Croon Cradle Song , 1926A Dirge for Summer The Donkey, 1923 The Fairies, 1923I Arose one morning early In The DarkLittle Boney : The Sergeant's Song, 1926 MeditationMy Ocean Steed, 1923The Offending Eye, 1926 Ossian's Soliloquy Seven Poems of Love
  • * 'Love's Reward'
  • * 'Johnnie Logie'
  • * 'Skreigh o' Day'
  • * 'Fragment '
  • * 'Prayer'
  • * 'Innocence'
  • * 'Hert's Sang'She Calls Me Her Coal-Black MammySixty Cubic Feet Skinny MinnySnail, Snail, Shoot Out Your HornSummer Song The Prodigy There's a Guid Time Comin' Yet
  • ''The Three Worthies''

Unaccompanied songs

Crabbed Age & Youth, 1926Cradle Song , 1928A Highland Dirge I Want to Talk to TheeIn Glasgow Here, 1925The Song of the Women, 1928Three Revolutionary Songs : Musical Recitative

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