List of compositions by Erik Chisholm
# List of compositions by 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
* 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

* Dance Suite, for piano and orchestra, 1932
* 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
* The Braw Plum (William Soutar)
* Celtic Folk Songs
* A Celtic Song Book
* The Chailleach (Patrick MacDonald) [baritone]
* Cradle-Croon (Yeats)
* Cradle Song (Version 2), 1926
* A Dirge for Summer (William Soutar)
* The Donkey, 1923 (G K Chesterton)
* The Fairies, 1923
* I Arose one morning early (Patrick MacDonald) [baritone]
* In The Dark
* Little Boney (1806) : The Sergeant's Song, 1926 [tenor]
* Meditation
* My Ocean Steed, 1923
* The Offending Eye, 1926 (A E Housman) [high voice]
* Ossian's Soliloquy (Patrick MacDonald) [baritone]
* Seven Poems of Love (Lillias Scott) [soprano]
   * 'Love's Reward'
   * 'Johnnie Logie'
   * 'Skreigh o' Day'
   * 'Fragment (Lament)'
   * 'Prayer'
   * 'Innocence'
   * 'Hert's Sang'
* She Calls Me Her Coal-Black Mammy
* Sixty Cubic Feet (Randall Swingler) [baritone]
* Skinny Minny
* Snail, Snail, Shoot Out Your Horn
* Summer Song (William Soutar)
* The Prodigy (William Soutar)
* There's a Guid Time Comin' Yet
* The Three Worthies (William Soutar)

### 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
