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
  • 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
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