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.

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

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

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

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