title: List of compositions by Erik Chisholm
text: # 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
  