A bhanarcach dhonna a’ chruidh/Ceud soraidh nam do’n Ailleagan/untitled/untitled/’s mi air cragan na sgura/Ossian an déigh nam Fion/Aisling/Lament for McGriogair of Roro/Jig
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This is the sixth volume in a projected series of eight. The first four volumes formed the basis of a recent feature on BBC Radio Scotland studying the piano music of Erik Chisholm, and narrated by Murray McLachlan. These performances have been hailed by one critic as one of the musical discoveries and revelations of the Twenty-First century.
Erik Chisholm (1904-1965) was the leading Scottish modernist composer and a promoter of modernist music of international significance. He was also a vital force in the revival of operas. He brought Bartók, Hindemith and Casella to Scotland, rescued Walton in a performance of Facade; and it was for him Sorabji deigned to perform his Opus Clavicembalisticum. He was a founder of the Celtic Ballet.
In his compositions, his knowledge and use of Scottish traditional music remains unsurpassed. He was the first composer to absorb Celtic idioms into his music in form as well as content, his achievement paralleling that of Bartók in its depth of understanding and its daring.
“Murray McLachlan is a pianist with a virtuoso technique and a sure sense of line. His timing and phrasing are impeccable, and his tone - full but unforced in the powerful passages, gentle and restrained in the more lyrical - is a perpetual delight” (BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE)
Erik Chisholm: Ceol Mor Dances
No. 1. Adagio
No. 2. Andante moderato
No. 3. Allegretto scherzando
No. 4. Allegretto grazioso
No. 5. Allegro moderato - grandioso
No. 6. Tranquillo - Allegro vivo - Poco adagio - Presto
Erik Chisholm: Denudin Suite
I. Prelude
II. Sarabande
III. Caprice
IV. Strathspey
V. Jig
Erik Chisholm: Scottish Airs
No. 1. A Bhanarcach dhonn a' chruidh
No. 2. Ceud soraidh nam do'n Ailleagan
No. 3.
No. 4.
No. 5. 's mi air cragan na sgura
No. 6. Ossian an deigh nam Fion
No. 7. Aisling
No. 8. Lament for McGriogair of Roro
No. 9. Jig
Erik Chisholm: Dance of the Princess Jaschya-Sheena
Dance of the Princess Jaschya-Sheena
Erik Chisholm: Wisdom Book
No. 1. He Comes in with his 5 Eggs and 4 of them Rotten
No. 2. Better Ane Bird in ye Hand than Two in the Busche
No. 3. None so Deaf
No. 4. Let him that's Culd Blow out the Cole
No. 5. As the Old Coke Craws the Young Coke Learnes
No. 6. Better Bairness Greet than Beardit Men
No. 7. Weaponis Bode Peace
No. 8. The Tortoise and the Hare
No. 9. He who Permits
No. 10. Quha can Sing sa Merrie a not as he - yt hes not Worth a Groat?
No. 11. Set a Begger on Horsbak and he will Run his Hors out of Breth
No. 1. Adagio