Eric Chisholm: Music for Piano, Vol. 7

Elegies
Track 1. No. 1: after Dan Liughair [0.53]
Track 2. No. 2: after Tha mo ghruaidhean airpreasadh (first version) [2.12]
Track 3. No. 2 (second version) [1.50]
Track 4. No. 3: after Gur muladach tha ml ‘5 ml gun mhacnus, gun mhanran [2.15]
Track 5. No. 4: based on Dan Liughair [1.47]
Peter Pan Suite [959]
Track 6. I. Peter [2.17]
Track 7. II. Wendy [2.38]
Track 8. III. The Crocodile [1.35]
Track 9. IV. Tinkerbell [1.18]
Track 10. V. Captain Hook [2.11]
E Praeterita: Sonatina no. 4
Track 11. First movement [1.46]
Suite no. 1 [18.22]
Track 12. I. Caprice: Waltz tempo [3.02]
Track 13. H. Feulilet d’album: Andante [3.23]
Track 14. III.Scherzo [4.09]
Track 15. IV. Waltz [3.49]
Track 16. V. Moto perpetuo [3.59]
Suite no. 2 [23.21]
Track 17. I. Prelude:Presto [5.09]
Track 18. II. Caprice: Allegro scherzando [3.39]
Track 19. II. “Chopsticks” – Theme [0.45]
Track 20. Variation 1 [0.38]
Track 21. Variation 2 [0.25]
Track 22. Variation 3 [0.48]
Track 23. Variation 4 [0.22]
Track 24. Variation 5 [0.31]
Track 25. Variation 6 [0.33]
Track 26. Variation 7 [0.42]
Track 27. Variation 8 [1.36]
Track 28. IV. Intermezzo: Moderato sempre staccato [3.51]
Track 29. V. Finale: Jig [4.22]
Suite no. 3
Track 30. Ballet [6.08]

TotaI CD duration [68.45]

This is the last in the series of the complete solo piano works of Erik Chisholm, and to a certain extent, represents a tying up of loose ends, to be listened to in the context of the whole series. This is not to diminish the particular pleasuresd contained in the Suites, which were completed between June and August of 1923, when Chisholm was only nineteen, or in the unaffected childishness of the Peter Pan suite. but these are all light pieces, and Chisholm’s deeper thoughts are represented here only by the Elegies and the Fourth sonatina, itself no more than a single, though vewry fine, movement.

However, even within these limitations, the virtuosity and originality of much of Chisholm’s piano writing is very much in evidence.