Erik Chisholm: Scottish Airs [download]

For piano. Computer typeset score (14p) saved as pdf for immediate download.

Murray McLachlan suggests in his programme notes that this collection of Scottish Airs can be considered as Chisholm’s response to Bartók’s Improvisations on nine Hungarian Peasant Songs. Each movement is strongly characterised by material, which isobviously Scottish in spirit.

The nine Airs strike different moods: playful (scherzando in the third Air), humorous (seventh Air), grandiose (Airs one and six), to wistful (Airs two, five and eight).

They are all a delight to play and to hear.

Recorded by Murray McLachlan on his Erik Chisholm Piano Music CD