Unpretentious but Satisfying
Piano music by Erik Chisholm -
heard by MICHAEL GRAUBART'... effortless technique ...'
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Four youthful suites and two later pieces arising out of Erik Chisholm's love of traditional Scottish airs and of Renaissance music bring to an end Divine Art's recordings of his complete solo piano music. This is the way the series ends, not with a bang, but not with a whimper either. In the words of John Purser's generous, informative and beautifully written liner notes, this final volume 'to a certain extent, represents a tying up of loose ends', but it includes the four Elegies, a concentrated and coherent group of pieces which no-one interested in Chisholm's compositions will want to be without.
The Elegies, whose dates of composition are uncertain, but which are undoubtedly mature works, begin the CD...
Copyright © 11 September 2011
Michael Graubart, London UK
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