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Erik Chisholm's Violin Concerto, Dance Suite ect and Simoon on CD in 2016/2017

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« on: April 13, 2016, 05:54:41 pm »

Erik Chisholm's Violin Concerto and Dance Suite for Orchestra with piano, initially announced by the Erik Chisholm Trust for release by Hyperion, is scheduled to be recorded in October for release in 2017 accompanied by an orchestral piece Preludes from the True Edge of the Great World.  :D  I cannot confirm the label it will be issued on. 

The Violin Concerto, the third ever performance of which was broadcast by the BBC last June, is a superb piece albeit one that, for me at least, required repeated hearings to form this view.  Nonetheless, even an initial hearing was enough to disclose it was an unusual and fascinating piece. [A recording of the broadcast is in the British and Irish section of Downloads on this forum]

Chisholm's Opera 'Simoon', performed for the first time last June with its chamber orchestration, is to be released on CD in November.  ;D  Again I do not know the label but, I presume, it may be the Trust's own label.

A full score of Chisholm's 'Concerto for Orchestra', first performed in a 2 piano version last year, has been found.  It forms a triptych with the Violin Concerto and Second Piano Concerto as an orchestral work based on Hindustani music.  Nothing is said of a recording but, as it is probably Chisholm's major orchestral piece, a future recording would seem to be a possibility.

See:  http://erikchisholm.com/pdf/spring-2016.pdf
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« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2016, 09:46:16 pm »

By way of update, according to the Summer Newsletter of the Erik Chisholm Trust, the Violin Concerto, Dance Suite for Piano and Orchestra and five of the Preludes from the True Edge of the Great World will be recorded at Glasgow City Hall on 5th and 6th October with Martyn Brabbins conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.  Matthew Trusler - who gave the third performance of the Violin Concerto in April 2015 broadcast by BBC Radio 3 - is the soloist in the Violin Concerto.  Danny Driver, who I understand is a former winner of an Erik Chisholm Prize at the Scottish International Piano Competition and who recorded the Piano Concertos on Hyperion, is the soloist in the Dance Suite.

The CD is expected to be issued by Hyperion in 2017 and is funded by the Erik Chisholm Trust with assistance from the RVW Trust.

Dundonnell previously informed us that Hyperion withdrew from the earlier intention to record the Violin Concerto and Dance Suite due to the recording costs and the modest sales of the Piano Concertos CD.  Presumably, the financial assistance of the Trusts in funding the recording is what has led to a change of mind by Hyperion.

A possible caveat - in the concluding paragraph of the newsletter it mentions the financial undertaking involved in funding the promotion of Chisholm's music and states this is 'still ongoing with the Violin Concerto recording and CD release' .

See: http://www.erikchisholm.com/pdf/summer-newsletter-2016.pdf

Chisholm's one-act opera Simoon is to be issued on the Delphian label on 18 November 2016.
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« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2016, 11:26:51 pm »

I think that the phrase "financial assistance" in relation to the funding made available by the two Trusts probably underplays their actual contribution to the total costs involved.
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« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2016, 09:53:14 am »

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/futurereleases.php?composer=chisholm&work=&performer=&medium=all&label=&cat=

Simoon on its way....
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« Reply #4 on: October 22, 2016, 10:04:36 am »

This is interesting. Simoon is based on Strindberg's last play, and a very weird play it is too. It was translated into English by Louis Munzner in the 1970s and I actually took part in the first performance, directed by Andy Hinds.
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« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2016, 04:38:46 pm »


The Violin Concerto was recorded in Glasgow City Hall on 5th October [see: https://www.facebook.com/bbcsso/photos/a.88453419238.80868.51642124238/10154983516134239/?type=3&theater ]

The Dance Suite was scheduled to be recorded on the same day and presumably was [see: http://www.dannydriver.com/artist.php?view=cal&cid=31033 ]
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« Reply #6 on: October 24, 2016, 10:59:06 pm »


Ordered!

A soundbite from the Opera can be heard at: https://twitter.com/delphianrecords/status/761533988641071104
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« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2016, 04:02:39 pm »

My CD of Simoon arrived yesterday. ;D  My expectations were of an interesting piece, by a fascinating and admirable composer, most likely worth hearing but not likely to be memorable nor a piece I was likely to return to often.  My first impressions met my expectations.  However, several subsequent hearings have caused me to revise my opinion upwards. 

Although the orchestra is small it exceeds by quite a distance the forces of typical chamber operas, for example those of Menotti (The Medium, The Telephone) and Britten (The Rape of Lucretia, Albert Herring, The Turn of the Screw) which call for 13 or 14 instruments/players. Simoon calls for about 27 instruments/players including a string section of 14, 2 pianos, celeste, glockenspiel, xylophone, 2 tubular bells and harmonium.  The orchestral textures and colouring contribute greatly to the overall impact of the opera which features three main roles - soprano, tenor and baritone plus an incidental role for a fourth singer (soprano) - making one wonder how the opera could ever have seemed dramatically effective in its piano version.  The recorded performance was a premiere of the orchestral score.  The singing is effective and quite elaborate.  The music is modernist and quite dissonant, but thankfully not Schoenbergian, and there are themes apparently deriving from Hindustani music/ragas.  The opera lasts just under 50 minutes and, for me, proves to be a wholly worthwhile listening experiencing.  Those who have responded favourably to Chisholm’s ‘Hindustani’ Piano Concerto and Violin Concerto will most probably respond similarly to Simoon.  I anticipate returning to this CD often and it has made me want to explore again the only other Chisholm operas available (in live recordings) Dark Sonnet and The Pardoner’s Tale   (see https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCopLXkspvvcnZ0NNBrmspCA).

Although a live performance one would not know this from the sound which is excellent.  A copy of the Booklet can be downloaded from: http://i-classical.com/album.html?/chisholm-simoon-live-music-co-operative-scotland/0801918341397
 
I have also been listening to Chisholm’s ten surviving Preludes from the True Edge of the Great World (the latter expression being a reference to the Hebridean Islands) in their original piano version.  They are evocative meditations/improvisations on traditional Gaelic melodies.  The Chisholm Trust have informed us that five of those, in their orchestral guise, are to feature in the forthcoming Hyperion CD.  This will be a most welcome addition to Pictures from Dante, the Second (‘Ossian’) Symphony, The Adventures of Babar (see:  http://www.erikchisholm.com/archiverecordings.php) and Concertos which are what we have to date of Chisholm’s orchestral pieces.

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« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2017, 03:35:41 pm »


Recent Opera News review of Simoon:
https://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2017/5/Recordings/CHISHOLM__Simoon.html
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