Chisholm: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 – review

Danny Driver (piano), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Macdonald (Hyperion)Erik Chisholm (1904-65) was a remarkable Scotsman, an accomplished composer, pianist and organist who conducted the British premieres of Mozart's Idomeneo and Berlioz's The Trojans in Glasgow and brought Hindemith, Szymanowski and Bartók to the city (Bartók took home a bagpipe chanter). "McBartok", as Chisholm became known, based his first piano concerto on the classical music of the pipes, and highly attractive it is, t...

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