Mystery Variations on Giuseppe Colombi’s Chiacona

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It was the inspiration of Karttunen's wife to request a variation from 30 composer friends on Colombi's Chiacona. They responded with élan for the most part. — BBC Music Magazine, July 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 11th Feb 2013
Catalogue No: TOCC0171
Label: Toccata Classics
Length: 79 minutes

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Colombi: Ciaccona a basso solo

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Anssi Karttunen (cello)

Kaipainen: Anything Goes (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length2:28

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Anssi Karttunen (cello)

Matalon: Polvo (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

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Reynolds, R: Colombi Daydream (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length5:54

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Denise Cohen: Chaconne (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length3:30

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Anssi Karttunen (cello)

Tiensuu: Bleuelein (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length3:36

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Stucky: Partite sopra un basso (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length1:26

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Salonen: Sarabande per un coyote

Work length2:32

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Campion, E: Something to Go On (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

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Wallin: Ciacconetta (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length1:23

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Ortiz, P: Paloma (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length2:18

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Heininen: Triple antienne (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

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Hillborg: Still and Flow (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

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Lerdahl: There and Back Again (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length3:38

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Puumala: … se sillan … (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length4:01

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Dusapin: 50 Notes en 3 Variations (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length1:47

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Hakola: Colombi Variation (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length3:27

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Tan Dun: Chiacona (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length1:34

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Anssi Karttunen (cello)

Marc Neikrug: Tiny Colombi (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length1:04

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Anssi Karttunen (cello)

Yuasa: Locus on Colombi's Chiacona (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length1:24

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Wigglesworth: Arietta (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length1:21

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Matthews, C: Drammatico (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length1:23

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Anssi Karttunen (cello)

Saariaho: Dreaming Chaconne

Work length3:22

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Fedele: Preludio e Ciaccona (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length2:18

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Globokar: Idee fixe (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length5:10

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Gualtiero Dazzi: Variation sombre e libre d'apres chiacona (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length3:36

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Tuomela: Idulla (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length1:24

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Jolas: A Fancy for Anssi (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length2:05

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Srnka: A Variation (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length1:51

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Francesconi: Anssimmetry (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length2:31

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Lindberg, M: Duello (after G. Colombi's Chiacona)

Work length2:40

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Anssi Karttunen (cello)

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To celebrate the 50th birthday of the Finnish cellist Anssi Karttunen in 2010 his wife, Muriel von Braun, and colleague and countrywoman Kaija Saariaho wrote to a number of composers with whose music Karttunen had been working.

They asked each composer to write a variation on the Chiacona per basso solo by the Italian composer Giuseppe Colombi (1635–94) – perhaps the earliest work in the history of the cello.

The composers were not told who else was involved in the project, and Karttunen agreed to perform the music before he had seen it – hence the title, Mystery Variations.

These 30 variations thus link the very beginning of the cello repertoire with music by some of the most distinguished composers of the present day.

With their distant echo of Beethoven’s 32 ‘Diabelli’ Variations, the Mystery Variations provide a showcase for the extraordinary resourcefulness of contemporary cello technique.

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July 2013

It was the inspiration of Karttunen's wife to request a variation from 30 composer friends on Colombi's Chiacona. They responded with élan for the most part.

21st February 2013

Gathered together, the miniatures make a comprehensive and enjoyable compendium of contemporary cello techniques, in pieces that may stick close to the theme, or bear little relationship to it all; however they come, though, Karttunen plays them with his usual unflappable mastery.

Mystery Variations on Giuseppe Colombi’s Chiacona

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