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Mystery Variations on Giuseppe Colombi’s Chiacona
Catalogue Number: TOCC0171 Chiacona per basso solo by Giuseppe Colombi, and 30 variations by contemporary composers Anssi Karttunen, cello 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, asking each 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 31 variations thus link the very beginning of the cello repertoire with music by some of the most distinguished composers of the present day and, with their distant echo of Beethoven’s 32 ‘Diabelli’ Variations, provide a showcase for the extraordinary resourcefulness of contemporary cello technique. Liner Notes (PDF) |
Track Listing, MP3 Downloads and Streaming Samples
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| 1 | Chiacona (late 17th c. ) Giuseppe Colombi, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello |
2:05 |
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| 2 | Anything Goes (c. 2010) Jouni Kaipainen, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
2:29 |
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| 3 | Polvo (‘Dust’) (c. 2010) Martin Matalon, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
1:05 |
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| 4 | Colombi Daydream (c. 2010) Roger Reynolds, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
5:55 |
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| 5 | Chaconne (c. 2010) Denis Cohen, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
3:31 |
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| 6 | bLeuelein (c. 2010) Jukka Tiensuu, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
3:36 |
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| 7 | Partite sopra un basso (c. 2010) Steven Stucky, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
1:26 |
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| 8 | Sarabande per un Coyote (c. 2010) Esa-Pekka Salonen, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
2:32 |
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| 9 | Something to Go On (c. 2010) Edmund Campion, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
1:37 |
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| 10 | Ciacconetta (c. 2010) Rolf Wallin, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
1:23 |
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| 11 | Paloma (c. 2010) Pablo Ortiz, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
2:19 |
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| 12 | Triple Antienne (c. 2010) Paavo Heininen, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
5:02 |
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| 13 | Still and Flow (c. 2010) Anders Hillborg, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
2:16 |
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| 14 | There and back again (c. 2010) Fred Lerdahl, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
3:39 |
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| 15 | …se sillan… (c. 2010) Veli-Matti Puumala, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
4:01 |
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| 16 | 50 notes en 3 Variations (c. 2010) Pascal Dusapin, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
1:48 |
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| 17 | Colombi Variation (c. 2010) Kimmo Hakola, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
3:28 |
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| 18 | Chiacona – after Colombi (c. 2010) Tan Dun, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
1:35 |
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| 19 | Tiny Colombi (c. 2010) Marc Neikrug, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
1:04 |
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| 20 | Locus on Colombi’s Chiacona (c. 2010) Joji Yuasa, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
1:24 |
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| 21 | Arietta (after Colombi) (c. 2010) Ryan Wigglesworth, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
1:21 |
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| 22 | Drammatico (c. 2010) Colin Matthews, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
1:23 |
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| 23 | Dreaming Chaconne (c. 2010) Kaija Saariaho, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
3:23 |
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| 24 | Preludio e Ciaccona (c. 2010) Ivan Fedele, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
2:18 |
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| 25 | Idée Fixe (c. 2010) Vinko Globokar, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
5:11 |
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| 26 | Variation sombre e libre d’après Chiacona (c. 2010) Gualtiero Dazzi, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
3:37 |
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| 27 | Idulla (‘germinating’) (c. 2010) Tapio Tuomela, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
1:24 |
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| 28 | A Fancy for Anssi (c. 2010) Betsy Jolas, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
2:06 |
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| 29 | A Variation (c. 2010) Miroslav Srnka, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
1:51 |
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| 30 | Anssimmetry (c. 2010) Luca Francesconi, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
2:31 |
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| 31 | Duello (‘Duel’) (c. 2010) Magnus Lindberg, composer Anssi Karttunen, cello (first recording) |
2:40 |
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Artists
Giuseppe Colombi, composer
Jouni Kaipainen, composer
Martin Matalon, composer
[credit: Patricia Dietzi]
Roger Reynolds, composer
Denis Cohen, composer
[credit: Isabelle levy]
Jukka Tiensuu, composer
[credit: Lehtikuva]
Steven Stucky, composer
[credit: Hoebermann Studio]
Esa-Pekka Salonen, composer
[credit: Katja Tähjä]
Edmund Campion, composer
Rolf Wallin, composer
[credit: Benjamin Ealovega]
Pablo Ortiz, composer
Paavo Heininen, composer
[credit: Sarah Vuorjoki Fimic]
Anders Hillborg, composer
[credit: Martin Chalifour]
Fred Lerdahl, composer
Veli-Matti Puumala, composer
[credit: Chess]
Pascal Dusapin, composer
Kimmo Hakola, composer
[credit: Sami Tirkkonen]
Tan Dun, composer
[credit: Nana Watanabe]
Marc Neikrug, composer
Joji Yuasa, composer
[credit: Tokyo Opera City]
Ryan Wigglesworth, composer
Colin Matthews, composer
Kaija Saariaho, composer
[credit: Maarit Kytîharju Fimic]
Ivan Fedele, composer
Vinko Globokar, composer
Gualtiero Dazzi, composer
[credit: Jean Christophe Dorn]
Tapio Tuomela, composer
Betsy Jolas, composer
Miroslav Srnka, composer
[credit: Thomas Dashuber]
Luca Francesconi, composer
[credit: G. Zucchiatti]
Magnus Lindberg, composer
[credit: Sara Vuorjoki / FIMIC]
Anssi Karttunen, cello
[credit: © Muriel von Braun]
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