Mystery Variations on a Theme by Colombi

Description

A series of short pieces dedicated to renowned cellist Anssi Karttunen, presented during a concert in celebration of his fiftieth birthday in Helsinki in 2010. The concert was based around the Mystery Variations, a series of musical 'gifts' composed by a variety of Major composers of today, to be played by Anssi himself, and all based on Colombi's Ciaconna.

Contents:

• Chiacona - Giuseppe Colombi
• Something to Go On - Edmund Campion
• Chaconne - Denis Cohen
• Variation libre et sombre - Gualtiero Dazzi
• 50 Notes en 3 Variations - Pascal Dusapin
• Preludio e Ciaccona - Ivan Fedele
• Anssimmetry - Luca Francesoni
• Colombi Variation - Kimmo Hakola
• Triple Antienne - Paavo Heininen
• Still and Flow - Anders Hillborg
• A Fancy for Anssi - Betsy Jolas
• Anything Goes! - Jouni Kaipainen
• Idee fixe - Vinko Globokar
• There and Back Again - Fred Lerdahl
• Duello - Magnus Lindberg
• Polvo - Martin Matalon
• Tiny Colombi - Marc Neikrug
• Paloma - Pablo Ortiz
• ...se sillan... - Veli-Matti Puumala
• Colombi Daydream - Roger Reynolds
• Drammatico - Colin Matthews
• Dreaming Chaconne - Kaija Saariaho
• Sarabande per un coyote - Esa-Pekka Salonen
• A Variation - Miroslav Srnka
• Partite sopra un basso - Steven Stucky
• bLauelein - Jukka Tiensuu
• Anssin Ikiliikkuja - ituja - Tapio Tuomela
• Chiacona - After Colombi - Tan Dun
• Ciacconetta - Rolf Wallin
• Arietta (after Colombi) - Ryan Wigglesworth
• Locus on Colombi's Chiacona - Joji Yuasa