Mystery Variations

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Mystery VariationsOpis:Product Description 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 (163594) 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.

Review When the Finnish cellist Anssi Karttunen turned 50 in 2010, his wife, Muriel von Braun, and the composer Kaija Saariaho invited 30 composers whose works Karttunen had played to write variations on the Chiacona by Giuseppe Colombi, often regarded as the earliest piece composed for the cello. None of the composers knew who else was contributing, and Karttunen committed to performing them all sight unseen. The order of these Mystery Variations is his own; the shortest pieces last just over a minute, while one takes over five. The oldest composer represented is Betsy Jolas (born in 1926) and the youngest Ryan Wigglesworth (born 1979); though, as you'd expect, a high proportion of Finns is on the list, there's a truly international spread of names, from Argentina (Martin Matalon) to Norway (Rolf Wallin), the Czech Republic (Miroslav Srnka) to China (Tan Dun). 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. *** --Guardian, 21/02/13These 30 Mystery Variations make for a formally cohesive as well as expressively satisfying sequence which ought to be studied and absorbed by inquiring cellist and listeners. --IRR, May'13It 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'13Autor:Anssi KarttunenNośnik:Audio CDPłyt:Język: Data wydania: 2013Waga: 0.18 gramWysokość: 0.6 cmSzerokość: 5 cmDługość: 5.6 cmUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.