Dreaming: Variation on a Chaconne by Giuseppe Colombi

Score title: Dreaming: Variation on a Chaconne by Giuseppe Colombi
Composer: Kaija Saariaho
More about the composer: Kaija Saariaho
Date: 2010
Instrumentation: Cello
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Program note: Dreaming Chaconne was written as one of thirty-one variations for solo cello on the famous Chiacona per basso solo by Giuseppe Colombi (1635-1694), each by a contemporary composer, to mark the fiftieth birthday of Finnish cellist Anssi Karttunen in 2010. The complete collection is published as Mystery Variations (CH77495). As my piece is a variation of Colombi's work, I would prefer it played immediately preceded by the Chiacona.
Kaija Saariaho May 2014