Dreaming Chaconne (Variation on the Chiacona of Giuseppe Colombi)
- Instrumentation
- Cello
- Composed
- 2010
- Duration
- 3'
- Publisher
- Chester Music (Wise Music Classical)
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About this piece
Dreaming Chaconne is a short unaccompanied variation on the Chiacona per basso solo by the 17th-century composer Giuseppe Colombi. Saariaho wrote it in 2010 as one of 31 variations by different composers marking cellist Anssi Karttunen's 50th birthday; the complete set is published by Chester as Mystery Variations. In a note on the publisher's page the composer asks that it be played immediately after Colombi's Chiacona.
Technical overview
A short contemporary solo variation built on Colombi's Chiacona, best programmed directly after the original.