Biber, Calianno, Guzmán, Leon, Saariaho, Shaw & Wallace: Sumna / Cahn-Lipman

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Label
New Focus Recordings
Release Date
August 5, 2022
Format
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Vincent Calianno, Edgar Guzman, Mario Diaz de Leon, Kaija Saariaho, Caro
    • PERFORMER
      Kivie Cahn-Lipman
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 05, 2022
    • UPC
      767223520042
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      FCR325
    • LABEL
      New Focus Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. Passacaglia (arr. for cello)

      Composer: Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

      Performer: Kivie Cahn-Lipman

    2. Neiges: I. Nuages de neige (version for 8 cellos)

      Composer: Kaija Saariaho

      Performer: Kivie Cahn-Lipman

    3. Sumna

      Composer: Mario Diaz de Leon

      Performer: Kivie Cahn-Lipman

    4. Neiges: : II. Etoile de neige 1 (version for 8 cellos)

      Composer: Kaija Saariaho

      Performer: Kivie Cahn-Lipman

    5. Shades

      Composer: Daijana Wallace

      Performer: Kivie Cahn-Lipman

    6. Neiges: III. Etoile de neige 2 (version for 8 cellos)

      Composer: Kaija Saariaho

      Performer: Kivie Cahn-Lipman

    7. In manus tuas

      Composer: Caroline Shaw

      Performer: Kivie Cahn-Lipman

    8. Neiges: IV. Aiguilles de glace (version for 8 cellos)

      Composer: Kaija Saariaho

      Performer: Kivie Cahn-Lipman

    9. Notes on the Deliverance Machine

      Composer: Vincent Calianno

      Performer: Kivie Cahn-Lipman

    10. Neiges: V. Fleurs de neige (version for 8 cellos)

      Composer: Kaija Saariaho

      Performer: Kivie Cahn-Lipman

    11. Remains (Hecho en México)

      Composer: Édgar Guzmán

      Performer: Kivie Cahn-Lipman


Sumna is the third solo album of Kivie Cahn-Lipman (founding cellist of the International Contemporary Ensemble, founder of baroque band ACRONYM and HiP Scottish ensemble Makaris, and co-founder of viol consorts LeStrange and Science Ficta). Here he offers first recordings of new cello solos written for him by Daijana Wallace, Édgar Guzmán, and Vincent Calianno, along with a modern classic by Caroline Shaw and a multitracked cello octet by Kaija Saariaho. Cahn-Lipman's passion for early music emerges both in the opening track (a fresh take on H.I.F. von Biber's solo violin Passacaglia, a seventeenth-century masterpiece), and the title track (a commission from Mario Diaz de Leon for unaccompanied viola da gamba).