composer
Though first known through his collaboration with director Barrie Kosky in the Opera Australia production of his The Ascension of Robert Flau (1990), Douglas Knehans (b. 1957) is perhaps best ...
related works
Black City : Concerto for violoncello and orchestra Nº 2 / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
vc-solo dulc pf hp sopr(offstage) 2fl(picc) 2ob 2cl 2fg(cfg) 4h 2tpt 2trb-t trb-b tb timp 3perc str
Are you lost? : for violin and piano / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
pf vl
KAYA : for violin and piano / Maxim Shalygin
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vn pf
Adagio : opus 89 voor viool en piano, 1987 / Marius Flothuis
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vl pf
composition
Mist Waves : for violin and piano / Douglas Knehans
Description:
Mist Waves is a kind of loose chaconne whose veiled repetition of the initial eight bars forms the basis for the work. Sometimes this initial idea is repeated entirely, sometimes truncated sometimes expanded and all of the time at close interplay with the freely evolving violin line which acts as the expressive core of the work.
Mist Waves is really about land-based cloud and how this forms in waves sometimes thick and predictable and at other times lightening up and revealing more to us. This serves as a metaphor for me of a type of human consciousness and how things are known and unknown to us in mixtures—sometimes equal, frequently unequal—which creates the mystery and magic of life.
Douglas Knehans