related works

Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and orchestra
Scoring: sop eh tpt 2perc hp str

Sonatina in modo antiquo : per violoncello e pianoforte, 1939 / Daniel Ruyneman

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Cello and keyboard instrument
Scoring: vc pf

Zeven zielige zweetmeeuwen : uit het Album voor cello en piano / René Samson

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Cello and keyboard instrument
Scoring: vc pf

Night Music : from the Album for cello and piano / Daan Manneke

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Cello and keyboard instrument
Scoring: vc pf

composition

Mist Waves : Version for cello and piano / Douglas Knehans

Other authors:
Knehans, Douglas (Composer)
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.
The work is dedicated to brilliant cellist Tess Remy-Schumacher who inspired the idea of making this version of this work.
Douglas Knehans