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

Which interval do you like best? : from the Album for cello and piano / Louis Andriessen

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

Sonate : voor cello en piano / Jan Felderhof

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

Première Sonate : pour violoncelle et piano / Ignace Lilien

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