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
Luminous Sea : Concerto for viola and orchestra / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Viola and Orchestra
Scoring:
vla-solo 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h tpt-picc 2tpt 2trb-t trb-b tb timp 2perc str
Sonata : per violoncello e pianoforte, 1928 / [rev. in 2008 by Otto Ketting], Piet Ketting
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Cello and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vc pf
Fast waves / Slow waves : from the Album for cello and piano / Wilbert Bulsink
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Cello and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vc pf
New York Rain : for violoncello and piano / Michael Fine
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Cello and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
vc pf
composition
Mist Waves : Version for cello 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.
The work is dedicated to brilliant cellist Tess Remy-Schumacher who inspired the idea of making this version of this work.
Douglas Knehans