related works

Unfinished Earth : Symphony Nº 3 for large orchestra / Douglas Knehans

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: picc 2fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 4tpt 2trb-t trb-b tb timp 3perc pf hp str

Poème : for cello and piano / Henriëtte Bosmans

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

Sonata : per violoncello e pianoforte / Henk Stam

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

A fourth circle : for violoncello (or violin/viola) and piano, 1994 / Hanna Kulenty

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Cello and keyboard instrument; Violin and keyboard instrument; Viola and keyboard instrument
Scoring: vc/vl/vla 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