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
Cello Concerto : for cello, percussion and strings / Rembrandt Frerichs
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Cello and string orchestra
Scoring:
vc-solo perc str
Double Concerto : for cello, free soloist, percussion and strings / Rembrandt Frerichs
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Cello and string orchestra
Scoring:
vc-solo str
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Cello and string orchestra
Scoring:
cymb(perc) str(6.6.4.3.4.) vc-solo
composition
Mist Waves : Version for cello and strings / 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