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
Cello Concerto : for cello, percussion and strings / Rembrandt Frerichs
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Cello and string orchestra
Scoring:
vc-solo perc str
Pièces d'un violoncelle : for violoncello solo and string orchestra / Andrzej Kwiecinski
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Cello and string orchestra
Scoring:
vc-solo str
Autumn in My Heart : Concerto for two violoncellos and string orchestra / Michael Fine
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Cello and string orchestra
Scoring:
2vc-solo str
composition
Mist Waves : Version for cello and strings / 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