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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 ...
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Cascade (Symphony Nº 2) : Concerto for orchestra / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Orkest
Bezetting:
piss 2fl 2ob eh 3cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3tpt 2trb-t trb-b tp timp perc hp str
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en orkest
Bezetting:
high 2222 2000 timp perc hp str
Hymne : voor bas-solo met orkestbegeleiding, 1941-1943 / [tekst] (P.C. Boutens), Willem Pijper
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en orkest
Bezetting:
bas 2333 4331 timp perc hp str
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en orkest
Bezetting:
bas 2perc pf str(6.6.4.4.2.)
compositie
Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Overige auteurs:
Knehans, Katarina
(tekstdichter/librettist)
Toelichting:
Cloud Ossuary began as a setting of my daughter’s riveting and poignant poem Bones and All. When I first read this work, I was seized with an immediate desire to set it to music. So, almost as immediately I did indeed get to work on it.
The Ossein Cage, composed after the two movements that follow it, uses the same harmonic architecture as both subsequent movements, while Breathe Clouded is actually an inverted and compressed version of Bones and All. Thus, the whole of Cloud Ossuary sits as three different guises of the same material and structural approach, though with clear and dramatically different surfaces.
Douglas Knehans