componist
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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Cloud Ossuary : Symphony Nº 4 for soprano and orchestra / Douglas Knehans; words by Katarina Knehans
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en orkest
Bezetting:
sop eh tpt 2perc hp str
De zieke buur : voor alt en orkest / op tekst van François Pauwels, Jeanne Beyerman-Walraven
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en orkest
Bezetting:
alt 4334 4331 timp 3perc cel 2hp str
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en orkest
Bezetting:
medium cel str
Coplas : (1935), (instrumentatie dec: 1942) / Henk Badings
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en orkest
Bezetting:
alt 2222 2200 timp perc str
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