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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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Black City : Concerto for violoncello and orchestra Nº 2 / Douglas Knehans
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Orkest
Bezetting:
vc-solo dulc pf hp sopr(offstage) 2fl(picc) 2ob 2cl 2fg(cfg) 4h 2tpt 2trb-t trb-b tb timp 3perc str
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en orkest
Bezetting:
bas-bar 1111 1111 timp 3perc hp pf str
Quale Coniugium! : Version for alto or bass and orchestra / Willem Jeths
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en orkest
Bezetting:
voc 2fl(picc) 2ob(eh) 2cl 2fg(fg-c) 2h 2trp 2trb tb perc cel str
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en orkest
Bezetting:
bas 1010 0000 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