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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
Tema con variazioni : per violine e pianoforte, aug. 1938 / Koos van de Griend
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Viool en toetsinstrument
Bezetting:
vl pf
Distrazioni : per violino e pianoforte / Robert de Roos
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Viool en toetsinstrument
Bezetting:
vl pf
Aria : voor viool en piano, 1937 / Jan Felderhof
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Viool en toetsinstrument
Bezetting:
vl pf
compositie
Mist Waves : for violin and piano / Douglas Knehans
Toelichting:
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.
Douglas Knehans