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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:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Viool en strijkorkest
Bezetting:
str vl-solo
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Viool en strijkorkest
Bezetting:
str 2vl-solo
Pas de deux : pour 2 violons et l'orchestre à cordes, 2004 / Bernard van Beurden
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Viool en strijkorkest
Bezetting:
str 2vl-solo
compositie
Mist Waves : Version for violin and strings / 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