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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:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Cello en toetsinstrument
Bezetting:
vc pf4h
Sonate : pour violoncelle et piano / Hendrik Andriessen
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Cello en toetsinstrument
Bezetting:
vc pf
Adieu My Little Buckaroo : for violoncello and piano / Nora Crane
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Cello en toetsinstrument
Bezetting:
vc pf
compositie
Mist Waves : Version for cello 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.
The work is dedicated to brilliant cellist Tess Remy-Schumacher who inspired the idea of making this version of this work.
Douglas Knehans