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Tempest-Concerto for Flute and Orchestra: 1. Ostro 07:03
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Tempest-Concerto for Flute and Orchestra: 2. Mistral...Funerailles 06:49
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Tempest-Concerto for Flute and Orchestra: 3. Etesian 06:49
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Unfinished Earth: 1. Tempering 12:06
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Unfinished Earth: 2. Eternal Ocean 11:55
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Unfinished Earth: 3. Tearing Drift 08:13
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WINNER OF FIVE INTERNATIONAL RECORDING AWARDS

"... the sounds of nature course through the orchestral pieces on his latest album "Unfinished Earth," with a primitive force and melodic insistence that recall Stravinsky."
—The New Yorker

**** "...wonderfully orchestrated... dynamic and endlessly evolving..."
—BBC Music Magazine

“… an exciting and truly spectacular recording.”
—Remy Frank, Pizzicato

These works are driven: romantic yet thorny, expressive with edge, concisely expansive with high-wire drama and keening melodies. A brilliant flute concerto—TEMPEST— with virtuoso flute soloist Gareth Davies of the London Symphony Orchestra.

A dense, passionate and personal three movement orchestra work—UNFINISHED EARTH—teeming with heavy emotional edge and tenuous line.

Reminiscent of Lutosławski, Stravinsky and Mahler, this is powerful contemporary music from a new individual voice, with brilliant and exacting performances by the Brno Philharmonic and conductor Mikel Toms.

These two works represent different views of how the external metaphors of wind and earth may be shaped to reflect the more intimate internal worlds of the human heart and mind.

Tempest, my flute concerto, was shaped by the thought of wind—such an essential element to the flute and flute playing—and how, in the natural world, this courses across the planet in different ways from benign to hostile. The three movements reflect different wind patterns found around the globe and served as a departure point for a three movement work cast in a quasi-classical frame of fast-slow-fast structure. Each movement engages a message, I hope, beyond mere tone painting, to reflect deeper aspects of the human condition, the human experience, thought, reflection, psychology and emotion.

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released April 6, 2018

Jaroslav Zouhar, Recording Engineer
Silas Brown, Mix/Mastering Engineer
Josephine McLachlan, art design and layout
Douglas Knehans, Producer

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Douglas Knehans Cincinnati, Ohio

Knehans has received awards from the American Music Center, the NEA, Opera Australia, The Cannes Film Festival, Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, The National Symphony Orchestra, and many others. His music has been praised by The Washington Post as “beautiful” and that “tells an exciting story;” and by The Miami Herald as “wildly inventive;" by Fanfare Magazine as "...hauntingly beautiful..." ... more

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