VWV 78 · Orchestral · 2025 ·
The Last Speaker
Threnody for Orchestra
- Catalogue
- VWV 78
- Form
- Threnody for Orchestra
- Scoring
- Baritone & orchestra
- Composed
- 2025
- Duration
- 11:38
A threnody for the last speaker of a dying language, the final voice in which an entire world of words will fall silent. Voss intones fragments of the vanishing tongue over a grieving orchestra, the music itself enacting the irreversible loss as the last phrases dissolve into wordless air.
From Orchestral Visions · NV-007
Performance materials +
- Forces
- Baritone & orchestra
- Tessitura
- Baritone solo (G2–F4)
- Materials
- Full score, Study score, Set of orchestral parts
- Availability
- On hire · Voss Editions
- Grade
- Advanced — professional ensemble
- ISMN
- 979-0-706078-546-7
