VWV 86 · Orchestral · 2025 ·
The Last Whale Song
Symphonic Elegy
- Catalogue
- VWV 86
- Form
- Symphonic Elegy
- Scoring
- Baritone & orchestra
- Composed
- 2025
- Duration
- 9:11
A symphonic elegy for the last great whale, the final song of a creature singing across an empty ocean for an answer that will never come. Voss's baritone carries the long, low call over a vast desolate orchestra, the music an immense grief for a voice with no one left to hear it.
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
- 979-0-706086-602-6
