VWV 69 · Duet · 2024 ·
While I Keep Singing
Elegiac Duet — with Isabella Laurent
- Catalogue
- VWV 69
- Form
- Elegiac Duet
- Scoring
- Baritone, soprano & orchestra
- Composed
- 2024
- Duration
- 7:01
An elegiac duet between a widow and the ghost of her husband, who can stay only as long as she keeps singing. Her line lengthens and clings while his thins toward silence, the two voices straining to hold a contact that the dawn must inevitably break.
From The Laurent Duets · NV-009
Performance materials +
- Forces
- Baritone, soprano & 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
- 979-0-706069-483-7
