WHALE SPIRIT RISING is a collection of three pieces that are elegies in sentiment. They are performed by I Musici de Montrￃﾩal and conducted by Yuli Turovsky. The title track, 'Whale Spirit Rising', by Roddy Elias, features the baritone sax representing the voice of the whale-spirit. The solo voice laments over a low, gently rolling string ostinato, becoming more elaborate as time goes on. Only a small portion of the solo part, played by jazz musician David Mott, is actually composed, with the rest being free improvisation flavored with whale-song. Italian-born Marjan Mozetich's 'Fantasia...sul linguaggio perduto'--literally 'Fantasia on a lost language'--is a sort of elegy to the sounds of the late Romantic Era. Mozetich's new-romantic lyricism has a contemporary flavor in its energetic repeating rhythms, but the colors of the lush string writing harken back to an earlier sound-world, reminiscent of Tchaikovsky. Keith Jarrett, of jazz fame, whose works for the concert platform are often overlooked, wrote Elegy for Violin and String Orchestra for his grandmother. This is harmonically more adventurous than the other pieces, but the violin solo, played by Eleonora Turovsky (wife of the conductor), would fit in with a work by Samuel Barber.

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WHALE SPIRIT RISING is a collection of three pieces that are elegies in sentiment. They are performed by I Musici de Montrￃﾩal and conducted by Yuli Turovsky. The title track, 'Whale Spirit Rising', by Roddy Elias, features the baritone sax representing the voice of the whale-spirit. The solo voice laments over a low, gently rolling string ostinato, becoming more elaborate as time goes on. Only a small portion of the solo part, played by jazz musician David Mott, is actually composed, with the rest being free improvisation flavored with whale-song. Italian-born Marjan Mozetich's 'Fantasia...sul linguaggio perduto'--literally 'Fantasia on a lost language'--is a sort of elegy to the sounds of the late Romantic Era. Mozetich's new-romantic lyricism has a contemporary flavor in its energetic repeating rhythms, but the colors of the lush string writing harken back to an earlier sound-world, reminiscent of Tchaikovsky. Keith Jarrett, of jazz fame, whose works for the concert platform are often overlooked, wrote Elegy for Violin and String Orchestra for his grandmother. This is harmonically more adventurous than the other pieces, but the violin solo, played by Eleonora Turovsky (wife of the conductor), would fit in with a work by Samuel Barber.