related works
Eleni : A Lyric Opera in Two Acts / Nestor Taylor; libretto by Fergus Currie
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
zang GK KK 2fl(picc) 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg 4h 4tpt 3trb tb-cb timp 3perc hp str
Symfonie voor strijkorkest : 1988 / Robert Dispa
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
Summer Music : for clarinet, basset horn, string orchestra and harp / Walter Hekster
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
cl bh hp str
Riflessioni : tre pezzi per piccola orchestra d'archi, 1985-86, (revisione 1987) / Hans Henkemans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
8vl 4vla 3vc cb
composition
The Path of the Archangel : Elegy for strings / Nestor Taylor
Author(s):
Taylor, Nestor
(Composer)
Description:
The Path of the Archangel was written in London in 1996, at a time of a more conscious return to a tonal idiom, with a strong lyrical character. The form of the work is fictional in that it unfolds gradually, following a free motivic development that is based more on associative correlations than on precise repetitions.
The solo role of the violin enhances the narrative character of the composition, with its ever-increasing engagement in the course of musical discourse. Thus, "pushed by its strange passion", the solo violin finally reaches the point of being detached from the rest of the orchestra and, now redeemed, "raised to the seventh heaven", it touches through its song "the midnight where sleep sweetly rests the worldly, under the mystery of infinite silence ", as the poet would say.
Nestor Taylor