related works
Two Winter Fairy Tales : for piano / Nestor Taylor
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Cantus amoris : (opus 78), voor strijkorkest, 1979 / Marius Flothuis
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
Tema con variazioni : per violini e violoncelli / Henri Zagwijn
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str(vl vc)
Up and away : for string orchestra / Giel Vleggaar
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str(8.6.4.4.2.)
composition
The Path of the Archangel : Elegy for strings / Nestor Taylor
Other authors:
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