composer
Nestor Taylor was born to a very prominent Greek family, in Melbourne, Australia. He studied piano, harmony and counterpoint at the Athens Conservatory with George Diamantis and composer, Menelaos Pallantios.
related works
The Path of the Archangel : Elegy for strings / Nestor Taylor
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Instruments:
str
In Solitude : for string orchestra / Sarah Neutkens
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Instruments:
str
3 preludes voor snaren : = 3 preludie [sic] per corde, (1973) / Nico Schuyt
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Instruments:
str pf
Elegy : (from 'Symphony no. 1'), for string orchestra, 2004, opus 26a / Marijn Simons
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Instruments:
str
composition
The Path of the Archangel : Elegy for strings / Nestor Taylor
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