related works
Jigsaw : Fantasia Concertante for piano and orchestra / Nestor Taylor
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pf-solo 2fl(picc) 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2tpt 3trb tb timp 4perc 2hp str
Larghetto for strings : (string orchestra), 1987 / Simon Pluister
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
Partita : per orchestra a corde, 1943 / Daniel Ruyneman
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
Tristium : for string orchestra / Svyatoslav Lunyov
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
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