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
Guirlanden van muziek : voor strijkorkest, 1951 / Wouter Paap
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
Frailness in the Lead : Concerto for arpeggione and string orchestra / Kris Oelbrandt
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
arpeggione-solo str
Partita : per orchestra a corde, 1943 / Daniel Ruyneman
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
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