related works
Huis – Clos : for piano / Nestor Taylor
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Eight concertos, opus X / edited by Robert L. Tusler, Willem de Fesch
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra; Violin and string orchestra; Flute and string orchestra; Flute and string orchestra
Scoring:
str bc : str bc 2vl-solo : str bc fl-solo : str bc 2fl-solo
Concerto grosso : Opus III Nº VI / edidit Hans Brandts Buys, Pieter Hellendaal
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
Mogelijkheden : for Tenor Saxophone, Jazz Drums & String Orchestra / Renard Aust
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
sax-t drums 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