related works
Annabel Lee : An English ballad for high voice and harp / Nestor Taylor; lyrics by Edgar Allan Poe
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
zang pf/hp
2e Suite : (Lyrische), voor 7-stemmig strijkorkest en piano-obligaat, opus 68 / Gerard Boedijn
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
pf str
Sinfonia : per archi, 1985 / Jan Rokus van Roosendael
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
Duodecimet no. 1 : voor 12 strijkers, 1979 / Hardy Mertens
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Other combinations of string instruments; String orchestra
Scoring:
3vl 2vla 2vladg 3vc 2cb
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