related works
Invocation [ΕΠΙΚΛΗΣΗ] : for mezzo-soprano and orchestra / Nestor Taylor; on lyrics by Yannis Ritsos
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m 2fl 2ob eh 2cl 2fg tpt 2h trb-b timp 4perc pf hp str
De profundis : pour orchestre à cordes / Henk Klop
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
Riflessioni : tre pezzi per piccola orchestra d'archi, 1985-86, (revisione 1987) / Hans Henkemans
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
8vl 4vla 3vc cb
Concertino : voor orgel, strijkers en celesta / Henk van der Vliet
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
org str cel
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