componist
Nestor Taylor was born to a very prominent Greek family, in Melbourne, Australia. He studied piano, harmony and counterpoint at the Athens Conservatory with George Diamantis and composer, Menelaos Pallantios.
gerelateerde werken
Lux Aeterna : Version for female voice, piano and string orchestra / Nestor Taylor
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en instrument(en)
Bezetting:
zang pf str
Nocturnes : voor strijkorkest, opus 16, 1968 / Willem Frederik Bon
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Strijkorkest
Bezetting:
str
In Solitude : for string orchestra / Sarah Neutkens
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Strijkorkest
Bezetting:
str
Translucent II : for soundtracks and string orchestra, 1978 / Ton Bruynèl
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Strijkorkest; Orkest met elektronica
Bezetting:
str tape
compositie
The Path of the Archangel : Elegy for strings / Nestor Taylor
Toelichting:
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