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
Children's Garden : for female choir and piano / Nestor Taylor; lyrics by R.L. Stevenson
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Gemengd koor en piano
Bezetting:
GK pf
Preludium, fuga en postludium : voor strijkorkest, 1952 / Jan van Dijk
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Strijkorkest
Bezetting:
str
Tema con variazioni : per violini e violoncelli / Henri Zagwijn
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Strijkorkest
Bezetting:
str(vl vc)
Partita : (in de middeleeuwse toonaarden), voor dubbel strijkorkest, op. 105-A / Gerard Boedijn
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Strijkorkest
Bezetting:
str
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