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Annabel Lee : An English ballad for high voice and harp / Nestor Taylor; lyrics by Edgar Allan Poe
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en instrument(en)
Bezetting:
zang pf/hp
Ballade : voor strijkorkest, opus 892, 1995 / Jan van Dijk
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Strijkorkest
Bezetting:
str
Concerto grosso : Opus III Nº VI / edidit Hans Brandts Buys, Pieter Hellendaal
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Strijkorkest
Bezetting:
str
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Strijkorkest
Bezetting:
str
compositie
The Path of the Archangel : Elegy for strings / Nestor Taylor
Overige auteurs:
Taylor, Nestor
(Componist)
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