composer

Top, Edward

Edward Top was born in Ommen, the Netherlands, in 1972. Top has lived and worked in London, Bangkok, and Rotterdam. He now lives in Vancouver, Canada. Top studied composition and ...

related works

The overwhelming blankness of the ultimate meaninglessness of tragedy : for 2 ensembles, soprano and actor, 1995-1996 / words: Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, Amnesty International, Edward Top

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Vocal Ensemble (2-12) and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr recit 1111 1110 perc vibr hp pf 2vl vla vc cb

Lieder und Tänze des Todes : = (Pesni i pljaski smerti), für Ensemble und tiefe Stimme, 1874-1877/1994 / [Instrumentation]: Geert van Keulen, Gedichte von A.A. Golenishtchev-Kutusov, Modest Musorgskij

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: low fl(fl-a) ob eh cl cl(cl-b) fg cfg 2h vc cb

Cinco poemas : = (Five poems), for soprano and clarinet quartet, 1989, revision 1990 / Ted Ponjee

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr 3cl cl-b

EN/OF II : for soprano, recorder, electric guitar, violin, piano, percussion, bass clarinet, trombone and double bass, 1995 / on words by Alison Isadora and Robert Wycherley, Alison Isadora

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr rec cl-b trb perc el.g pf vl cb

composition

Lied der Schwermuth : for string quartet and bass-baritone, 2003 / text: Friedrich Nietzsche, Edward Top

Other authors:
Nietzsche, Friedrich (librettist)
Contains:
Het Oer-ene
Uit de geest van de muziek
... (Largo mysterioso-Andante con moto-Recitativo)
Ghosts of the violently dead (Spirituoso)
You can give a voice to the silence of suffering, my silence (Voilé)
De tranen van Oidipous
Das Lied der Schwermuth (Lagro mysterioso-Andante con moto)
Molto brutale
To eagles like (Dolce mysterioso)
Adlerhaft, Pantherhaft sind deine Sehnsüchte unter tausend Larven
... (Molto energico e molto ritmico)