related works

My Skeletonized Portrait : for violin and orchestra / Edward Top

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Violin and orchestra
Scoring: vl-solo 3fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3trp 2trb trb-b tb timp 3perc hp cel str

Kwaad bloed : voor ensemble, stem en klanksporen, 1997 / tekst: A. Rimbaud, citaten uit 'Mauvais sang', Paul Bruinen

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble; Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring: recit 1111 1210 perc pf(cel) 2vl vla vc cb tape

Pour faire le portrait d'un oiseau : per mezzo soprano e complesso da camera, (1965) / poesia di Jacques Prévert, Ton de Kruyf

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr-m 1111 1010 perc vibr(xyl) hp pf vc cb

Das Lied von der Erde : Arrangement for tenor, alto (or baritone) and large chamber ensemble / Gustav Mahler; arranged by Henk Guittart

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: 2zang fl/picc ob/eh cl h fg harm pf cel 2perc 2vn vla vc db

composition

Family Songs : for soprano and chamber orchestra / Edward Top; text Martinus Nijhoff, Hanny Michaelis, Edward Top

Other authors:
Michaelis, Hanny (Text writer/Librettist)
Nijhoff, Martinus (Text writer/Librettist)
Top, Edward (Text writer/Librettist)
Top, Edward (Composer)
Description:
In Family Songs it was my objective to move towards simplicity and away from my usually complex and maximalist style. The texts, in both Dutch – my mother tongue - and English, are all chosen and written to express the honesty of life, memory and expectations of parent- and childhood. As such, upon reading, they almost dictated the music in an intuitive and folk-music-like way.

Edward Top, 2013