related works

Rescriptio : for intercultural string orchestra / Edward Top

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring: 3erhu 2kamancheh 2vn 3vla 2vc db

Ohne Sonne : = (Bez solnca), für Ensemble und Stimme, 1874/1994 / [Instrumentation:] Geert van Keulen, Gedichte von A.A. Golenishtchev-Kutusov, Modest Musorgskij

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: voice fl(fl-a) ob eh cl cl(cl-b) fg cfg 2h vc cb

Ereprijs in haar keel : voor sopraan en ensemble / Chiel Meijering; lyrics by Piet Gerbrandy

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: pic fl cl sax-s sax-a h trp 2trb tb perc pf g-el g-b

Speechless : for voice and ensemble / Maarten Altena

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: zang fl-a ob cl fg h tpt trb 3cymb pf hp 2vn vla vlc db

composition

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

Author(s):
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