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

Das letzte Gold verfallener Sterne : for soprano and ensemble, 2002 / poem: Georg Trakl, Christina Viola Oorebeek

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr fl(pic) ob cl cl-b perc cel hp 2vl vla vc cb

Bamboleamos no mundo / Jan van de Putte

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr alt 2fl ob 2cl fg 2h trp trb tb 3perc cymb acc pf hp 2vl vla vc db

Chant Ascendant : for soprano (or two alternating sopranos) and ensemble / Peter Adriaansz; text by Jacques Prévert

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr/2sopr 1110 0000 2perc man g hp pf/cemb vl vla vc cb

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