related works

Bass Trombone Concerto : for bass trombone and orchestra / Edward Top

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Trombone and orchestra
Scoring: trb-b-solo 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2trp trb timp perc pf str

Kindertotenlieder : für Kammerensemble und Stimme, 2003 / bearbeitet von Geert van Keulen, Gustav Mahler

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr fl ob eh cl cl-b 2fg 2h perc hp 2vl vla vc cb

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

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

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