related works

Eruption : for orchestra / Edward Top

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 2fl(picc) 2ob cl cl-b 2fg 4h 2trp 2trb trb-b timp 3perc hp str

Innermost Man : for soprano and 4 instrumental groups / Dmitri Kourliandski; text by A. Platonov

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr fl cl-b h trp trb perc pf bayan/acc str

Keats I : for high voice and chamber orchestra, 1997 / on words by John Keats, Maarten Altena

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: high 2222 2220 2perc pf vl 2vla 2cb

Far away in the ocean : for twelve violoncellos and soprano / Reza Namavar ; text: Toon Tellegen

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr 12vc

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