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

Fantasia quasi una cantata : per 12 strumenti ad arco, clavicembalo e mezzo-soprano, op. 71, 1968 / Marius Flothuis

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr-m cemb 7vl 2vla 2vc cb

Spring at Enoshima : for soprano and ensemble : 2005 : text based on Japanese Surimono / Wim Laman

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

John Clare : for tenor and 15 instruments, 2000/2001 / text: John Clare, Jacques Bank

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: ten 1121 1110 perc pf 2vl vla vc cb

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