related works

A Life in a Day : for harpsichord and string orchestra / Edward Top

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Harpsichord and string orchestra
Scoring: cemb 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

Sortie : for mezzo-soprano, oboe, trombone, violin, violoncello and piano (opus 33) / Micha Hamel

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: m-sopr ob trb vl vc pf

Six Cavafy songs : for baritone and ensemble / Robert Nasveld ; text by C.P. Cavafy

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: bar fl(fl-a, pic) ob(eh) cl(cl-b) fg(friction pot) h(bazooka) trp trb 2perc 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