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

Meditations : for baritone, 15 solo strings and piano , 1976 / on poems by Dylan Thomas, Ton de Kruyf

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: bar pf 9vl 3vla 2vc cb

A call to la source possible : Songs & Interludes 5, voor sopraan en 12 instrumentalisten, 1988 / Alex Manassen

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr 1111 1110 pf vl vla vc cb

From Turkey : 5 songs for soprano and small wind orchestra, 1993 / Bernard van Beurden

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr 3221 4sax 2232 2barh 4perc

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