composer
Edward Top was born in Ommen, the Netherlands, in 1972. Top has lived and worked in London, Bangkok, and Rotterdam. He now lives in Vancouver, Canada. Top studied composition and ...
related works
Helix : for orchestra / Edward Top
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2tpt 3trb tb timp 2perc hp pf str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Instruments:
ten-c 2perc 2vibr hp 7vl 4vla 2vc cb
Wesendonk Lieder : 1857; bew. 2006 / bew. Geert van Keulen, Richard Wagner
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Explicaties : for ensemble, 2007 / Guus Janssen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Instruments:
voice fl(pic) cl cl-b 2sax fg h trp trb 2perc g hp pf cemb 2vl vla vc cb
composition
Family Songs : for soprano and chamber orchestra / Edward Top; text Martinus Nijhoff, Hanny Michaelis, Edward Top
Other authors:
Michaelis, Hanny
(librettist)
Nijhoff, Martinus
(librettist)
Top, Edward
(librettist)
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