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

Perceval et Blanchfleur : op twee fragmenten uit "Le roman de Perceval ou Le conte du Graal" van Chrétien de Troyes, voor tenor en kamermuziekensemble, 1982 / Joop Voorn

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: ten fl ob ob(eh) 2cl 2fg 2h trp trb hp 2vl vla vc

Kafka Sketchbook : for fortepiano, bariton, ensemble of period instruments and live electronics / Martijn Padding

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: bar 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h trp trb perc fortepf cb electronics

Caliban Sings (Three Songs from William Shakespeare's The Tempest) : Version for mezzo-soprano and ensemble / Elmer Schönberger; lyrics from William Shakespeare's The Tempest

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: mezzo fl/picc/fl-a cl/cl-b h perc hp pf 2vln vla vc db

composition

Family Songs : for soprano and chamber orchestra / Edward Top; text Martinus Nijhoff, Hanny Michaelis, Edward Top

Other authors:
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