related works

Bass Trombone Concerto : for bass trombone and orchestra / Edward Top

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Trombone and orchestra
Scoring: trb-b-solo 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2trp trb timp perc pf str

Des Knaben Wunderhorn / Gustav Mahler, arr. Dimitris Andrikopoulos

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: voice 1111 1100 3perc hp pf harm 3perc 2vl vla vc cb

π = 3,14 : for alto solo and chamber orchestra / Julia Tsenova

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: ob fg h timp perc pf 2vln vla vc db

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

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