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

Keats II : for high voice and chamber orchestra, 1997 / on words by John Keats, Maarten Altena

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: high 2222 2220 2perc pf 4vl 2vla 2cb

Não estou pensando em nada : for alto and ensemble / Jan van de Putte; lyrics by Álvaro de Campos (Fernando Pessoa)

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: alt fl-a fl-b ob(eh) cl-b cl-cb fg-c 2h trp trb tb 3perc cymb acc pf hp str

Work/Bonk : for four sopranos and mixed ensemble / Geoff Hannan

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: 4sopr picc cl-b h tpt-picc trb-b tb 3perc 2pf vn vla vc db

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