related works

Rescriptio : for intercultural string orchestra / Edward Top

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring: 3erhu 2kamancheh 2vn 3vla 2vc db

Zwischen die Nachrichten : for soprano and mandoline orchestra, 1998 / on words by Nicolas Born, Bernard van Beurden

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr mand-orch

MERZ : for voice and ensemble / Hans Koolmees, on texts by Kurt Schwitters

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: zang 2fl cl 2sax tpt 2trb tb g-e g-b perc pf/cel

Pour faire le portrait d'un oiseau : per mezzo soprano e complesso da camera, (1965) / poesia di Jacques Prévert, Ton de Kruyf

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr-m 1111 1010 perc vibr(xyl) hp pf vc cb

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