related works
Riff : for wind ensemble / Edward Top
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Wind ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
2fl 2ob cl cl-b fg cfg 2h trp trb tb
Wesendonk Lieder : 1857; bew. 2006 / bew. Geert van Keulen, Richard Wagner
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Trois poèmes en prose : for soprano and orchestra, 1995 / text: Baudelaire, Diderik Wagenaar
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr 2242 2111 2perc hp harm 2pf 4vl 2vla 2vc 2cb
John Clare : for tenor and 15 instruments, 2000/2001 / text: John Clare, Jacques Bank
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
ten 1121 1110 perc pf 2vl vla 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