related works

My Skeletonized Portrait : for violin and orchestra / Edward Top

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Violin and orchestra
Scoring: vl-solo 3fl 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 3trp 2trb trb-b tb timp 3perc hp cel str

A crossing place : for mezzo-soprano and instrumental ensemble, 1989 / Frank de Munnik

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr-m 1121 1110 perc hp pf vl vla vc cb

Des Knaben Wunderhorn : Version with nine songs / 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

Kindertotenlieder : for voice and ensemble, 2003 / poems by Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866), arr.: Maarten Altena, Gustav Mahler

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: voice 1121 sax-t 1110 perc hp g vl 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