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
Innermost Man : for soprano and 4 instrumental groups / Dmitri Kourliandski; text by A. Platonov
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr fl cl-b h trp trb perc pf bayan/acc str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
trio: sopr vla bando ensemble: 1121 1110 perc pf 2vl vc cb
Speechless : for voice and ensemble / Maarten Altena
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
zang fl-a ob cl fg h tpt trb 3cymb pf hp 2vn vla vlc db
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