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

La porte : for baritone and ensemble, 1999 / text: Guillaume Apollinaire, Micha Hamel

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: bar 1121 1000 2perc 2vl vla vc cb

Beverwijck overture : for soprano and amplified ensemble, 2002 / text by the composer based on a diary fragment of Anthony de Hooges (1647), David Dramm

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr 1111 sax-t sax-b 1110 drums g-b synth str(2vl vla vc)

Spin : for soprano and ensemble, 1997-1998 / on words by Dylan Thomas, Astrid Kruisselbrink

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr 3perc pf 3vl 2vla 2vc 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