composer
The music of composer Edward Top is characterized by extreme contrasts. Rather than being an abstract and independent medium existing outside the human experience, music has the power to induce ...
related works
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Instruments:
fl ob cl cl-b fg h perc hp str
Wesendonk Lieder : 1857; bew. 2006 / bew. Geert van Keulen, Richard Wagner
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
For the time being : for alto voice and ensemble of winds and percussion, 1990 / Jan Guichelaar
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Instruments:
alt 3230 4221 3perc pf
Gezien Hercules Segers : for soprano and instrumental ensemble / Elmer Schönberger
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Instruments:
sopr 2cl(cl-b) h tpt pf hp cimbalom perc 2vn vla vc db
composition
Family Songs : for soprano and chamber orchestra / Edward Top; text Martinus Nijhoff, Hanny Michaelis, Edward Top
Other authors:
Michaelis, Hanny
(librettist)
Nijhoff, Martinus
(librettist)
Top, Edward
(librettist)
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