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

From Turkey : 5 songs for soprano and small wind orchestra, 1993 / Bernard van Beurden

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr 3221 4sax 2232 2barh 4perc

The Tell-Tale Heart : Monodrama for soprano and ensemble / Willem Jeths; arranged by Fergus McAlphine. Based on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr fl/picc ob/eh cl fg h 2perc mar acc pf 2vn vla vc db

Von Hannenheim Lieder : for voice and ensemble, 1999 / on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Jenny Boese en Emil von Schönaich-Carolath, instrumentation by Geert van Keulen

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: high 2023 1110 perc harm pf 2vl vla vc 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