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

Perceval et Blanchfleur : op twee fragmenten uit "Le roman de Perceval ou Le conte du Graal" van Chrétien de Troyes, voor tenor en kamermuziekensemble, 1982 / Joop Voorn

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: ten fl ob ob(eh) 2cl 2fg 2h trp trb hp 2vl vla vc

Kinderstube : = (Detskaja), für Ensemble und Stimme, 1868-1872/2011 / [Instrumentation:] Geert van Keulen, Texte von Modest Musorgskij, Modest Musorgskij

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: voice fl ob eh hp 2vl vla vlc

L'autunno di Christina : Dramatic scene for soprano and large ensemble / Klas Torstensson

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: sopr-solo fl/picc ob/eh cl-cl-b fg tpt h trb-t/trb-b pf 2perc 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 (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