related works
A Life in a Day : for harpsichord and string orchestra / Edward Top
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Harpsichord and string orchestra
Scoring:
cemb str
Wesendonk Lieder : 1857; bew. 2006 / bew. Geert van Keulen, Richard Wagner
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr-m fl/fl-a ob/eh 2cl/2cl-b fg/cfg cymb cemb pf hp acc harm 2vl vla vc db
Sortie : for mezzo-soprano, oboe, trombone, violin, violoncello and piano (opus 33) / Micha Hamel
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
m-sopr ob trb vl vc pf
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