related works

The stillpoint : for violin and vibraphone, opus 4, 1994/1995 / Edward Top

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: vibr vl

Verzamelde liederen / arr. Toek Numan, Modest Musorgskij

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble

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

Map of Freedom : for mezzo-soprano, setar, solo violin, solo violincello and chamber string orchestra / Aftab Darvishi; on lyrics by Houshang Ebtehaj

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: zang setar vn-solo vc-solo str

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