componist
Edward Top was born in Ommen, the Netherlands, in 1972. Top has lived and worked in London, Bangkok, and Rotterdam. He now lives in Vancouver, Canada. Top studied composition and ...
gerelateerde werken
... en weende hij bitter : voor viool, violoncello en piano, 2000/2001 / Edward Top
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Pianotrio (piano, viool, cello)
Bezetting:
pf vl vc
Four Rivers : for two violins and symphony orchestra / Maxim Kolomiiets
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Viool en orkest
Bezetting:
2vn-solo 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2tpt 2trb trb-b perc str
Hymne / gecomponeerd door Alphons Diepenbrock, voor viool en orkest
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Viool en orkest
Bezetting:
2232 2300 timp hp str vl-solo
Algos : for violin and orchestra, 1993 / Theo Abazis
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Viool en orkest
Bezetting:
4232 4231 4perc pf hp str vl-solo
compositie
My Skeletonized Portrait : for violin and orchestra / Edward Top
Toelichting:
This 10-minute work is based on the etching with the same title of Belgian artist James Ensor. On separate panels, it shows two states of the artist himself. One is a ‘skeletonized’ version of the other, as if the artist celebrates the wearing of his own death mask. This transformation from one state to the next, from the real to the surreal, from the ordinary to the grotesque is the main element in the composition. The orchestral introduction already shows this process of transformation. The first violins play the initial phrase of a melody in the style of Tchaikovsky that is soon brought into a surrealistic realm of celesta, harp and strings harmonics. This process is then applied to the large form. The violin solo expands the initial phrase after which the mood entirely changes into a grotesque dance, entitled ‘Entry of the Masked Skeletons’. ‘My Schizoid Portrait’ is the subtitle of a cadenza-like section, which culminates in a grand and slow postlude.
Edward Top