componist
Dutch Canadian composer Edward Top studied composition and violin at the Rotterdam Conservatoire in The Netherlands. Primarily studying with Peter-Jan Wagemans he has also worked with Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, ...
gerelateerde werken
Eruption : for orchestra / Edward Top
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Orkest
Bezetting:
2fl(picc) 2ob cl cl-b 2fg 4h 2trp 2trb trb-b timp 3perc hp str
Des Knaben Wunderhorn / Gustav Mahler, arr. Dimitris Andrikopoulos
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting:
voice 1111 1100 3perc hp pf harm 3perc 2vl vla vc cb
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting:
mezzo fl/picc/fl-a cl/cl-b h perc hp pf 2vln vla vc db
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en groot ensemble
Bezetting:
sopr fl ob eh cl cl-b 2fg 2h perc hp 2vl vla vc cb
compositie
Family Songs : for soprano and chamber orchestra / Edward Top; text Martinus Nijhoff, Hanny Michaelis, Edward Top
Overige auteurs:
Michaelis, Hanny
(tekstdichter/librettist)
Nijhoff, Martinus
(tekstdichter/librettist)
Top, Edward
(tekstdichter/librettist)
Toelichting:
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