Winter Love Kyawulsarang 겨울사랑
Soprano voice and violoncello
Programme notes
Mun Jung-hee (1947- ) was born in Bosung, Jeollanam-do. She received her Ph.D. from Seoul Women’s University and made her literary debut in 1969 in The Literature Monthly. Her poetry collections include The Baby Brier, For Men, Now Following the Rose, I am the Door, The Joy of Love, and The Prolific Virgin. She has received such prestigious awards as the Modern Literature Award and the Sowol Poetry Award. Korean soprano Jeong AeRee gave me this poem, entitled Kyawulsarang 겨울사랑
Like snow flakes I long to come to you.
Without wavering
without rambling
without concealing
I long to plunge into your white life
and become a warm winter.
I long to snow for a thousand years.
Casteels set the poem for soprano and violoncello. Chan Wei Shing, the cellist of the premiere, is the husband of Jeong AeRee.
Completion of the composition
17-V-2012
Recording
link #1 audio of the premiere
Score follower
link #2
original design by Neol Leung Yick Chuen [2013] (reproduced with the permission of the designer)
Duration:
2'40"
Composed In:
2012
Dedicated to:
Parts:
Parts: please contact rc@robertcasteels.com
First performance:
15.07.12 Recital Hall, Esplanade Theatres on the Bay, Singapore
First performed by:
Jeong AeRee (soprano) & Chan Wei Shing (cello)
Commissioned by:
979-0-90165-9-3
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