• tenor and piccolo flute opus 88 nr 5

• Duration: 2' 4"
• Composed in 2012
• First performance: 15.07.12 Yap How Joo Joseph (tenor) and Roberto Álvarez (piccolo flute) Esplanade Recital Studio, Singapore
• ISMN 979-0-0-90165-8-6
• Parts: pg 21 in the score Music from the Heart, <rc@robertcasteels.com>

王维 Wang Wei (701 – 761) is a famous poet, painter and musician of the Tang dynasty. He held several positions in civil service. He wrote 400 poems and excelled in painting images of people, bamboo forests and scenery of mountains and rivers. This poem comprises eight verses, of 5 words each.

过 香 积 寺 By the Temple

I did not know the incense storing temple
I walked a few miles into the clouded peaks
No man on the path between the ancient trees.
A bell rang somewhere deep among the hills.
A spring sounded choked, running down steep rocks.
The deep pines chilled the sunlight colour rays
Come dusk, at the bend of a deserted pool,

Through meditation I controlled dragon’s passion.