[Instrumental, 66 BPM, 16 bars, the A major chord from before in the strings sinks to one low D held by a solo cello, then a plucked concert harp plays one wide arpeggio every two bars like a far horizon, D major, warm wooden hall] [Instrumental, 16 bars, the solo cello plays one long low note every two bars, the harp arpeggio continues, the harmony moves once every four bars] [Instrumental, 16 bars, the solo cello plays the melody in its warm low register, two steps up and a leap up, then falls back to stop one note short of home, the harp continues beneath] [Instrumental, 16 bars, a viola enters on long notes beneath the cello, the harmony moves once every four bars, the harp continues] [Instrumental, 16 bars, violins enter high above the cello on long legato notes, the widest spacing of the album, low cello and high violins far apart] [Instrumental, 16 bars, a fingerpicked nylon string guitar enters with one warm chord every four bars, the cello repeats the melody a little higher] [Instrumental, 16 bars, bright celesta notes appear very high, one every two bars like distant stars, the cello and violas continue] [Instrumental, 16 bars, a solo violin answers the cello melody from high above, the question asked from far away, the harp and guitar continue] [Instrumental, 16 bars, the cello and the solo violin trade the melody phrase by phrase, both stopping one note short of home, the celesta stars continue] [Instrumental, 16 bars, a large warm string section of violins, violas, cellos and basses enters on one sustained chord, the harmony moves once every four bars] [Instrumental, 16 bars, the string section widens, a harp glissando, the solo cello leaps higher, the celesta stars continue] [Instrumental, 16 bars, the cello builds toward the answer, the melody rises two steps and leaps and hangs on its highest note, the string section swells beneath, the harp and guitar continue] [Instrumental, 16 bars, the answer, the solo cello plays the complete melody, the two step rise, the leap up and the complete fall that lands home on D, the long awaited last step, the string section in one broad D major chord, harp glissandos, celesta stars, radiant and broad, never a wall of sound, warm wooden hall] [Instrumental, 16 bars, the solo violin repeats the answered melody above and the cello answers an octave lower, both landing home on D, the string section moves one chord every two bars] [Instrumental, 16 bars, the strings hold one broad chord while the cello and the solo violin play the melody together, landing home, the harp and guitar continue] [Instrumental, 16 bars, the string section thins to violas and cellos, the solo violin leaves, the cello plays the melody once more and lands home, settled] [Instrumental, 16 bars, the guitar and the celesta leave, the harp plays one arpeggio every two bars, the cellos and violas hold long notes] [Instrumental, 16 bars, the violas leave, the solo cello and the harp alone, the cello plays the first rise of the melody once] [Instrumental, 16 bars, the harp thins to one note every two bars, the solo cello holds one long low note] [Instrumental, 16 bars, one sustained D major chord in violas and cellos with harp harmonics above, then the third of the chord sinks by one step into D minor and holds, no new notes, the volume only falls until the sound ends naturally] [END]
