Horizon: For Voice and Piano

Horizon: for Harlan, 10 Songs for Voice and Piano
 
Horizon is a cycle of ten song settings of poems by Harlan Payne. 
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"Here [in Horizon], beauty is everywhere. Take the stunningly hypnotic piano part of “Una Casa Nueva” (the text is in English despite the title). Sánchez himself finds full beauty here, melding the beauty of transition (commonly called death) with the sweetest nostalgia for life just passed. The sweet recitations of “Risk” offer an invitation to fully engage in life with a light touch; the piano swirls of “Horizon” intoxicate, but in a very different, perhaps more mystical, way than the Impressionists. There is sheer stillness inherent in the solo voice final song, “Listen”—infinitely memorable."
 
– Fanfare Magazine 
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INSTRUMENTATION
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Soprano and piano
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DURATION
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30 minutes
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SONGS
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I. Starlight
II. A New Day
III. Winter Evening Moonlight
IV. Una Casa Nueva
V. Spring
VI. Risk
VII. A Winter Farewell
VIII. Change
IX. Horizon
X. Listen
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RECORDING
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Magus Insipiens: 3 Song Cycles on Poems by Taliesin, Payne, and Sappho
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DATE OF COMPOSITION
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2012
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In loving memory of Harlan Payne.