From a Railway Carriage for SATB (with divisions) and piano

The piece is a setting of the Scottish poet Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘From A Railway Carriage’. (1885)

​The single movement work describes a series of fleeting moments as witnessed from a railway carriage speeding through the countryside.The whimsical nature of Stevenson’s poem conveys a sense of wonder, perhaps a child’s first train journey, taking in views of rolling countryside, village life or stations whistling by. With the lilting rhythmic backdrop of the motion of the train, fast busy music alternates with slower reflective sections evoking scenes that are merely glimpsed, then gone forever.

This work was developed for Glasgow Lyric Choir as part of the Adopt-a-Composer scheme, funded by the PRSF and run by Sound and Music in association with Making Music.

Rain, Steam and Speed. The Great Western Railway
​by J.M.W. Turner (1844)

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From a Railway Carriage (extract)

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