Matthew Whittall's large-scale choral song cycle Songs of Travel (2020-2021) is set to poems by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), compiled and adapted by the composer. The opening song, Home no more home, presents a simple, ambiguously modal tune at the outset, before sending out tendrils in searching, halting rhythms, a slow, reluctant tread off into the hills, clouded by memory. The middle three songs are brighter in tone, attempting to find solace in a variety of places - in the land, in th...