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Le Train d'Hiver

from A Winter Rose by Boydell Singers

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Michaelmas Term Concert
Trinity College Chapel
Academic Year 2012/2013

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Text: Philippe Morrin

Le train fulminant
Siffle en traversant l’hiver
Si un rythme furieux
Il brule le charbon

De pleine cheminée, secouant ses wagons

Il fonce dans le froid tel un iceberg de fer.

Tirant derriére lui ce fardeaue quie pourchasse
Le moteur en combat continue a forcer.

En foncant, droit devant, sur les rails enneigés
Une fureure de fer ensevlie sous la glace.

C’est au loin qu’on entend un bruit emmitouflé
Sur l’étendue des rails, dans le table gelé.

Sous les poids de l’hiver
Et la froideur du vent.

Translation

The billowing train whistles through winter
At a furious rythm, burning coal
Smoke stacked, wagons rocking
As an iron iceberg, it plunges through the cold.

Towing this chasing load
The locomotive, battling, presses on
Tearing straight ahead on snowy tracks
Iron furies buried beneath ice.

And from afar echoes a muffled roar
On these endless tracks, in this frozen landscape
In the dead of winter
And the chill of the wind.

As it slices the endless spread
The convoy contrasts with the white countryside
Protesting, it stretches away
Into the lost season.

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from A Winter Rose, released July 12, 2012
Composer: Marie-Claire Saindon
Conductor: Niamh Nic Uileagóid
Recording: Rob Kearns

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Founded in 1948, Trinity College Singers is a student-run choral society made up of four choirs; Trinity Singers, Boydell Singers, Trinity Belles, and the Trinitones.

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