The morning mail brings Rebecca Franks’s guide to Clarke’s Viola Sonata, just published by BBC Music Magazine. As you can see from our own Discography, our recommended recordings are somewhat different, but we rejoice to see the Sonata—actually, any piece by Clarke—treated seriously on its own merits and discussed like any other worthwhile work of art, without the kind of special pleading that it so often gets, but so conspicuously does not need. Franks has taken the trouble to get her facts straight and, as always with Clarke, the facts speak, very powerfully, for themselves.

As a bonus, the online version includes a pretty stunning video, from 2015, of the Sonata’s first movement, by the (then) sixteen-year-old Sarah Sung. Enjoy!