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A by-no-means-exhaustive collection of extraordinary performances from around the world

CONCERTS AND RECITALS

LAIDLAW LIVE, with James Gilchrist, tenor, and Anna Tilbrook, piano. Laidlaw Music Centre, University of St Andrews, 11 February 2026. Masterful, hugely theatrical performances of Manche Nacht (at 27:30), One That Is Ever Kind (at 31:00), The Seal Man (at 40:10), and June Twilight (at 46:00), with works by Loewe, both Schumanns, Herbert, and Quilter. The peerless Anna Tilbrook gives a brief spoken introduction at 25.30.

ENGLISH SONGS, with Lucile Richardot, mezzo-soprano, Anne de Fornel, piano, and Sarah Nemtanu, violin. Amphithéâtre, Cité de la musique, Philharmonie de Paris, 16 November 2023. Substantial excerpts from a program that included Down by the Salley Gardens (for voice and piano), Midsummer Moon (for violin and piano), Three Old English Songs (for voice and violin), and Three Irish Country Songs, nos. 2 and 3, “I Know Where I’m Goin'” and “As I Was Goin’ to Ballynure” (for voice and violin), with works by Lehmann, Barns, Boyle, and Poldowski.

ADAGIO, for string quartet

Appalachian Chamber Music Festival,
Camp Hill-Wesley United Methodist Church, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, 18 August 2023

THE ASPIDISTRA

Kelly W. Burns, tenor, and Nicholas Shaneyfelt, piano,
18 October 2023

BINNORIE: A BALLAD

Kitty Whately, mezzo-soprano, Simon Lepper, piano, and James Mayhew, illustrator,
Oxford International Song Festival 2025,
Jacqueline du Pré Music Building, St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, 11 October 2025

CHORUS FROM SHELLEY’S ‘HELLAS’

Seattle Girls Choir, Jacob Winkler, conductor, at the Llangollen Eisteddfod, Wales, July 2018. ‘Hellas’ is followed by “Mary Speaks” (Daniel Gawthrop) and “Zion’s Walls” (arr. Aaron Copland), with Susanna Valleau, piano

THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN

As “Tread Softly,” arr. Will Todd, with Bethany Halliday and the Will Todd Trio, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, February 2011

COMBINED CAROLS (version for string quartet)

Quatuor Modigliani
(Amaury Coeytaux and Loic Rio, violins; Laurent Marfaing, viola; and François Kieffer, cello).
Artistic director: Héloïse Luzzati. Château de Rosa Bonheur, By-Thomery, France, 4 December 2020.
For the story of Anthony Trent, see our “FAQ” page.

COMODO E AMABILE, for string quartet

CMU Graduate Quartet (Benjamin Bernardes, violin 1; Jack Wolfe, violin 2; Margherita Fratini, viola; Abraão Sales, cello), Staples Family Concert Hall Tuesday, Central Michigan University School of Music, 21 October 2025 (begins at 52:30)

CORTÈGE

Carson Becke, piano, Ottawa Chamberfest 2021
Henrik Berg, piano, Boda Church, Rättvik, Sweden, 26 October 2023

DAYBREAK

Nicholas Phan, tenor, and Brooklyn Rider
(Johnny Gandelsman and Colin Jacobsen, violins; Nicholas Cords, viola; and Michael Nicolas, cello),
Music Mondays, Advent Lutheran Church, New York, New York, 20 September 2021

DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS (original version, with piano)

Caitlyn Fuller, soprano, and Matthew Sebald, piano,
University of Colorado-Boulder, 2025

A DREAM

Dorota Szczepańska, soprano, and Maria Yulin, piano, 2019

DUMKA

Wen-Yi Lo, violin; Yi-Pei Lin, viola; and Ling Lo, piano;
Hollander Hall, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 14 December 2022
Isaac Allen, violin, Angela Choong, viola, and Steven Schwarz, piano, at
Darlington House, La Jolla, California, 3 April 2011

EARLY SONGS

The remarkable songs that Clarke wrote as an uninstructed teenager, with only a few terms of harmony under her belt, are grouped together here. See our Shop page for details of their imminent publication.

Aufblick (at 2:30) and Stimme im Dunkeln (at 5:08).
George Robarts, baritone, and Thomas Eeckhout, piano,
Oxford International Song Festival 2024, Holywell Music Room, Oxford, 12 October 2024

EPILOGUE

Luba Ulybysheva, cello, and James Kreiling, piano, St Mary’s Perivale, Middlesex UK, 21 October 2021 (begins at 33:30)

“ESURIENTES,” from Bach’s Magnificat in D, arr. for piano

Benjamin Engeli, piano, January 2026

GREETING

Christina Grohowski, mezzo-soprano, and Curtis Serafin, piano

I’LL BID MY HEART BE STILL (original version, for viola)

Duo AltoPiano (Marion Leleu, viola; Stephanie Hoernes, Blüthner piano, c. 1910),
Schloß Stolpe, Usedom, Germany, 2 September 2011

I’LL BID MY HEART BE STILL (alternate version, for cello)

Susan Edward, cello, and Véronique Bracco, piano, Académie de Piano du Busca, Toulouse, France, 2020.

LULLABY ON AN ANCIENT IRISH TUNE

“Piano jam #1 with a baby,” by DragonDad, 9 April 2025

MIDSUMMER MOON

Ekaterina Valiulina, violin, and Margherita Santi, piano,
as part of The Rebecca Clarke Project, Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana, 2025
Maria Ioudenitch, violin (the Joachim-Ma Stradivarius), and Lorena Tecu, piano
Soh-Hyun Park Altino, violin, and Jeannie Yu, piano,
Mills Concert Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Mead Witter School of Music, 9 September 2018

MORPHEUS

Aloysia Friedmann, playing Clarke’s own instrument (Giovanni & Francesco Grancino, Milan, late 17th century),
and Jon Kimura Parker, piano,
Festival Musique de Chambre Montréal, 17 May 2021
(introduction begins at 10:25)
Jeremy Berry, viola, and Michael Refvem, piano, at KING FM 98.1, Seattle, Washington

PASSACAGLIA ON AN OLD ENGLISH TUNE (original version, for viola and piano)

Amber Archibald, viola, and Jamie Namkung, piano, at KING FM 98.1, Seattle, Washington
Duo Pereira-Alvim (Jessé Máximo Pereira, viola, and Heron Alvim, piano),
Conservatório de Música da UFMG Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 21 March 2023

PASSACAGLIA ON AN OLD ENGLISH TUNE (adapted by the composer for cello and piano)

Michael Katz, cello, and Victor Santiago Asunción, piano,
Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts, Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago, 19 December 2022

PRELUDE, ALLEGRO, AND PASTORALE

Nora Niskanen, clarinet, and Katariina Ruokonen, viola, at Apulandia, Lahti, Finland

THE SEAL MAN

“The Great Silkie,” read by Kevin Whately, and
“The Seal Man,” with Kitty Whately, mezzo-soprano, and Joseph Middleton, piano,
Leeds Lieder Festival, Leeds Town Hall, UK, 26 March 2021
Paul Ryan Arcolas, countertenor, and Julian Aquino, piano,
Senior Voice competition, National Music Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA) Foundation Inc., 22 November 2023
Anne-Lise Polchlopek, mezzo-soprano and Elenora Pertz, piano, Concours de chant-piano international Nadia et Lili Boulanger, Salle de concert du Conservatoire national supérieur d’Art dramatique, Paris, 12 December 2021
Joanna Harries, mezzo-soprano, and Natalie Burch, piano, November 2020

SONATA (original version, for viola and piano)

Alexej Aslamas, and Inna Aslamas, piano,
Konzervatoř Brno, 19 May 2025
Nobuko Imai, viola, and Albert Tiu, piano,
Yong Siew Toh Conservatory Concert Hall, Singapore, February 2023
Jamiang Santi, viola, and Giorgio Martano, piano,
Teatro Sociale di Como, Italy, February 11, 2021

SONATA (original version, scherzo only)

Vinciane Béranger, viola, and Dana Ciocarlie, piano

SONATA (version for cello, by the composer and May Mukle)

Dakota Cotugno, cello, and Barbie Noyes, piano, November 2025

THREE OLD ENGLISH SONGS

Aneta Łukaszewicz, mezzo-soprano, and Kornelia Figielska, violin,
Festiwal Jesienne Roztocze,
Dom Kultury, Szczebrzeszynie, Poland, 14 December 2025

THREE IRISH COUNTRY SONGS

Elizabeth Murphy, soprano, and Rebecca Burchfield, violin, at the 2010 Festival of Faith and the Arts, Bethany Lutheran Church, Cherry Hills Village, Colorado, 25 July 2010

TRIO

Oberon Trio (Henja Semmler, violin; Antoaneta Emanuilova, cello; and Jonathan Aner, piano),
Kursaal Bad Cannstatt, 28 January 2024
Egon Trio (Wonbeen Chung, violin; Sofía Torres Durán, cello; and Chenyang Wen, piano),
Kammermusik Klassenabend, Klass von Prof. Cibrán Sierra Vázquez, 24 June 2023
ATOS Trio (Annette von Hehn, violin; Stefan Heinemeyer, violoncello; and Thomas Hoppe, piano), Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin, 5 March 2020. Video and sound: Felix Epp.

TWO PIECES FOR VIOLA (or violin) AND CELLO

Zhao Yiwen, viola, and Gao Bingkun, cello, Tokyo Gakugei University, 8 May 2020
1. Lullaby (alternate version for violin and cello), with Duo-B (Hirono Borter, violin, and Philip Borter, cello)

VOR DER TÜRE

Karine Deshayes, mezzo-soprano, Pierre Fouchenneret, violin, and Théo Fouchenneret, piano,
La Boîte à Pépites, 3 December 2024 (and see here for the entire series)