THE GUARDIAN REVIEWS WIGMORE HALL REBECCA CLARKE FOCUS DAY

performing with Anna Tilbrook, piano at Wigmore Hall | Photo credit: Darius Weinberg, © Wigmore Hall, 2025

THE GUARDIAN

Rebecca Clarke review – composer of spirited chamber music and songs finally gets her due

“…Among the plethora of female composers finally receiving their due in recent years, Rebecca Clarke stands out for sheer quality and consistency of inspiration…In a deftly curated programme, the culmination of a Wigmore Hall Clarke study day, youthful compositions rubbed shoulders with music from her most productive period, the 1920s…American tenor Nicholas Phan lent his bright, lyric instrument and an expressive stillness to a handful of early German songs and brought an understated sensuality to The Cherry-Blossom Wand (Clarke once described the dividing line between music and sex as “so tenuous as to be almost non-existent”)...”