REBECCA CLARKE
THE COMPLETE SONGS
with Kitty Whately, mezzo-soprano
Anna Tilbrook, piano
FEATURING
Gweneth Ann Rand, soprano
Roderick Williams, baritone
Max Baillie, violin & viola
Members of the Seattle Chamber Music Society – James Ehnes, artistic director
Karen Gomyo & Erin Keefe, violins
Paul Neubauer, viola
Mark Kosower, cello
Signum Records
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AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 7, 2025!
ABOUT THE ALBUM
Rebecca Clarke (1886–1979) wrote vocal chamber music over the whole of her career, from Wandrers Nachtlied, her first completed composition, in 1903, through her overhaul of Lethe, in the winter of 1976–77. Taken together, her songs and duets constitute one of the greatest and most distinctive contributions to the vocal repertoire of the twentieth century.
Despite composing around 100 works—including vocal music, chamber pieces, and piano works—only 20 were published during Clarke’s lifetime. By the time of her death in 1979, at the age of 93, her music had all but vanished from print. Rebecca Clarke – The Complete Songs is the first album to encompass Clarke’s entire song output, including nearly 30 world-première recordings of songs unpublished in Clarke’s lifetime, alongside new arrangements of Clarke’s The Seal Man and Binnorie, highlighting the viola, an instrument central to Clarke’s own performing career.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Rebecca Clarke: The Complete Songs is made possible with support from:
The Stanford Society
The Wavendon Foundation
The Winship Foundation
As well as individual support from Fotine Assimos, Jeff & Jamie Barnett, Steven & Robin Kunkel, Sem & Katherine Phan, Lisa Seischab, Neil Sekhri & Christopher Sherrill, Gina Soter, Peter Sparling, and Kenneth Sweetman.
Rebecca Clarke: The Complete Songs was supported in part by Nicholas Phan's solo recording projects, which is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization.
Contributions for the charitable purposes of Nicholas Phan's solo recording projects must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.