Raphael Wallfisch & John York play Rebecca Clarke's Music for Cello and Piano

"I'll Bid My Heart Be Still"
Rebecca Clarke's beautiful setting of this Folk Song for Cello and Piano.
"What [Rebecca Clarke] did, she did extremely well, resulting in tautly structured music full of ardour and complexity." Gramophone, September 2016

“The disc is essential for anyone with an interest in British music.”

Clarke was Stanford’s first female pupil and an orchestral musician on a par with the men in what seemed to be a man’s world … This CD, so wonderfully and emotionally played by Raphael Wallfisch
and John York also includes the Rhapsody for cello and piano. I agree with John York, in his excellent notes, who says that this is probably Clarke’s masterpiece. Wallfisch and York, as you might expect, make a great partnership and they know the music inside out especially the Sonata. As a consequence of York’s involvement with Clarke’s music he has composed Dialogue with Rebecca Clarke, which although it is very much its own piece does quote some fragments of her work. Stylistically it seems to me the sort of work Clarke herself might well have enjoyed using some of whole tone harmonies and repetitive rhythms one finds in her Cello Rhapsody and in the much better known Piano Trio. Gary Higginson, MusicWeb-International.com

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