Presto Recordings of the Year
Finalist 2025

Gramophone Magazine
January 2026
Editor's Choice

Anna Tilbrook (piano), Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano), Nicholas Phan (tenor), Max Baillie, Gweneth Ann Rand (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Karen Gomyo, Erin Keefe, Paul Neubauer (violin), Mark Kosower

Clarke, Rebecca: Greeting
Clarke, Rebecca: 2 Songs: No. 1, Shy One
Clarke, Rebecca: A Dream
Clarke, Rebecca: 2 Songs: No. 2, The Cloths of Heaven
Clarke, Rebecca: One That Is Ever Kind "The Folly of Being Comforted"
Clarke, Rebecca: Down by the Salley Gardens
Clarke, Rebecca: June Twilight
Clarke, Rebecca: The Seal Man
Clarke, Rebecca: Oh, Dreaming World
Clarke, Rebecca: Up-Hill
Clarke, Rebecca: Sleep
Clarke, Rebecca: Spirits
Clarke, Rebecca: Shiv, Who Poured the Harvest "Shiv and the Grasshopper"
Clarke, Rebecca: Chanson
Clarke, Rebecca: Three Old English Songs
Clarke, Rebecca: Vor der Ture schlaft der Baum
Clarke, Rebecca: Du
Clarke, Rebecca: Oh Welt
Clarke, Rebecca: Nach einem Regen
Clarke, Rebecca: Vergissmeinnicht
Clarke, Rebecca: Das Ideal
Clarke, Rebecca: The Cherry-Blossom Wand
Clarke, Rebecca: The Donkey
Clarke, Rebecca: The Aspidistra
Clarke, Rebecca: Ah for the Red Spring Rose
Clarke, Rebecca: God made a tree
Clarke, Rebecca: Binnorie: A Ballad
Clarke, Rebecca: Weep you no more, sad fountains
Clarke, Rebecca: Come, Oh Come, My Life's Delight
Clarke, Rebecca: A Psalm of David, When He Was in the Wilderness of Judah
Clarke, Rebecca: Magna est veritas
Clarke, Rebecca: Take, O Take Those Lips Away
Clarke, Rebecca: Cradle Song
Clarke, Rebecca: Infant Joy
Clarke, Rebecca: Tiger, Tiger
Clarke, Rebecca: Eight O'Clock
Clarke, Rebecca: The Moving Finger Writes
Clarke, Rebecca: Lethe
Clarke, Rebecca: Return of Spring
Clarke, Rebecca: Tears
Clarke, Rebecca: The Color of Life
Clarke, Rebecca: Klage
Clarke, Rebecca: Manche Nacht
Clarke, Rebecca: Aufblick
Clarke, Rebecca: Durch die Nacht
Clarke, Rebecca: Wanderers Nachtlied
Clarke, Rebecca: Stimme im Dunkkeln
Clarke, Rebecca: Nacht fur Cacht
Clarke, Rebecca: Daybreak
Clarke, Rebecca: Down by the Salley Gardens
Clarke, Rebecca: Irish Country Songs (3)
Clarke, Rebecca: Away, Delights!
Clarke, Rebecca: Hymn to Pan

Internationally acclaimed British mezzo - soprano Kitty Whately , Grammy Award - winning American tenor Nicholas Phan , and distinguished British pianist Anna Tilbrook have joined forces to record Rebecca Clarke – The Complete Songs , the first album to encompass Clarke’s entire song output, many of which are world - premiere recordings.

The album features guest appearances from violinist Max Baillie , baritone Roderick Williams , soprano Gweneth Ann Rand , and members of the Seattle Chamber Music Society.

The album offers nearly 30 world - premiere 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. “Do yourself a favour,” urges baritone Roderick Williams OBE, who features on the album, “and get to know this composer. Rebecca Clarke’s music is rich, evocative, and deeply rewarding. The first time I heard Rebecca Clarke’s song The Sealman my mind was completely blown. Not only did the song, its story, its harmonies, its textures, utterly transport me, I was also completely embarrassed as to why I had never heard of this composer before. I began to discover more of her songs and then became aware of her chamber music. I realised what a huge gap there was in my repertoire knowledge. I almost felt cheated that I’d managed to continue this long without having encountered Rebecca Clarke’s music. At last that omission has been rectified and I am grateful for it."

"The music-making throughout displays riveting eloquence and burning conviction, with Kitty Whately and Nicholas Phan in particular operating at the very top of their game...One of the year's best, without a shadow of a doubt." - Gramophone Magazine, January 2026