for unaccompanied five-part women's chorus (SSSAA)
Although quite short, this is one of Clarke's boldest and, in some respects, most ambitious compositions. It sets Shelley's magnificent ode to the Evening Star.
This music should enjoy a deserved circulation that it never received in the composer's lifetime. Some of the pieces are slight, but at their best they show Clarke engaged with an impressive range of historical models, from romantic part-song and madrigal through to glee, lute song and medieval carol, accomplished with a technical proficiency which shows her as a true pupil of Stanford.
