Gentle Walker is a duet for a recorder player who sings into the instrument while playing, is the most attractive of Clarke's pieces, not so much because her ideas are more interesting, but because it is in three movements, and therefore her premises are less extended.

The first movement is moderate and melodically wandering. Her simple polyphonic writing would be easy as a recorder duet, but to sing one part and play the other at the same time is very hard. The second movement is easier, sin...