A Flower For My Daughter
Navona, 2025
9/10
Listen to A Flower For My Daughter
The composer and flutist Sean Clarke enlists Roger Feria Jr., Talia Fuchs, and Nathan Brederson for these 14 selections that make up his debut album.
The title track opens with 2 segments, where Roger Feria Jr.’s emotive and graceful keys unfold with a stirring quality, and “Franey Trail” follows with Talia Fuchs’s expressive soprano and Feria Jr.’s gentle keys fueling Clarke’s libretto via a mesmerizing spirit.
In the middle, “Three Nocturnes, after Monet” occupies 3 segments with lower registers and strong attention to mood, while “Mountain Hymnal, for flute and resonance” allows for Clarke’s meticulous flute to emit wonder and warmth in its 11 minutes.
Deeper still, “Ballade” enlists Nathan Bredeson’s distinct guitar playing that radiates tremendous beauty, and “Winter Light, Castle Mountain (una corda)” exits with an atypical ambience thanks to the piano’s una corda pedal and 4th pedal depressed presence.
A well thought out effort that explores solo settings, chamber sounds and modern composition, Clarke’s vision is one rooted in harmonics, tonality and color, and it emits a very gripping intimacy.
Travels well with: Stef.in- Icterus II; Quator Bozzini- Jürg Frey: String Quartets