For those unaware, Composer and flutist Sean Clarke’s delicate, expressive compositions are inspired by the most heterogeneous sources: his children, intuition, nature, and even consciousness itself.

A FLOWER FOR MY DAUGHTER accurately reflects this: these works are vast like the Canadian prairies and mysteriously existential like a child’s laughter.

A FLOWER FOR MY DAUGHTER largely centers around the piano, sensitively performed by Roger Feria. The solo piano alternates with works for voice, solo guitar, and a lone flute played by Clarke himself.

While the selected pieces are in fact separate works, they complement one another quite hypnotizingly, painting a vivid picture of Clarke’s musical thinking.

A flower for my daughter
My Love [5:27]
My life [4:05]
Franey Trail - A chamber opera [9:09]

Three Nocturnes, after Monet
I [7:51]
II [5:46]
III [6:36]
Mountain Hymnal, for flute and resonance[10:58]

The Christmas bells from hill to hill
I [2:38]
II [2:53]
Ballade [7:12]
Winter Light, Castle Mountain [3:23]

Bonus track - The Christmas bells from hill to hill (Tack Piano)
I [2:38]
II [2:51]

Bonus track - Winter Light, Castle Mountain (una corda) [3:19]

With Clarke presenting intimate and delicate compositions inspired by parenthood, nature, and consciousness, he opens the new album on the work A flower for my daughter, which begins on the elegant stillness of My love, then comes calmness personified within My life, culminating on the resonating Franey Trail - A chamber opera; and then we get the work Three Nocturnes, after Monet which opens on the crystalline I, the confident resonance that ebbs within II, and then we get an inquisitively serene III ending with the atmospherical Mountain Hymnal, for flute and resonance.

Along next is the piece The Christmas bells from hill to hill which begins on the quiet solace of I and the languishing beauty of II, before we are brought forth an empowered Ballade, ending with a vein of profound equanimity that resides within Winter Light, Castle Mountain; and then we get two lovely bonus tracks: the stillness of I and the composed structure brought forth within II of The Christmas bells from hill to hill (Tack Piano) and a dutiful placidity shown within Winter Light, Castle Mountain (una corda).

Official Purchase Links

Sean Clarke - A Flower for My Daughter: My Love [Official Music Video]

www.sean-clarke.com