The Shelley setting Music, when soft voices die is a more individual work, and a rapt and sensitive performance responsive to its subtle word-painting and more convincing harmonic idiom would persuade many of the value of publishing these neglected pieces. * Nicholas Bannan, Music Teacher April 2004 * 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. * Matthew Greenall, The Singer March 2004 *