This is music of a composer who has a tremendous love for life and a love of writing music. Her work is always accessible, although never simplistic. These works show that they were written by a composer who loves performers and the connection with people that comes from live musical performance. Her firm grasp of instrumental and vocal writing has led to the creation of works that are written exactly to abilities of the performers involved. Her music is performed frequently, and she receives continual commissions for new works from orchestras, choruses, chamber ensembles, and soloists.
Analytic commentary is, however, only a poor way to get to know the works of any composer.
Thus, hearing or performing this tremendous music is the best way to get acquainted with its energy, beauty, and capacity for creating pure enjoyment. Walker's works appear on a number of commercially available CD recordings. Recommended here are four of those CD recordings that are readily available and together serve as an excellent overview and starting point for beginning the exploration of Walker's work. This excellent recording contains works in the choral and chamber genres. The Golden Harp is an extensive cycle on the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore.