Divine Art is delighted to announce a superb collection of sensuous classical Spanish language songs for voice and piano, from the sublime musical partnership of lyric soprano Esther Rayo and renowned pianist and conductor Peter Grünberg. This program of works was first heard in a series of concerts given by the San Francisco based teaching and performance organization […]

Divine Art is excited to announce advena: liturgies for a broken world, featuring world premieres of choral music from composer Mark Buller performed by GRAMMY® Award-winning choir Conspirare and Artistic Director Craig Hella Johnson. Releasing digitally on August 29, 2025 and on CD on September 5, 2025 on Divine Art Records. Born of personal reckonings […]

Featuring three world premiere song cycles and the premiere of three scenes from the opera Two Soldiers. The Diversions label is thrilled to announce a showcase of the vocal music of Chicago-based composer Doug Lofstrom with baritone Ryan De Ryke, soprano Kim Jones, tenor Ryan Townsend Strand, and pianist Daniel Schlosberg for release on12 September 2025. Composer Doug Lofstrom first met Ryan De Ryke […]

Ophelia is the first BRIT School alum to release a commercially recorded classical album Divine Art is delighted to announce the forthcoming release of ‘Between the Lines’, a dazzling collection of solo piano music by Ukrainian composer Nikolai Kapustin, featuring the label debut of the exciting young pianist and musical polymath Ophelia Gordon.  The album will be released […]

Athene announces Zaytoun, an intertwining of Arabic and Baroque music, the debut solo album from tenor Haitham Haidar Featuring Baroque and Arabic songs, poetry and improvisations Athene is delighted to announce the release of Zaytoun (meaning ‘Olive’ in Arabic), the debut solo album from tenor Haitham Haidar. It’s a captivating collection of beautiful Baroque and Arabic songs, interlaced with […]

Featuring rarely heard performing editions blending historical and modern approaches to interpretation In his Divine Art label debut, pianist Tom Hicks was praised for his “formidable technique” (Musical Opinion) and “highly stimulating” (American Record Guide) program of Liszt and Ireland Sonatas. Divine Art is thrilled to announce his second release of an insightful new recording of the Complete Chopin Nocturnes coming 8 […]

All of us were saddended to learn this week of the passing of composer and conductor Robin White at the age of 73. We pass our sincere condolences to his family at this time. Divine Art Records had the distinct privelige of releasing three recordings with Robin, two which included his own works. Robin trained […]

Divine Art Recordings Group is delighted to announce the forthcoming debut album of the bright young English pianist Adam Davies. The Complete Piano Music of Anthony Hedges (1931-2019), Vol. 1, will be the first of two albums to present the entirety of this prolific composer’s concert music for two hands. Starting with the earliest of the […]

These new songs showcase the best of female and non-binary composers for the voice, setting female French poets from the past eight centuries, whose poems Alison Smart Fisher selected to cover the wider French-speaking world. In August 2005, Métier issued an album containing settings of French poetry by 20 composers of high stature including Michael […]

Divine Art is honoured to have signed the acclaimed Australian pianist Rob Hao, now resident in England. His debut album will feature premiere recordings of a selection of Piano Etudes by British composer Alison Kay and his own Palimpsest 571 – commissioned as a completion of the unfinished Schubert Sonata D. 571. Other works included are by Chopin, Schubert, Schubert-Liszt and a selection from Michael Finnissy’s English country-tunes – all exploring how composers re-imaginewider musical traditions and styles. The recording […]

Danish Radio has announced the 2024 P2 “De 5 bedste” Prize for their Five Best Albums of the Year, and we are thrilled to share that Ekkozone‘s Roger Reynolds Wind Concertos album with the Esbjerg Ensemble, Jacqueline Leclair, Kerstin Thiele, and Mathias Reumert was selected as one of the winning albums! Roger Reynolds: Wind Concertos In their […]

First Inversion, a newly established American-based holding company, is proud to announce the acquisition of the United Kingdom’s enterprising recording and publishing group, Divine Art Ltd. Known as the Divine Art Recordings Group, Divine Art consists of the prestigious Divine Art, Métier, Athene, Diversions, Historic Sound, Heritage Media, Pilgrim’s Star, and Ekkozone recording labels, and […]

Joseph Sonnabend: Instrumental and Chamber Works has been nominated for a Contemporary Award in the 2025 International Classical Music Awards! “The International Classical Music Awards ICMA today announced the nominations for their Awards 2025, celebrating the best musicians and recordings. The nominations include many renowned soloists, ensembles, conductors and orchestras as well as a lot […]

Divine Art Records is delighted to announce a forthcoming release comprising the 24 Preludes for Piano by Nicholas Scott-Burt, in its premiere recording, performed by Da-Hee Kim. The double album will be recorded in the first half of 2025 and will be scheduled for release in the autumn. In his 24 Preludes for Piano, Nicholas takes a post-modern approach to the […]

A new album of music by Robert Saxton has been recorded by the renowned Kreutzer Quartet for Divine Art’s new-music label, Métier. Recorded between 2022 and 2024 by master engineer Adaq Khan, the album will be scheduled for release in the early spring of 2025.  The CD and digital album contain Saxton’s String Quartets Nos. 3 and 4 and a Sonata for solo violin performed […]

Nathan Sherman‘s debut solo record, The Gentle Erasure of Time, to be released 21 February 2025 on the Métier label, is a collection of new commissions for solo viola and electronics. The record is a vivid tapestry of sound, a flow between the ghostly and mesmeric, to the intense and cinematic. The works by Nicole Lizée, Karin Rehnqvist, […]

Divine Art is delighted to announce the forthcoming release of a new album of 20th and 21st century works by women composers, performed by cellist Heather Tuach and pianist Yoko Misumi. “In the Mirror” is a selection of melodious cello and piano music by women composers from the 20th and 21st centuries. The 18 pieces were chosen by cellist Heather […]

The celebrated Italian pianist Alfonso Soldano is making a new album of popular piano pieces to be titled ‘My Things’ which as the title suggests, is a programme of works that mean much to the pianist and as he himself puts it, reflect his life and experiences. The album includes established favourites including Debussy’s ‘Clair […]

The critically acclaimed Invencia Piano Duo have joined Divine Art and their first album for the label will be scheduled for release in the first half of 2025. The album is titled ‘Poetic and Religious Harmonies for Two’ – with reference to Liszt’s ‘Poetic and Religious Harmonies’. The new album aims at enriching the piano duo/duet repertoire by arranging solo […]

Divine Art Recordings Group (Métier Records division) is delighted to announce a new double CD release of compositions by prize-winning U.S. American composer Lance Hulme. Hulme’s music has featured on two previous releases for Métier including “The Street Has Changed” of which Fanfare Magazine wrote “This piece is incredibly haunting”… ”spellbinding”.  This monumental new release contains compositions with […]