Sad to hear of the death of Italian movie composer Ennio Morricone, whose music was possibly the best part of many Italian-made Westerns back in the 70s… He was 91. Probably his best known piece is ‘Gabriel’s Oboe’ and we were honoured to record Susanne beer’s version on cello for her album ‘Cello Diverse’ – […]

Divine Art’s Métier Records label will soon be releasing an album comprising a unique collaboration of leading voices in poetry, drama, and contemporary music from Ireland. Choral works performed by Laetare Vocal Ensemble are interspersed with evocative and intense readings from the poetry of Paula Meehan, the plays of Marina Carr, and the bilingual collections of Dairena […]

Divine Art Recordings will soon be releasing an album featuring the first ever recordings of Sam Hayden’s complete music for solo piano, performed by well-known contemporary music specialist Ian Pace. The album includes the monumental virtuosic 7-movement cycle Becomings, the most recent work from which the album takes its name, and some earlier shorter works […]

Métier Records to release new recording of piano music from Iran by composers Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour and Hormoz Farhat, performed by Mary Dullea Divine Art Recordings is honoured and delighted to announce a new recording of piano music by two foremost Iranian composers, of two generations, to be released in winter 2020-21 on the Métier new music […]

Originally scheduled as part of the 2020 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, on 16 August 2020, Peter Seivewright will now be performing his Piano Music from the United States of America programme as an independent recital at St. Mark’s Unitarian Church, Edinburgh. The programme will include Edward MacDowell’s Piano Sonata No. 2 (‘Eroica’) which will be recorded […]

A posthuman fantasia about cities, virtual reality and the A.I. singularity: ROBE is an award-nominated opera inspired by fashion and machines. This new (world premiere) recording will be released by Métier Records in late 2020/early 2021. (MÉTIER  MSV 28609). An audio recording which will be available on CD and Hi-Res digital download and streaming, it […]

Songs for Sir John: Works by composers including Robin Stevens, Martin Bussey, Sally Beamish, David Matthews, Peter Dickinson, Lennox Berkeley, Robin Walker and many more Divine Art Records is honoured to announce a new album for release later this year in tribute to one of Britain’s most influential figures in recent musical history – and […]

Preview our three June 12, 2020 releases now on our YouTube Channel:

We were saddened by the news of the passing of composer Gerard Schurmann on March 24, at the age of 96. Born in what is now Indonesia, he moved at the age of 17 to England where he served in the RAF, worked in the diplomatic service and began his long composing and conducting career. […]

Preview our four May 8, 2020 releases now on our YouTube Channel:

Divine Art Recordings is delighted to announce a new album of piano music from English pianist Roderick Chadwick. Alongside the first book from Messiaen’s Catalogue d’Oiseaux are works by Karol Szymanowski and David Gorton. Olivier Messiaen’s Catalogue d’oiseaux for solo piano evokes the sights and sounds of the French landscape, exploring time and memory across […]

Divine Art is delighted to announce its latest project for the Métier label with leading chamber ensemble Gemini and its clarinettist leader, Ian Mitchell.  The album, to be recorded this autumn, will be titled “for clarinet and strings” and contains works by several prominent composers, with a number of premiere recordings. From its very beginning in 1974 Gemini has commissioned […]

Divine Art Recordings are to release an album of orchestral music by Edward Cowie, which as with their recent and highly praised disc by John McCabe will be a remastered re-release of classic Hyperion vinyl LPs. The two works on this album have a coincidental close relationship with each other. The connection between them is WATER and […]

William Overton (‘Bill’ to everyone) Smith was not only a clarinettist of distinction in both jazz and ‘straight’ fields, but also a composer of remarkably innovative music, much of it for his own instrument. He single-handedly expanded the capabilities of the clarinet beyond the wildest dreams of other musicians. From the beginning of the 1960s […]

New Recordings from Zeynep Ucbasaran, Miguel Ortega Chavaldas, and Sergio Gallo Divine Art has announced two linked but very different new albums of piano music. The first comprises recordings of recent works for three pianos by an international group of composers from the USA, Spain, Italy, Brazil and Turkey. Though modernist, the works are also […]

Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin), and Julian Perkins (square piano) have recorded Schubert’s three 1816 Sonatas for Violin and Piano on period instruments: No. 1 in D major, D.384, No. 2 in A minor, D. 385 and No. 3 in G minor, D.408. While Franz Schubert is one of the most popular and well–loved of the ‘Great Composers’ not all […]

Divine Art’s new-music division, Métier Records, will be releasing two albums of music by veteran Australian composer Geoffrey Allen this year. The first is an album of music for woodwind, which was recorded this January and will be released in the late summer. The music is for flute, clarinet and bassoon, all with piano. Of particular note are the […]

Album of Polish Chamber Music: Works by Szymanowski, Panufnik, and Bacewicz Divine Art is delighted to announce the first recording by the immensely talented Huberman Piano Trio, based in Częstochowa, Poland. The program comprises three major works, though only one is a trio and the others are pieces for violin and piano. Recorded in January 2020 […]

Acclaimed American trumpet player Chris Gekker has just made his second album for Métier, the new-music division of Divine Art Recordings.  This collection of new and recent works (all but one are world premiere recordings) by a range of American composers including Richard Auldon Clark, Carson Cooman and Lance Hulme, demonstrates the mellow and lyrical aspect of […]

Saturday, 7 March, 2020 at 7.30pm at All Saints Center, Lewes will be a special screening of Emmy award-winning film-maker Cesca Eaton’s beautiful portrait of the Cuckmere river and Cuckmere Haven through the seasons, with a lush, evocative score by Lewes-based composer Ed Hughes, to mark the release of Ed Hughes’s CD “Time, Space and […]