THE ROARING WHIRL – SARAH RODGERS (Métier MSV 28592) A cross-cultural music-narrative set in the North Indian Punjab of Kipling’s ‘Kim’ Launch Event Details When: Wednesday 18 September, 2019 12:00 to 2.00pm Where: The Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain, 26 Fitzroy Square, London W1T 6BT A partnership between the Divine Art Recordings Group […]

We just discovered (July 2019) that composer John Rose had died last year at the age of 90. Not to be confused with younger composers John Alan Rose and John Luke Rose, our John was a composer with a distinctive style, one of the many inspired by Ronald Stevenson; he self published his music and […]

Exciting news from Oxford University Press for composer James Whitbourn! We’re looking forward to releasing a new collection of his pieces on an upcoming recording, “The Seven Heavens” and what we think is one of the most exquisite group of choral masterpieces of recent years! From Oxford University Press: We are delighted to announce that James […]

Tune in Classic FM’s Drive Discovery at 6.20pm every day this week (15-19 July, 2019) as John Brunning features Helen Habershon‘s new Found In Winter recording! “Clarinettist and composer Helen Habershon’s latest offering is a selection of chamber works inspired by winter (the clue is in the title), performed by Habershon herself, with oboist John Anderson, […]

Anthony Hedges (5 March 1931 – 19 June 2019) was one of that rare breed of composer that is as much at home in the world of ‘light’ music as in that of ‘serious’. He can spin a delightful tune one day, and the next be immersed in a work as gritty (the composer’s description) […]

Divine Art Records is preparing a major recording of vocal and choral works by the Greek Cypriot composer Cilia Petridou (who has lived in England for many years).  The double album, with the overall title of ‘Visions of the Greek Soul’ will be in two parts: the first is a program of fifteen songs, which the composer sees […]

The new PDF complete catalogue is now available to download here.  While not as detailed as the website information, the PDF is the most useful quick reference guide from which you can spot items of interest!’

Divine Art Records is delighted to announce the forthcoming recording of the 18 Piano Sonatas by British-born Australian composer Geoffrey Allen, who has just celebrated his 92nd birthday with the completion of his most recent sonata. Allen has had a great deal of influence in the Australian music world since retiring from his career as […]

“A Musical Heaven on Earth” is the subtitle of Stephen Estep’s new three-page profile of Divine Art Recordings Group in the May/June 2019 issue of The Absolute Sound Magazine – see it now! Simonburn is a “small human settlement” in Northastern England, as Wikipedia phrases it. There is a church there named for St. Mungo, […]

A new album of Japanese-inspired music from the cross-cultural ensemble Shonorities will be released by Métier Records later this year. Shonorities, created by Greek composer Basil Athanasiadis, is a diverse group of performers and composers committed to promoting a range of repertoire that encompasses a wide spectrum of musical styles including old, contemporary and traditional […]

Featuring the World Premiere Recording of Complete Solo Movements of the Historic Klagenfurt Manuscript of 1685 The Great Violins series from Divine Art’s Athene historic music label reaches Volume 3 with an exceptional historic work – the Klagenfurt Handskrift of 1685. Violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved accessed the original manuscript at the Landesmuseums Kartnen, in Klagenfurt (southern […]

This July brings Alexander Ffinch’s organ release, Transformations, performed on the rebuilt organ of Cheltenham College Chapel, where he will also be giving one of three recitals that month! Upcoming Performances 1.15 pm: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 – Cheltenham College, Cheltenham, England – Lunchtime Recital 1.15 pm:  Tuesday, July 9, 2019 – Hereford Cathedral, Hereford, England – […]

Swedish composer Jonathan Östlund has been compared to a modern-day Debussy for his finely crafted impressionistic music, inspired strongly by the natural world – places, flora and fauna.  Following the two double albums ‘Lunaris’ and ‘Voyages’, Östlund has again assembled a fine set of musicians to appear on his new album ‘Mistral’ which is scheduled to be […]

Two very nice features appear in the May 2019 issue of Classical Music Magazine: a feature for Natalia Andreeva‘s Divine Art recordings of the music of Galina Ustvolskaya, and an Early Music Today shout-out for Gilbert Rowland‘s first volume of Johann Jakob Froberger’s Harpsichord Suites!

Burkard Schliessmann has received the highest and most prestigious German distinction, the “Goethe-Plakette” of the city Frankfort/Main.  The Goethe Plakette designed by Georg Krämer is commended to poets, writers, artists and scientists and other personalities of the cultural life […] who, through their creative work, are worthy of a tribute dedicated to the memory of Goethe The […]

Following the completion of Divine Art’s 10-album series of orchestral, choral and chamber works by Vyacheslav Artyomov, which culminated in a stunning recording from 2018 of his symphony ‘In Spe’ (in Hope), it has been announced that the series is to be extended. Next to be issued will be a compilation of chamber works recorded over a […]

Two major string quartets by Franz Schubert performed on period gut strings have been recorded by the Fitzwilliam String Quartet and will be released on the Divine Art label in February 2020.  The recording is one of many events and projects set up by the quartet to celebrate its 50th anniversary season (2018/9) which has seen the […]

Soprano Sara Stowe’s debut recording for Métier – Divine Art Recordings Group, titled ‘Ogloudoglou: Vocal Masterpieces of the Experimental Generation 1960-90’, is a tour de force in contemporary vocal performance. Her disc displays both the trained virtuosity of a western classically-trained singer and a vocal flexibility and curiosity in the vocal sounds of traditional song and […]

Leading new-music label Métier pushes the boundaries with a new work for improvising cellist and electronics. Black Cats and Blues is a composition by Craig Vear, and performed/realised by cellist Craig Hultgren. The piece which is in ten movements allows the cellist to interact with electronic score generation and processing (and visual imagery in live performance) and use the whole […]

Pianist Peter Seivewright announces an 27th April 2019 recital at St. John’s Cathedral in Oban, Scotland at 7:30pm featuring J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Rachmaninoff’s Piano Sonata No. 2. Following this performance, on May 21, 2019, Seivewright begins his appointment as the Pianist-in-Residence at the brand-new Phuket School of Music in Phuket, Thailand. He will […]