In 2015 Métier released a DVD of solo percussion music performed by Danish virtuoso Mathias Reumert. “Solo – Contemporary percussion meets Art Cinema” (Métier MSVDX102) was presented in the highest artistic quality with the visuals in the hands top movie director Christian Holten Bonke. The use of special lighting and other techniques makes the DVD […]

British composer James Whitbourn is the subject of a forthcoming album performed by Cor Cantiamo to be released by Divine Art later this year. Stephen Sutton, CEO of Divine Art Recordings Group, remarks that even though he has worked with some of the most acclaimed choral composers of today such as Morten Lauridsen, he is highly impressed with the works […]

John McCabe’s death in 2015 robbed us of both a brilliant and innovative composer and also an outstanding pianist whose particular love of Haydn and also a deep commitment to contemporary composers made him one of Britain’s most venerated musicians. Following the release in January 2019 of a recording made by McCabe of recent American […]

Divine Art Records will be releasing two more volumes this year in its continuing series Carson Cooman Organ Music. The extraordinarily talented and prolific writer, organist, composer and teacher, who among many activities is composer in residence at the Memorial Church at Harvard, was recently the subject of an extended feature in the Organ (UK). […]

Divine Art Records is working with composer Robin Stevens on two new recordings to be released this year. The summer of 2019 (exact date to be announced) will see the release of an album of works for wind instruments, titled Prevailing Winds which involves a host of exceptional musicians including Richard Simpson (oboe – BBC Symphony Orchestra) […]

Pizzicato gives full marks (♪♪♪♪♪) to the Divine Art Recordings Vyacheslav Artyomov Retrospective with highlights from the recent releases in the series: “Divine Art’s ongoing series with music by Russian composer Vyacheslav Artyomov comprises several CDs’ of which four are reviewed here. Artyomov’s music is mostly sombre and sorrowful, sometimes with the expression of anxiety. […]

Divine Art Records is delighted to announce the forthcoming release of a new album of music performed by Alexander Ffinch on the recently rebuilt organ of Cheltenham College Chapel.  “Transformations: A selection for Organ” will be released in the summer of 2019. The title reflects the composition style of the pieces on the album, which […]

Métier Records, the contemporary-music arm of Divine Art Recordings Group, is delighted to announce the forthcoming release of a superb work of cross-cultural interest based on the world of Rudyard Kipling’s “Kim”, tracing a journey across the Punjab of North India. The recording was actually made in the early 1990s shortly after the premiere but […]

The Winter 2019 issue of The Organ Magazine has an extensive feature on composer and artist Carson Cooman. You can hear his organ music in our new discounted set of 10 recordings by Erik Simmons! Carson Cooman has an impressive and growing discography. In particular, there is a series of ten CDs, under the rubric […]

For some years we have worked with Gramola Winter in Austria, and have been pleased to have their support. However things change and as from April 1, 2019, Naxos Deutschland will be our official trade distributor for Austria and will supply all dealers there. Of course we are always happy to accept direct orders which […]

Metier Records, the new-music label of Divine Art Recordings Group, has a fascinating new recording bringing together music by Robert Schumann and Tristan Murail. The album, to be released in June 2019, will be titled ‘Une rencontre’ (‘An encounter’) and is a meeting of Romantic and contemporary music, climaxed by the premiere recording of Murail’s […]

Ed Hughes’s FREE Professorial Lecture is on Wednesday 6 March from 6-7pm at the ACCA, University of Sussex. Ed will explore the tension between tradition and innovation from a personal perspective, with examples ranging from the Old Hall Manuscript (c. 1410-20) to his own Sinfonia, composed for the New Music Players last year. Featuring a […]

Following the success and critical acclaim of recent recordings, the British chamber ensemble Gemini is busy finalising a new collection of chamber works by Philip Grange which will be released by Métier in the summer. This CD of music by Philip Grange features Shifting Thresholds, a major new large-scale, structurally sophisticated work marking an important […]

Divine Art Records has announced its latest signing which will result in the release in early summer on the Metier label of a fascinating album of music inspired by the sounds of the Near East, performed by the Resident Artists of Cuatro Puntos. Each track comes from a personal collaboration or association between Cuatro Puntos musicians […]

Burkard Schliessmann‘s performance of Chopin’s Scherzo No. 1 in B Minor was a finalist in the International Acoustic Music Awards – competing against music from all genres and from musicians around the globe! Schliessmann’s Chronological Chopin recording, which features the Scherzo, was also a Global Music Awards Silver Medalist! Burkard Schliessmann recordings

Divine Art is delighted to announce, among a record level of new recordings projects in hand, two new albums featuring music by women composers from the UK, writing in very different styles. Jennifer Fowler is Australian, though she has lived and worked in England since 1969. Her music which spreads across many genres from orchestral to chamber, instrumental […]

Not long after finishing the sessions for a new album, clarinetist Nadia Wilson delighted us all with her new arrival Sofia-Rose who appeared on November 3rd. Nadia is now busy with her London Myriad Ensemble colleagues in preparation for the release of the new album “Four” which will be released in the summer (Metier Records […]

Each year a prestigious Pianoforte Festival is held in a different city in Poland. Many of the world’s most celebrated pianists regularly perform at this Festival. In February 2019 this Festival will be held in Sanok, in South-East Poland. Sanok is the birthplace of Ryszard Bakst and, twenty years after Bakst’s death, the complete Festival […]

EXPLORE Following the release of his fourth volume of Piano Sonatas by Baldassare Galuppi, Peter Seivewright will present a launch recital for the new album at Noon on Thursday, 7th February 2019 at Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh, Scotland. Program: Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785): Piano Sonata in D minor Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957): Piano Sonata No. 3  

English pianist Diana Boyle, who has lived in relative seclusion in Portugal for many years, is continuing her association with Divine Art and has recorded a new album of keyboard works by J.S. Bach. Ms Boyle takes advantage of her rural retreat to spend a great deal of time getting to know her music intimately […]