Métier, the new-music division of Divine Art Recordings Group, will release in April a new album of works by Paul Whitty, titled The Morning featuring leading new-music ensembles [rout] and Icebreaker. The composer writes: The Morning is an anthology of three works. Nature is a language – can’t you read? written for Icebreaker is a reorganisation or reconstruction of materials from Michael Gordon’s Yo Shakespeare, a classic […]

Divine Art Records is to issue in the spring of 2023 the first recording of the African-inspired 75-movement, 3-hour Afrikosmos by long-established South African composer Michael Blake.  The recording was made in June 2021 at the Menuhin Hall, Cobham, Surrey by pianist Antony Gray, whose recent Divine Art albums of piano works by Saint-Saëns have met with great success and glowing reviews. The […]

The latest addition to the Métier Records roster is the virtuoso saxophonist Anthony Brown, whose debut commercial recording, ‘Anthology’ will be released in the first quarter of 2023. The album includes seven world première recordings of brand new commissioned works for the saxophone. Each work has its own unique sound world, offering different, exciting new duo and solo works. The performers […]

The long-standing relationship between Métier and Michael Finnissy continues with a forthcoming album featuring the superb Marsyas Trio in collaboration with award-winning mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean.  The album is to be titled ‘Alternative Readings’ and will showcase solo vocal music by Michael Finnissy with diverse instrumental ensembles. Throughout his life and music, Finnissy has thought to bring apparently dissimilar things and people together, confronting the […]

A new album of chamber works by Sergei Rachmaninov is in preparation by Divine Art for release in the late spring of 2023.  The recording is taking place at two venues in Poland: the Łódź Academy of Music, and the Czestochowa Philharmony, and is due to be completed in early November 2022.  The principal performer is […]

The Métier New-Music label of Divine Art Recordings Group is to issue an album of music for a unique and amazing instrument! Basque accordionist Lore Amenabar Larrañaga has signed to the label for her debut album which will comprise eight works for the Quarter-Tone Accordion.  She explains the concept: “I am engaged in a detailed investigation of a […]

Divine Art Records adds to its roster of new releases for the first quarter of 2023 with a collection of superb and approachable music by Australian composer John Carmichael, whose overall style can perhaps best be described as neo-Romantic, and which will appeal to a wide audience which may not be keen on the more avant-garde new music.  […]

The New Year will see the release of a new album by esteemed American composer and organist Carson Cooman, from Divine Art. The label has issued a number of Cooman’s recordings and is also producing the series of Cooman’s own compositions played by Erik Simmons (currently at volume 15). The Divine Art catalog currently includes 199 of […]

Divine Art Records will step out of its usual classical-contemporary genres to release a special Christmas digital single. Light of the World is a beautiful new carol with words and music by Robin White, a well-known name in English light music circles, whose recent album From Russia (Divine Art DDA 25223) is proving successful  – and well–received by critics. […]

Métier Records, the new-music label of Divine Art Recordings, will be releasing many new titles in 2023, among them an organ recording of a rather unique nature! Les ombres du Fantôme is a set of fourteen improvisations created by Robert Sholl and Justin Paterson that act as thematic shadows of Gaston Leroux’s novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra (1910). They shadow the […]

Métier Records (the new-music arm of Divine Art Recordings) is delighted to announce the forthcoming release of an album of choral music by New England composer Rodney Lister, following a recording of chamber and vocal works (‘Faith-Based Initiatives’, Métier MSV 28618) which will hit the streets and online stores on September 9. The new album (title not yet […]

Divine Art Records, which itself has offices in both the USA and UK, is proud to announce a new album, recorded in London, of the ‘Spanish Meditations and Dances’ by the most excellent American composer Gregory Fritze.  The works are performed by two of England’s most celebrated soloists and regulars in the catalogs of Divine Art and […]

Burkard Schliessmann‘s At The Heart of the Piano release has been nominated for the 2022 OPUS KLASSIK Award in the Solo Instrumental Recording category! The OPUS KLASSIK is a top prize for classical music in Germany and is awarded by the Verein zur Förderung der Klassischen Musik e. V. The 2022 Award will be presented […]

In the world of serious recorder music, John Turner has been at the top of the tree for many years, as soloist and member of illustrious ensembles including the Academy of Ancient Music, English Chamber Orchestra, and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.  He features as the main attraction in ‘The Whistling Book’ – a double CD/digital album to be released worldwide […]

Following several well-received albums of Simon Mold’s vocal and choral music in recent years, a recording of his Lenten cantata Passiontide for soloists, choir and organ is currently underway in the UK. Premiered in Kent in 2009, Passiontide was conceived as an alternative to Stainer’s Crucifixion, telling the story of Holy Week in the manner of a small oratorio and including several […]

Divine Art will be adding another exceptionally talented composer to its roster soon. To be recorded later this year, the new album is a celebration of the chamber music of Devon-born composer Ian Stephens, who has made a name for himself with acclaimed works for choir, orchestra, brass band and small ensemble. A cellist himself, his deep love […]

Divine Art’s new-music label, Métier, is to release a new album of solos, duos and a trio by the Macedonian-born composer, violinist and educator Mihailo Trandafilovski — all written for close friends and long-term collaborators: Peter Sheppard Skærved (violin), Neil Heyde (cello), Roger Heaton and Linda Merrick (clarinets), Hugh Millington and Saki Kato (guitars), Roderick Chadwick (piano), and Mihailo himself. The recording will be issued on CD and in all digital formats in November […]

Divine Art’s new-music division, Métier, is to release an album of music for flute by Irish composer John Buckley. All will be premiere recordings, to be made under the composer’s supervision with engineer Chris Corrigan, in Belfast, Northern Ireland.  Chris has produced several previous albums for Divine Art and Métier, labels that are developing a strong relationship with the first-class […]

The irrepressible violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved is busy preparing quite a number of recordings, of both modern and ancient music, solo and with his Kreutzer Quartet. Next in line from the Athene label is a fascinating and historically informative collection of music from the cultural centre of Modena, around 1690.  The album contains eight pieces from the collection […]

English harpsichordist Gilbert Rowland is preparing the third volume in his ongoing series presenting the complete Suites for Harpsichord by Johann Jakob Froberger.  The album is to be recorded at Holy Trinity Church, Weston, Hertfordshire on 11-14 July 2022, with engineer John Taylor who produced all of Gilbert’s previous Divine Art and Athene recordings. The first two volumes […]