Divine Art Recordings is delighted to announce a forthcoming album of musical and historical importance, which presents first-ever recordings of works by the great Belgian composer Eugène Ysaÿe, whose known violin works are masterpieces of their genre. Fronting the album is Romanian violinist Sherban Lupu, who has been for almost ten years avidly researching the unpublished manuscripts left […]

The inaugural Ciccolini Competition for pianists was held at the beginning of the year – and of course was ‘virtual’ because of lockdowns. The jury, appointed by the Ciccolini Foundation as sponsors and organizers of the competition, made two awards, to the overall winner and runner-up, including a sponsored debut recording to be released by […]

Later this year Divine Art Records will release an album of Russian music arranged for clarinet and orchestra by Robin White. In some ways an old-fashioned potpourri of tuneful, enjoyable music, though all of the arrangements are new, the album presents some well-loved pieces in a new and fresh soundworld. The works include a new […]

Métier Records, the new-music imprint of the Divine Art group, is to release in the autumn of 2021 an album of works for violin solo and violin/piano by the esteemed Romanian composer Dan Dediu. The composer explains that all four works on this album share the process of hybridisation, i.e. they start from existing music and combine it […]

Métier Records is delighted to announce two related albums to be recorded this year featuring the music of esteemed British composer Edward Cowie. Since linking up with Métier (part of the Divine Art group) Cowie has seen two albums of string quartet and orchestral music respectively issued to enormous critical acclaim. Métier’s CEO Stephen Sutton […]

We were saddened to hear of the death on January 11 of British composer John G. Ramsay. John was a professor of geology by profession, but a very fine composer of both chamber and orchestral works. His style was basically tonal but also thoroughly inclusive, making use where appropriate of modernist and serial techniques. His […]

Important aspects abound in a new recording from Athene, featuring virtuoso violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved, to be released in the autumn. The album, titled ‘Florish in the Key’, presents John Walsh’s ‘Preludes & Voluntarys’ (published before 1704, 2nd edition 1705) and works by Thomas Balzar, providing a comprehensive survey of music for solo violin in […]

London-based Australian pianist Antony Gray has signed to the Divine Art label and will hit the markets with a resounding boom with three double-CD albums this year. Two of those sets are filled with the magical and almost unknown piano music of Camille Saint-Saëns, comprising original works and also several fantasies and transcriptions of music […]

We are sorry to learn of the passing of the celebrated soprano Jane Manning on 31 March, at the age of 82. From her first appearances, Jane became one of the foremost interpreters of contemporary vocal music; her rendering of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire  in 1965 is still regarded by many as definitive and she performed the work […]

Virtuoso German pianist Burkard Schliessmann will increase his representation in the Divine Art catalogue with a new triple CD/digital album entitled ‘At the Heart of the Piano’. The album consists partly of items from CDs previously issued by Bayer (nla) and new tracks not previously released. This issue follows Schliessmann’s two critically-acclaimed and award-winning SACD […]

Divine Art Records will be releasing towards the end of the year a new album of piano works by British composer Graham Lynch.   Writing for piano has been central to Graham Lynch’s composing for many years now. This new album is based mainly around recent works, and has been recorded by American pianists Paul Sánchez […]

The Fryderyk Award is the most important annual music award in Poland, and is awarded in 10 categories across classical music. The Huberman Duo & Trio (Barbara Karaśkiewicz, Magdalena Ziarkowska-Kołacka & Sergei Rysanov)’s recent 20th Century Polish Chamber Music album has been nominated in the “Best Polish Album Abroad” category! About the Fryderyk Awards: Fryderyki […]

Divine Art Records is delighted to announce the forthcoming release of an album of piano music by Scott Joplin and his collaborators.  Largely avoiding the well-known rags which have been recorded so many times, on this new album American pianist Marilyn Nonken explores the music and influence of Scott Joplin, on a unique recording that features rags, […]

Hot on the heels of the latest album of organ music by Carson Cooman (DDA 25218, “Antiphonies”) played by Erik Simmons, Divine Art returns to Cooman the performer for a new disc of music by Polish composer Marian Sawa. Carson Cooman is only 38 but has become one of the most important figures in American […]

In the medieval Scottish Borders, a young boy is bewitched – into the form of an ape, an adder, a speck of dust. But is it his shape that twists and churns, or that of the world around him? WOAD is a fashion-opera about metamorphosis and parallel worlds – from the team behind the groundbreaking WEAR (“spellbinding…an opera of rare […]

Organist Erik Simmons’ ongoing recording series of the organ music of American composer Carson Cooman continues with Vol. 14, a collection of diverse pieces from 2013–20. Two suites, Three Autumn Sketches after a Watercolor by Maria Willscher and Suite circulaire, are joined with a series of varied single movement piece—ranging from the intense, monolithic memorial of Preludio del ricordo, […]

Divine Art Recordings Group announces the forthcoming release on its Métier label of an album of music for solo violin by Hafliði Hallgrímsson, performed by the outstanding soloist Peter Sheppard Skærved. The great Icelandic composer Hafliði Hallgrímsson began his professional life as a virtuoso cellist. His deep understanding of the limitless potential of string instruments underpins […]

British composer Robin Stevens (b. 1958) is embarking on a recording of his music for cello and piano, to be recorded in the first three months of 2021. The performers are Nicholas Trygstad, lead cellist of the Manchester-based Hallé Orchestra (with whom he recently played the Elgar Cello Concerto), and David Jones, Head of Keyboard […]

A new mini-album or ‘EP’ is to be launched later this year by Métier, the new-music division of Divine Art Recordings. The sole work on the new recording is the 25-minute ‘Great Women’, for voice and electronics, by Irish composer Gráinne Mulvey, performed by Elizabeth Hilliard. This work was commissioned by the Great Music in Irish Houses Festival […]

Divine Art Records is delighted to announce the forthcoming re-issue of a stunning recording by Riverside Symphony of orchestral works by the Romanian-French composer Marius Constant (1925-2004). Best known in the classical world for his ballet scores, his most widely known work is the original theme to the TV Series ‘The Twilight Zone’.  His “pure” orchestral music […]