The Sunday Times has released their Top 100 Recordings of 2020 and Ed Hughes: Time, Space and Change on Métier made the list! “The title alludes to England and its music. Cuckmere: A Portrait is the transformed score for a film about a river, the idiom a cheerily naturalised minimalism.” See the full list at TheTimes.co.uk

Divine Art Recordings Group (Athene division) will be adding to its highly praised Great Violins series in the spring of 2021 with the fourth volume, featuring a ‘Brothers Amati’ instrument from 1629, played as usual by the virtuoso Peter Sheppard Skærved. In practice the violin was most likely produced by Girolamo Amati with his son […]

Our latest release from our Vyacheslav Artyomov Retrospective, Album XI, featuring a selection of live and studio performances of Artyomov’s chamber works performed by top Russian musicians has been nominated for the 2021 International Classical Music Awards for Contemporary Music! Album XI Vyacheslav Artyomov is considered by many to be Russia’s greatest living composer. His […]

Divine Art Records To Collaborate With Aldo Ciccolini European Arts Academy Divine Art Records, independent classical music group based in England and the USA, is to collaborate with a major Italian music foundation to establish a new and unique online piano competition to be held at least once a year. The Ciccolini Prize Competition is administered […]

We note that pianist and historian Oliver Davies died in July aged 81. An exceptional musician and mine of information on any subject of musical history, he will be sadly missed. And tragedy struck young cellist Alexander Buzlov who apparently suffered a fatal blood clot and passed away on 8 November, at the age of […]

Now available in time for the holidays for all music lovers in your life — you can purchase a gift certificate in any amount to be used by the receiver to buy any item from the Divine Art online store: CD, digital audio, sheet music, and more! Better still as a thank you for introducing […]

English composer Peter Hope reaches his 90th birthday on November 2nd, 2020. Famous for his very longrunning theme for BBC TV news, and of course his wonderful Divine Art album ‘Wind Blown’ (DDA 25137). We send our very best wishes and virtual cake to Peter on this special day.

Divine Art is to produce a new album of piano works performed by young Italian star Alfonso Soldano. Titled ‘’Metamorphoses” the programme includes piano transcriptions, some well-known and some receiving the first recording, including Soldano’s own set of 15 Romances, Books 1-3, after Rachmaninov songs. The recording is due to be made in Italy in the […]

High Romantic piano works and transcriptions make up the latest album from Turkish-American pianist Zeynep Ucbasaran, to be released early in 2021 by Divine Art Records.  The year 1847 saw Franz Liszt arrive in Istanbul (then still called Constantinople) to spend six weeks in the Ottoman capital. Liszt created much interest with the public and in the Sultan […]

Over the past few years, Divine Art Records and its new-music imprint Métier have developed an ongoing series of albums of music by composers from the Irish Republic, to quite considerable critical acclaim.  The latest addition to this collection will be the first album celebrating the choral music of Rhona Clarke, a Dublin based composer who has […]

We were sad to learn of the passing of British composer Justin Connolly who died on September 29. Justin was born in 1933 and studied composition and conducting with Peter Racine Fricker at the Royal College of Music, earning prizes in both categories. His early music was very much influenced by serialism but was all […]

Get ready for the final Divine Art releases of 2020 with previews of five great recordings on our YouTube Channel: Coming 9 October 2020 Pre-Order Pre-Order Pre-Order Coming 13 November 2020 Pre-Order Pre-Order

Métier is the new-music label of the Divine Art Recordings Group, based in Vermont, USA, and in the UK. Its recent albums of new string quartets by English composers Robin Stevens and Edward Cowie has helped to kindle a new interest in the contemporary work in this genre and February will see the release of a new […]

Ed Hughes and his work, “Cuckmere: A Portrait”, from his album, Time, Space & Change, was featured on BBC South East Today as it has been integrated into a new app called Echoes: Interactive Sound Walks. So the next time you’re visiting the Cuckmere Valley and Haven in East Sussex, you can listen to the […]

Divine Art Edition is now live: having acquired a small catalog of titles from Brandon Music, the list will expand with plenty of scores of music appearing on our recordings.. Find ‘shop’ in the menu bar and click ‘scores’. PLEASE NOTE: we only sell PDF files to download and print ()or play from screen). Printed […]

Divine Art Recordings are preparing an album of keyboard works by J.S. Bach, played by English pianist Jill Crossland, which will be officially released on January 8, 2021 though available direct from Divine Art as CD or digital download from mid-December. The recording was originally issued in 2003, on the Calico Classics label which was devoted to […]

Following the exceptionally fine response from customers and critics to recent albums of music by Edward Cowie, Divine Art’s Métier label is now planning the release early next year of a new recording of chamber works concentrated on the guitar. ‘Stream and Variations’ includes music for solo guitar, two guitars, woodwind/guitar and one major work for two violins.  Composer […]

Presto Classical interviews Peter Sheppard Skærved on three of his latest recordings across the Divine Art Recordings Group family of labels: Violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved has championed contemporary and lesser-known music for much of his career; recently a triple-bill of albums came out that underscored this interest. In the first, Skaerved explores the Klagenfurt Manuscript, […]

Divine Art Records is delighted to announce the signing of Canadian ensemble Trio de l’Île for its debut album with a mix of Argentinian and Armenian music. The CD will include Astor Piazzolla’s Four seasons, Gayané Chebotaryan’s Trio and Arno Babadjanian’s monumental Piano Trio, generally regarded as a masterpiece of the genre. The album focuses […]

‘THE SEGOVIA LEGACY’ TO BE RECORDED BY BRITISH GUITARIST RAYMOND BURLEY The latest signing to the Divine Art label is acclaimed British guitarist Raymond Burley who is to record a new album in homage to the great Andrés Segovia. ‘The Segovia Legacy’ is a programme of works written for and recorded by the great Spanish […]