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Carolyn Enger

Coming Soon from Métier Records: Carolyn Enger’s “Resonating Earth”

Divine Art’s new-music label Métier welcomes acclaimed pianist Carolyn Enger to its quickly-growing international roster for a new album to be released in the summer. Resonating Earth features the music from Enger’s multimedia project of the same name. The program directly links classical music performance to environmentalism and conservation efforts with a bold aesthetic. A […]

Justin Connolly

Métier Announces a new album of music by Justin Connolly

The English composer Justin Connolly (1933-2020) is the subject of an inspirational new album to be released later this year  by Divine Art/Métier. In a 1988 interview Pierre Boulez spoke about the British music that interested him during what he described as ‘golden years’ in London. He named only five composers (with Britten and Tippett notable […]

Kevin Bowyer at organ © Katy Cooper

Announcing James Cook Organ Symphonies performed by Kevin Bowyer

Foremost British organist Kevin Bowyer makes his first appearance on the Divine Art label with a recording of two symphonies for organ by James Cook. This will be the ninth album of Cook’s music from Divine Art, ranging from operatic extracts, many organ works, and sacred choral and vocal compositions.  The two works on this new album are his Symphony No […]

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March brings the Lenten and Easter Seasons, and we have two recordings that are perfect to welcome the season. The most recent is Simon Mold’s Lenten Cantata, Passiontide, and the second is our Pilgrim’s Star release of Via Crucis, a cantata by Armando Piernucci.

“Simon Mold’s ‘Passiontide’ is a masterpiece. It’s a strikingly accessible work that explores a range of emotions with a sure feel for word-setting and an irrepressible tunefulness capable of gravitas, poignancy and lingering beauty.”

Classical Music Daily on Simon Mold’s Passiontide

“Soprano Gintare Skeryté is particularly impressive. The music is not especially dramatic, but it is often impassioned… order the physical disc when you are as impressed as I’m sure you will be. DISCOVERY OF THE MONTH APRIL 2011.”

—MusicWeb International on Via Crucis

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What The Critics Are Saying…

This is a great resource for representing British contemporary music. Ronald Woodley should be congratulated on actively expanding the music available today for the basset horn and bass clarinet.

” —Adrian Connell, Clarinet & Saxophone Magazine

I did smile to see the conductor was Shea Lolin…so even before I pressed play, I knew I was in for a treat. I was not disappointed; the recorded sound is great and the ensemble playing is superb with lovely dynamic contrasts, great articulation…All five pieces on the album are world premiere recordings and all are deeply descriptive in nature.

” —Adrian Connell, Clarinet & Saxophone Magazine

The recording quality is second to none and compliments the often intimate nature of these improvisations…I enjoyed this release immensely…The impact is sensuous, inventive and often fantastic.

” —John France, MusicWeb International

Beville’s playing is excellent, fast yet delicate and agile, capturing both the whimsy of the shorter pieces and the reverence of others.

” —Jem Condliffe, Congleton Chronicle

This is an approachable album of American choral works…the variety…makes for an enjoyable programme.

” —Jem Condliffe, Congleton Chronicle

Without invoking the names of poets Coleridge and Poe, nor the contemporary musician Berlioz, Schliessmann raises the deliberate ambiguities, harmonic and structural, in Schumann’s oeuvre that invoke the darker hues of imaginative expression.… Schliessmann’s realizations of the Schumann scores, therefore, bear the agogic and polyphonic textures that invoke menace and uncertainty, even while an otherwise placid surface presents itself, as in the familiar Arabeske in C. The recording from Berlin’s Teldex Studios, utilizing the Dolby Atmos process, has done Schliessmann’s keyboard good service.… Highly recommended, both to read and to audition.

” —Gary Lemco, Audiophile Audition

With Robert Schumann: Fantasies, Burkard Schliessmann has opened up new horizons for Schumann interpretation. His performances combine the intellect necessary to understand Schumann’s music, the highest level of poetry and just the right instinct for timbres, agogics and tempo.

” —Daniel Höhr, Schumann-Portal

Captured in superlative sound, his Steinway instrument is caught magnificently…Under Schliessmann’s fingers, the music seems to strive for an unknown other, and yet the search emanates from a heart at peace. Burkard Schliessmann, in his finest offering yet, offers a homage to Schumann for the ages.

” —Colin Clarke, Fanfare

“…an exceptional performance here…This is an impressive recital that ’parallels’ old and new favourites.”

” —John France, MusicWeb International

Welcome to Divine Art Edition! Set up in the summer of 2020, we publish music primarily by composers whose music is recorded on Divine Art albums. Sheet music has been part of the Divine Art “repertoire” for several years (previously under the umbrella of ‘Brandon Music’) and we’re proud to present here a collection of original works by composers including John Garth, Eric Craven, John R. Williamson, John Ramsay, Smaro Gregoriadou, Jonathan Richards, Alphonse Catherine and Jacques Durand. Many more titles are now in preparation.