Divine Art Records

Artist: Trevor Barnard

  • Blue Wrens

    Blue Wrens

    Modern Piano Music from Australia.

    This disc contains world première recordings of works by some of Australia’s top contemporary composers. Trevor Barnard is an English pianist who moved to Australia many years ago and taught at The University of Melbourne as well as performing and writing articles and books on piano technique. He originally rose to overnight fame with his recording for EMI of the Bliss Piano Concerto with Sir Malcolm Sargent, now available on DDV 24106.

    All music on this disc is published by Keys Press, 66 Clotilde Street, Mount Lawley, WA6050, Australia.

  • Busoni Preludes & Bliss Piano Sonata

    Busoni Preludes & Bliss Piano Sonata

    This CD fulfils a long held ambition of Trevor Barnard who, following his pioneering recording of the Bliss Concerto in 1962, vowed someday to complete the double by recording the superb Sonata. Coupled with the amazing Preludes, these works deserve to be much better known. In early 2000 we re-issued that 1962 recording of the Concerto which Trevor made with the Philharmonia under Sir Malcolm Sargent (DDV 24106).

  • Bach Transcriptions and Australian Piano Music

    Bach Transcriptions and Australian Piano Music

    The first recording for some twenty years by a performer whose pioneering version of the Bliss Piano Concerto for EMI in the 1960s (now re-issued on Diversions DDV 24106) drew undiluted praise. Trevor plays the great Bach/Busoni transcriptions, Myra Hess’ version of “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” and (for the first time on CD) works by Australian composers Margaret Sutherland Felix Werder and Nigel Butterley.