Divine Art Records

Product Cat: Recording

  • Stevenson Passacaglia

    Stevenson Passacaglia

    This is a very important release for lovers of 20th century music, featuring one of the most fascinating and important piano works of the 20th century. Passacaglia is, first, one of the longest continuous solo keyboard pieces ever written. It has collected almost a cult following. It is also a piece of wide variety, collecting in influences from the music of many places, but based strongly and closely throughout on the initials DSCH (for Dmitri Schostakovich). We were pleased to dedicate this disc to the composer in celebration of his 75th birthday.

    Pianist Murray McLachlan is one of Britain’s leading exponents of modern music. He has recorded 2 previous CDs for Divine Art and also for Dunelm and Olympia.

    See his 3-CD set of Stevenson’s music (given the IRR ‘outstanding’ award’) on DDA 21372.

  • Aaron Copland: Piano Music

    Aaron Copland: Piano Music

    This is a very important release for lovers of 20th century music, featuring the major solo piano works of one of America’s most revered composers, and includes all of Copland’s major piano works.

    Pianist Raymond Clarke is one of Britain’s leading exponents of modern music. He has recorded 5 other CDs for our Divine Art, Diversions and Athene labels, feauring highly acclaimed performances of outstanding modern masterpieces.

  • De Profundis

    De Profundis

    Father Pierucci’s first cantata to words by Regina Derieva, “Via Crucis” was described as “a major find” and ” a remarkable work” by critics. Pierucci writes in a tonal and very listenable style but with a distinctive voice of his own, and this new work, using a chamber ensemble rather than organ, takes as its basis a short, haunting motif, used in variation form in all the movements. This work, like “Via Crucis” is highly recommended to choirs and choral societies.

    PIERUCCI: DE PROFUNDIS
    Gintaré Skeryté (mezzo-soprano)
    Aidija Chamber Choir
    Vilnius String Quartet:
    Audroné Vaini­ūnaité (violin 1); Artūras Silale (violin 2)
    Girdutis Jakaitis (viola); Augustinas Vasiliauskas (cello);
    with Giedrius Gelgotas (flute); Gintautas Jocius (double bass)
    Directed by Romualdas Gražinis

  • The Schubert Piano Masterworks, Vol. 2

    The Schubert Piano Masterworks, Vol. 2

    “This is perhaps the greatest version of the work I have ever encountered, either live or on disc”. (review in Fanfare magazine referring to the A major sonata, D.959)

    “One of the greatest recordings ever made of the [A major sonata]” (review in International Piano magazine)

    See details for Volume One and Volume Three as well as the low-priced bundle.

  • Tchaikovsky for Four Hands

    Tchaikovsky for Four Hands

    With CDs numbering over forty and a busy concert schedule, the British piano duo Goldstone & Clemmow was firmly established as a leading force until the untimely passing of Anthony Goldstone. This CD, the first recorded by the duo for Divine Art, presents the only available recordings of 3 fantastic works. The disc has received great critical acclaim and has been one of our best selling discs. See their complete list of fine recordings here

  • Shostakovich & Panufnik Piano Music

    Shostakovich & Panufnik Piano Music

    This is a very important release for lovers of 20th century music, featuring the world première recording of the entire solo piano music of Sir Andrzej Panufnik (born in Poland but naturalised a British citizen), and some lesser-known miniature masterpieces by Dmitri Shostakovich.

    Pianist Raymond Clarke is one of Britain’s leading exponents of modern music. His seven recordings for Divine Art, Diversions and Athene have all been highly acclaimed.

    With thanks to the Music Department, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

  • Woodworks

    Woodworks

    For those who think the recorder is just a boring instrument for young schoolchildren, here is the proof of the opposite!

    This CD contains classic works by Handel, Vivaldi and Couperin but also new and exciting works by contemporary composers. Accompanied by a fine chamber ensemble, Australian performer Tamara Gries shows, in the words of Prof. David Tunley (University of Western Australia) that “the recorder is truly a fine and expressive instrument that finds a deserved niche in music of our own century as well as in that from earlier times”.

  • 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.

  • Brahms, Beethoven & Wood – Clarinet Trios

    Brahms, Beethoven & Wood – Clarinet Trios

    The Trio made its debut in Madrid in 1994, and its first, acclaimed appearance at the Wigmore Hall in 1997. The Trio has appeared on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and has recorded the music for several BBC TV documentaries. John Bradbury is principal clarinet of the BBC Philharmonic and his identical twin Adrian appears with the London Sinfonietta and other highly regarded chamber groups. Emily Segal made her concerto debut at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. The work by Hugh Wood was commissioned by the Trio for the Cheltenham International Music Festival and this is its first recording.

    Trio Gemelli are: John Bradbury (clarinet) – Adrian Bradbury (cello) – Emily Segal (piano)

  • Fifty Years of Music Making

    Fifty Years of Music Making

    This is a special album.It was produced as a limited edition product to celebrate 50 years in performing by Peter Katin, one of the great names of British pianism and includes recordings personally chosen by Katin to typify the composers and works which with he became most closely associated.

  • The Schubert Piano Masterworks, Vol. 1

    The Schubert Piano Masterworks, Vol. 1

    The first of three volumes containing some of the greatest piano music ever written, played by Schubert specialist Anthony Goldstone

    All three volumes have been widely praised for the quality of Goldstone’s performances.

    See details for Volume Two and Volume Three as well as the low-priced bundle.

  • Galuppi Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2

    Galuppi Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2

    In the second of a series of CD’s containing Galuppi’s sonatas, we present a further nine of these masterpieces. All music lovers should sample these seminal works, which made Galuppi one of the greatest composers of his day; all the more strange that he should have fallen into such obscurity.

    Peter Seivewright has spent a good deal of time on a research mission to Venice and other European cities, retrieving the unpublished manuscript scores and preparing performing editions. One of the great revelations brought about by this work is that Galuppi, far from being a straightforward baroque composer writing for the traditional keyboard instruments (harpsichord and clavichord), which have been employed in all previous recordings, actually waited until the piano had been developed before creating most of his phenomenal output. Many of the original manuscripts are titled “Sonata for Pianoforte”, and much of the writing, making substantial use of the sustain pedal, simply do not work on the earlier instruments.

    Also see:
    Volume 1
    Volume 3
    Volume 4