Divine Art

Madrigali: Fire and Roses / Paul Mealor, Con Anima Chamber Choir

1 CD / Divine Art / 2011-10-24

Works: Morten Lauridsen: Madrigali, 6 Fire Songs on Italian Renaissance poems, for chorus; Ov è, Lass, Il Bel Viso?, for chorus (Madrigali no 1); Chanson éloignée, for chorus; Claudio Monteve...
Performers: Christie, Jillian Bain; Philip, Lorna
Conductors: Mealor, Paul
Ensemble: ; Con Anima Chamber Choir

Since its founding in 2001, Aberdeen's Con Anima Chamber Choir has built up an impressive reputation in the northeast of Scotland and further afield. The...continue...

Venice in Mexico

1 CD / Divine Art / 2010-10-25

Works: Giacomo Facco: Concerto à 5 in E minor, Op. 1/1 (Pensieri adriarmonici, Book 1); Concerto à 5 in A major, Op. 1/5 (Pensieri adriarmonici, Book 1); Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for strings & co...
Performers: Armas, Daniel; Lawrence, Miguel; Zogbi, Manuel
Conductors: Lawrence, Miguel

The soloists with the Mexican Baroque Orchestra include violin, psaltery and sopranino recorder. Together they offer concertos by Facco and Vivaldi. The Orchestra itself uses...continue...
Recording information: Las Torres Music School, Monterrey, Mexico....continue...

Inspiration: A Tribute to Maria Curcio

1 CD / Divine Art / 2010-10-15

Works: Franz Schubert: Ave Maria; Gioachino Rossini: La Danza; Heitor Villa-Lobos: Chôro no 5 for Piano "Alma brasileira"; Alfredo Casella: Variations sur une Chaconne, for piano, Op. 3; Artur Schnabe...
Performers: Curcio, Maria; Goldstone, Anthony; Schwarzkopf, Elisabeth
Conductors: Klemperer, Otto

Maria Curcio was a gifted pianist who became a perceptive and generous teacher of international repute. Anthony Goldstone, one of her pupils, offers this recording...continue...
Recording information: St. John the Baptist Church, Alkborough, North Lincolns (2009)....continue...

John Jeffreys: Idylls & Elegies

1 CD / Divine Art / 2010-06-01

Works: John Jeffreys: Serenade for Strings; Toby's Dreams and Elegy, for piano; Sweeney the Mad, for voice & piano; A Lyke Wake Dirge, for voice & piano; Elegy for John Fry, for chamber orchestra; Poem for ...
Performers: Bateman, Paul; Katz, Shelly; Smith, Kenneth [Flute]; Veira, Jonathan
Conductors: Page, Kenneth; Bateman, Paul

Welsh composer John Jeffreys destroyed the bulk of his work during the 1950s because of the antipathetic atmosphere of the then musical establishment and it...continue...

Peter Warlock: Collected 78rpm Recordings

2 CD / Divine Art / 2009-10-01

Works: Peter Warlock: Capriol Suite; Serenade for string orchestra; The Curlew, song cycle for voice & small orchestra; Captain Stratton's Fancy, for voice & piano; Good ale, for voice & piano; Flow not fas...
Performers: Armstrong, John; Cope, Cecil [Baritone Vocal]; Dawson, Peter; Goossens, Leon [Oboe]; Goss, John; Griffen, Eric [Piano]; Henderson, Roy; Jones, Parry; Magaloff, Nikita; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Natzke, ...
Conductors: Bernard, Anthony; Barbirolli, John; Lambert, Constant; ; Woodgate, Leslie
Ensemble: ; Trio Pasquier

One of England's great songwriters, Philip Heseltine, better known as Peter Warlock was once described as one of the most colorful talents in English 20th-century...continue...

Via Crucis (The Way of the Cross): A Cantata by Armando Pierucci

1 CD / Divine Art / 2009-09-01

Works: Armando Pierucci: Via Crucis (The Way of the Cross), cantata
Performers: Janutas, Algirdas; Misiura, Ignas; Skeryte, Gintare
Conductors: Grazinis, Romualdas

Franciscan Road

1 CD / Divine Art / 2009-09-01

Works: Gregorian Chant: Tota pulchra es, o Maria, canticle in mode 5; Ave Maria, Antiphon in Mode I; Magnificat; Kyrie eleison; Attende Domine; Pange Lingua gloriosi, hymn; Sanctus; Adoro te devote, hymn; V...
Conductors: Pierucci, Armando

Haydn: Stabat mater, Libera me Domine, Symphony no 44, etc / Bridier, Fantapie, Manzone, Petit, et al

2 CD / Divine Art / 2009-04-14

Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: Stabat Mater, H 20 bis; Symphony no 44 in E minor ("Trauer" /"Funeral"/"Letter E"), H. 1/44; Concerto for Violin & keyboard in F major, H. 18/6; Libera Me, for 4 voices, 2 violins...
Performers: Bondi, Anna Maria; Eder, Claudia; Heudron, Arlette; Krattinger, Jurg; Manzone, Jacques Francis; Petit, Francois; Reichardt, Axel
Conductors: Fantapié, Henri-Claude

The orchestral material used for the recording of the Stabat Mater and Libera was realized in 1968 for the Solistes de Paris and based on...continue...

Gounod: Faust / Sabajno, Romagnoli, Bosini, Autori, Timitz, et al

2 CD / Divine Art / 2008-11-01

Works: Charles Gounod: Faust
Performers: Autori, Fernando; Bosini, Gemma; Garrone, Nedda; Limonta, Napoleone; Pacini, Adolfo; Romagnoli, Giuliano; Timitz, Gilda
Conductors: Sabajno, Carlo

The original sound recordings for this release were made by The Gramophone Company, Milan in 1920. It was digitally remastered in 2008. The Italian libretto...continue...

Karol Szymanowski: Complete Piano Music / Sinae Lee

4 CD / Divine Art / 2007-05-09

Works: Karol Szymanowski: Prelude and Fugue for Piano in C sharp minor; Prelude, op.1 no 7; Variations, for piano in B flat minor, Op. 3, M5; Etude, op.4 no 3; Sonata for Piano no 1 in C major, Op. 8, M8; V...
Performers: Lee, Sinae
Conductors: Planert, Kim

"Lee's set is more "complete" than the others by virtue of three minutes; namely a never before recorded Prelude in C sharp minor from 1901....continue...

The Rosslyn Motet / Chartres Singers, Tallis Chamber Choir

1 CD / Divine Art / 2007-05-08

Works: Thomas J. Mitchell: The Rosslyn Motet, for chorus; Songs of the Chartres Labyrinth, for chorus
Performers: Hetherington, Feargus; Stewart, Peter; Thompson, Anthony; Wayne-Wright, Tim; Whistle], Malcolm Robertson [Tin
Conductors: Mitchell, Stuart; Gault, Philip

For five hundred years Rosslyn Chapel has held within its tapestry of stonework and carvings a musical mystery that has evaded scientists, musicologists and historians...continue...

Art of Peter Clinch - Australia's Greatest Saxophonist

1 CD / Divine Art / 2006-10-24

Works: William Lovelock: Concerto for saxophone & orchestra; Sketches (3) for clarinet & piano; Sonata for saxophone & piano; Eric Gross: Quintet for alto saxophone & string quartet, Op. 102; Geoffrey D'Omb...
Performers: Barnard, Trevor; Clinch, Peter; Patkin, Nehama
Conductors: Logie-Smith, George; ; Williams, Verdon
Ensemble: ; Astra Chamber Orchestra; Petra String Quartet

This disc is a great showcase of the talents of a remarkable musician. It's just as good an introduction to some wonderful music. William Lovelock...continue...

Sibelius - Historic Recordings / Kajanus, et al

1 CD / Divine Art / 2005-08-01

Works: Jean Sibelius: Symphony no 5 in E flat major, Op. 82; Symphony no 6 in D minor, Op. 104; Tapiola, Op. 112
Conductors: Kajanus, Robert; Schneevoigt, Georg
Ensemble: ; London Symphony Orchestra

Historic Performances in English / Goosens, et al

2 CD / Divine Art / 2005-08-01

Works: Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera
Performers: Blyth, May; Licette, Miriam; Mullings, Frank; Nash, Heddle [Tenor Vocals]; Noble, Dennis; Parry, Marjorie; Williams, Harold
Conductors: Buesst, Aylmer; Goossens, Eugene, Sir
Ensemble: ; British National Opera Company