Divine Art > Harp

Sacred Hearts & Secret Music / Musica Secreta, Celestial Sirens

1 CD / Divine Art / 2009-09-01

Works: Gregorian Chant: Cantabant sancti, canticum novum; Surge illuminare Jerusalem, text and short responsory; Amo Christum, responsory; Anonymous: Beata Agnes in medio flammarum (attrib. Palestrina); Amb...
Performers: Hawnt, Katharine; Kelly, Frances [Harp]; Roberts, Deborah [Soprano Vocal]; Wilkinson, Clare; Williams, Claire
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Ensemble: Musica Secreta

This recording of 16th Century liturgical music is intended as a soundtrack for the book Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant. The vocal ensemble Musica Secreta...continue...
Recording information: St. Mary de Haura, Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex (04/27/2009-04/29/2009)....continue...

Awake O Harp - Handel, Tournier, Thomas, Mathias, etc / Rachel Dent, Ronald Frost

1 CD / Divine Art / 2009-07-14

Works: George Frederick Handel: Concerto for Harp in B flat major, Op. 4 no 6/HWV 294; Work(s); Marcel Tournier: Etude de concert "Au matin"; Elder John Thomas: The Minstrel's Adieu to his Native Land, for ...
Performers: Dent, Rachel; Frost, Ronald

Rachel Dent studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and in 1999 received the United Kingdom Harp Association Award. She has given recitals as...continue...

Snell: Chamber Music for Harp / Skaila Kanga, et al

1 CD / Divine Art / 2008-12-09

Works: David Snell: Lyric Sonata, for harp, flute & viola; Elégie, for harp, flute & cello; Fantasie, for harp, clarinet & horn; Cavatina & March, for harp & flute; Intrada & Waltz, for harp & violin
Performers: Bissill, Richard; Bucknall, Nicholas; Busbridge, Judith; Crayford, Marcia; Dearnley, Caroline; Jones, Karen [Flute]; Kanga, Skaila [Harp]

Composer David Snell, himself a harpist, is known for his creative, progressive approach to the instrument. He is noted as a jazz harpist as well...continue...

From Wonderland to Heaven - James Cook / Frowde, Copeland, Scorah, Voces Oxonienses

1 CD / Divine Art / 2008-02-19

Works: James Cook: A Carrollean Symphony, for orchestra & chorus; Dyad, for solo voice, organ & harp (or chorus); Quaternion; Seven Motets of Sacred Love, for chorus; Iambic Anthems (12), for chorus; Body o...
Performers: Copeland, Kathryn; Frowde, Rufus; Scorah, Elizabeth
Conductors: Frowde, Rufus
Ensemble: Voces Oxoniensis

James Cook studied composition at Oxford University at post-graduate level and has worked briefly at Eton College. Although mainly a composer of scared music, he...continue...

Fantasie - Schumann, Damase, et al / Etienne Cutajar, et al

1 CD / Divine Art / 2007-09-18

Works: Robert Schumann: Adagio and Allegro for Cello and Piano in A flat major, Op. 70; Jean-Michel Damase: Aspects, for horn & harp; Peter Maxwell Davies: Sea Eagle, for horn solo, J. 183; Richard Strauss:...
Performers: Cutajar, Etienne; Mouriz, Clara; Podesta, Anne Marie Camilleri; Reid, John

Etienne Cutajar (b.1983) studied at the Royal Academy in London under Richard Watkins, Michael Thompson and Andrew Clark, and has already performed with such major...continue...

Empyreum - Heroines in Heaven - Music by James Cook

1 CD / Divine Art / 2006-12-26

Works: James Cook: There is a world above the sun, for voice & harp; Symphony for organ & harp; In heaven shall all be love, for choir; Trilogy for organ & harp; Heaven's eternal sunshine, for voice & organ
Performers: Clark, Jennifer; Hebbert, Augusta; Hudson, Sam; Phillipson, Tacye
Conductors: Frowde, Rufus
Ensemble: Voces Oxoniensis

The young British composer James Cook, whose music is clearly within the traditions of his predecessors Vaughan-Williams, Herbert Howells and Edmund Rubbra, studied at Oxford...continue...