May 2017New Release Sampler from Divine Art Recordings Group

Celebrating our 25th anniversary!

One track from each new album can be sampled on YouTube –just click the link!

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NEW RELEASES THIS MONTH:

Divine Art DDA 21701 (7CD)Schubert: The Complete Original Piano Duets(also issued as a tribute to the late Anthony Goldstone, passed Jan 2, 2017)Divine Art DDA 25145Enigmas: Elgar, Leighton, Rubbra, Bowen and SackmanMétier MSV 77206 (2CD)‘Intricate Web’ – String Quartets and other works by Liz JohnsonMétier MSV 28569Kevin Raftery: Chamber Music

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FRANZ SCHUBERT:COMPLETE PIANO DUETS

GOLDSTONE AND CLEMMOWfour hands at one piano

https://youtu.be/lbqYm-TL2vM

WORKS LISTING

SCHUBERT: all the original works for piano duet including -Polonaises, D.599; Polonaises, D.824 ; Grand Marches and Trios, D.819Deutscher Tanze, Ländler and Trios, D.618; Rondo in D, D.608Grande Sonate in B flat, D.617; Deutscher Tanze and Ecossaises, D.783Duo in A minor, D.947; Marches Caracteristiques, D.886Overture in G minor, D.668; Overture in F minor/major, D.675Grand Duo in C, D.812; Variations on Original Themes, D.603 and D.813Three Marches Militaires, D.733; Fantasies, D.1; D.9; D.48 & D.940Divertissements and Variations on French Themes, D. 624 & D.823Marches héroiques, D.602/1; D.885; Grandes marches funèbres,. D.859 etc.Allegro moderato and Andante, D.968Variations on a theme from Hérold’s Opera Marie, D.908SCHUMANN: Eight Polonaises in honor of Schubert

LINKED TITLES

DDA 25026, 25039 & 25139 Schubert ’Unauthorized’ Piano DuosDDA 21202, 21203 & 21204 Schubert Piano MasterworksDDA 25146 Mozart on ReflectionDDA 25028 Dvorak and Mendelssohn Symphonies for 4 HandsDDA 25020 Tchaikovsky for Four HandsDDA 25042 Grieg for Piano DuoDDA 25118 Rimsky-Korsakov for Piano Duoand many more Goldstone & Clemmow / Anthony Goldstone titles

RELEASE DATE: May 19, 2017

Marketing Points

Seminal and groundbreaking recordings

Remastered and repackaged in luxury box set

Issued in tribute to the late A. Goldstone

Many little-known major masterpieces

Top-ranking piano duo

Only complete set of Schubert’s duos

Booklet notes in English (40 pages)

Recorded in England in 1998-9

Album durations 78:09, 76:51, 79:22, 77:22,77:37, 75:26 and 75:39

Sample track on YouTube

CD and digital release

Order #: DDA 21701 (7CD box set)Barcode: (0)809730710126Artist: Anthony Goldstone and Caroline

ClemmowPrice Point: special priceLabel: Divine ArtGenre: Classical/piano duo

The importance of this set cannot be over-stated. First released on7 separate CDs by Olympia, it launched the international reputationof Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow as one of the world’sforemost duos, and it remains the only complete recording ofSchubert’s original duet compositions including many little-knownmasterpieces and one Polonaise completed by Goldstone fromSchubert’s unfinished manuscript. Each disc concludes with aPolonaise encore written by Schumann, inspired by Schubert. Theset represents the whole stretch of Schubert’s output from D.1 toD.968.

The performances are superb, exhilarating and perfectly integrated:the husband and wife team really do play like one person with fourhands.

Tragically, Anthony Goldstone died on January 2, 2017 while wewere finalizing the design work, and did not live to see the re-issueof this marvelous collection, repackaged and remastered as a boxset.

Distribution by Naxos

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‘ENIGMAS’

Elspeth Wyllie (piano) withCatherine Backhouse (mezzo-soprano)Claire Overbury (flute) : Hetti Price (cello)Alexa Beattie (viola)

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A varied range of masterful works from English 20th

centurycomposers – some familiar and all major works of importance. Elgarcomposed his Enigma Variations at the piano; it was alwayssuitable for a solo version and Elgar himself wrote this. Bowen’sFlute Sonata is well known – a Romantic staple – as is Leighton’sElegy, which deserves to be better known. The piano solo workFolio I is lively and full of fun, while the two Sonnets of Rubbra areexquisitely gorgeous and absolutely essential listening.

Fine performances by pianist Elspeth Wyllie who is anaccomplished soloist and chamber musician/accompanist, workingthroughout the UK and other countries. The young set of musicianshere show exceptional talent and musicianship in the recordedworks which are very varied yet make up a coherent concert album.

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ORKS LISTING

DWARD ELGAR:Enigma’ Variations, Op. 36 (composer’s own piano solo version)DWIN YORK BOWEN:onata for Flute and Piano, Op. 120ENNETH LEIGHTON:legy for Cello and PianoforteICHOLAS SACKMANolio I (suite for solo piano)DMUND RUBBRA:wo Sonnets by William Alabaster, Op. 87for medium voice, viola and piano)

https://youtu.be/Oljr6yQD8i4

Marketing Points

Varied program of Romantic and post-Romanticworks

Elgar’s own loved piano version of Enigma

Issued to celebrate Elgar’s 160th birthday

Some beautiful ‘discovery’ pieces

First class young ‘new generation’ artists

Premiere recording of Sackman work

Booklet notes in English

Recorded in England in 2016

Album duration 77:40

Sample track on YouTube

CD and digital release

Order #: DDA 25145Barcode: (0)809730514534Artist: see abovePrice Point: standard full priceLabel: Divine ArtGenre: Classical/chamber/piano

RELEASE DATE: May 19, 2017

Kevin Raftery:chamber music

Heath QuartetAnimare EnsembleBerkeley Ensemble

RELEASE DATE: May 19, 2017

Kevin Raftery is an American composer who has beenworking in the UK since 1989, and also plays bassoon, singscontemporary vocal music, and works as a Project Manager.His work is thoroughly modern, without classical limitations, butis also in turn lyrical, tuneful, dramatic and serene, givingappeal to more than just fans of modernist music. In fact this istop-class post-modern work. While the Quartet and Quintetare formal works, the Pleasantries suite is full of wit, based on‘figure of speech’ expressions.

The three ensembles here are all celebrated in their own right:The Heath Quartet, quartet in residence at MiddleburyCollege, Vermont, near to Metier HQ, have appeared at theBBC Proms, at Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center and havemade several acclaimed recordings. The Berkeley Ensembleand Animare Ensemble were both formed to explore modernchamber music as well as more traditional material: bothhave flexible configurations and employ some of the UK’s topsoloists and orchestral principals.

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WORKS LISTING

(all composed by Kevin Raftery)

String Quartet No. 1 (2012)Heath Quartet

First Companion (2012)Suite for clarinet, bassoon, violin and celloBerkeley Ensemble

Pleasantries (2011)Suite for oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet and bassoonBerkeley Ensemble

“Friedhof” Quintet (2011)for flute, harp, violin, viola and celloAnimare Ensemble

https://youtu.be/QNIH3ZHFGxI

Marketing Points

Fine contemporary/recent compositions

Varied chamber works by American composer

First recordings of all works

Recorded in England between 2011 and 2013

Album duration 66:12

Interpreted by leading young ensembles

Booklet notes in English

Sample track on YouTube

CD and digital release

Order #: MSV 28569Barcode: (0)809730856921Artist: Heath Quartet; Berkeley Ensemble;

Animare EnsemblePrice Point: standard full priceLabel: MétierGenre: Classical / chamberFormat: CD and digital

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Intricate Web:music by Liz Johnson

Loré Lixenberg (soprano)Ronald Woodley (clarinets)Fitzwilliam String Quartet

WORKS LISTINGnot in CD playing order(all composed by Liz Johnson, b.1964)

String Quartet No. 1 “Images of Trees”String Quartet No. 2 “For Elliott”String Quartet No. 3 “Intricate Web”Tide PurlFantasia Forty-somethingFitzwilliam String QuartetString Quartet No. 4 “Sky-burial”Loré Lixenberg (soprano); Fitzwilliam String QuartetClarinet Quintet “Sea-change”Ronald Woodley (clarinets); Fitzwilliam String QuartetReflections of an Eccentric English ArtistHeather Tuach (cello solo)Towards the SeaRonald Woodley (clarinet); Alan George (viola); Heather Tuach (cello)Sleep CloseLoré Lixenberg (soprano); Ronald Woodley (piano)Jo Shapcott Settings:Watching Medusa; Elephant Woman; Pig; Cabbage DreamsLoré Lixenberg (soprano)

https://youtu.be/XxtcRtFHoBo

Marketing Points

Exceptional contemporary compositions

Varied works by British composer

First recordings of all works

Recorded in England between 2014 and 2016

Album duration 78:14 + 79:23

Interpreted by leading ensemble and soloists

Booklet notes in English

All song texts printed in booklet

Luxury digipak and illustrated booklet

Sample track on YouTube

CD and digital release

Order #: MSV 77206 (2CD)Barcode: (0)809730720628Artist: Fitzwilliam String Quartet;

Loré Lixenberg, Ronald WoodleyPrice Point: double mid priceLabel: MétierGenre: Classical / chamber/contemporaryFormat: CD and digital

RELEASE DATE: May 19, 2017

Liz Johnson is a British composer with a very special gift and distinctivestyle, definitely in the avant-garde mold yet not totally alien to‘traditional-music’ lovers. ‘Intricate Web’ is not only the title of one of thequartets here (there are four numbered String Quartets and two otherworks for the quartet) but also accurately describes her compositionaltechnique which is complex and detailed, requiring top class performers.It may also describe the way in which the pieces here have beenassembled, splitting cello solos and vocal pieces between the quartets tocreate a web of fascinating sounds and textures.

The Fitzwilliam String Quartet is undoubtedly one of today’s mostcelebrated ensembles with a fine reputation in the world of new music.Cellist Heather Tuach plays solo in the breathtaking Cello Suite. SopranoLoré Lixenberg deals with the immense difficulty of the writing in the JoShapcott Settings and Ronald Woodley provides a magical performanceon several clarinets. In all, a superb introduction to a major composerdeserving wide recognition. Over 157 minutes of music!

COMING SOON

JUNE 2017

DDA 25148 THE PIANO AT THE BALLET II – THE FRENCH CONNECTIONRare transcriptions of ballet music by Poulenc, Debussy, Stravinsky, Asafiev, Sauguet, Françaix and ThirietAnthony Goldstone

ATH 23301 JOHANN MATTHESON – 12 Suites for HarpsichordGilbert Rowland

DDA 25151 SZYMANOWSKI: Piano MusicA super selection of works from Poland’s greatest 20th century composerBarbara Karaskiewicz

and many more ... including opera and ballet transcriptions, songs by Betty Roe, contemporary works for flute, baroque,solo violin works by J S Bach , contemporary music for brass by Fumiko Miyachi, the complete Beethoven piano sonatas,French music for piano duo, chamber works by Rob Keeley, piano music of Castelnuovo-Tedesco, piano concerto andsymphony by Marcus Blunt, and we add Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff to our Russian Piano Music series ... allin preparation.

JULY 2017

DDA 25154 ‘EXORDIUM’ – organ music by Carson CoomanThe fifth in our series of Cooman’s organ worksErik Simmons

more July releases being processed!

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