Diversions
Mid-price recordings.
Two years after Divine Art was launched, the company began to issue recordings at mid -price. Initially, this was because recordings (otherwise of very high quality) were a little too short in duration to justify a full price tag or were older recordings being issued on CD for the first time.
Later, it was decided to re-name the mid-price series "Diversions" and to expand its scope to cover a range of specialisms - so now the label carries re-issues from Athene (for example Peter Katin's highly acclaimed square-piano recordings), and from other sources, such as the French label SFP, but also brand new recordings of operetta and musical comedy, guitar, choral and organ msuic and much more.
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One of the most rewarding compilations of new 20th-century orchestral music I have encountered in a long time. These sparkling performances from Brian Schembri and the excellent Bournemouth... —
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An imaginative programme which places an early work alongside two mature masterpieces. The spontaneity of Haydn's musical invention is particularly well served by the energetic playing of the... —
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The Art of Peter Clinch
Trevor Barnard, Nehama Patkin & Peter Clinch, Petra String Quartet
Astra Chamber Orchestra & West Australian SO, V Williams & G. Logie-Smith
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Katin was once one of British pianism's big beasts, and this CD, though short on the requisite soulful beauty, reflects his swashbuckling style. The Variations have compelling force. —
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Innovations - Music for two pianos and percussion
Murray McLachlan & Kathryn Page (pianos), Heather Corbett & Stephen Burke (percussion)
This well-filled disc offers an opportunity to hear Maltese composer Charles Camilleri’s Concerto for Two Pianos and Percussion (2005), a work that aims to treat tonality, atonality and polytonality... —
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Blow the Wind Southerly
Songs of life and longing from the north east of England
Margarette Ashton (soprano) accompanied on historic instruments by Peter Harrison (flute), Rachel Gray (violoncello) & John Treherne (pianoforte)
