Divine-Art.com is a company that keeps track of different pieces of art.
Title
divine art record company
Description
In 1992, I lived in a very small village in Northumberland, England, by the name of Simonburn. I worked as a commercial lawyer, and also had many connections with the famous village church of St. Mungo, being both the Reader (lay minister) and the assistant organist. As part of the exercise to raise funds for the restoration of our fine Walker organ, I agreed to produce a recording. That was Divine Art's first release, on cassette only (now on CD24101). It came to the attention of music critics, and led to my meeting several musicians who enlisted my help in producing CDs; they in turn introduced me to colleagues, and though I never intended to become a record producer one thing led to another until now we have an international business, which has acquired a reputation for quality and for introducing new music and fascinating rarities. The company was first based in South Shields, where I carried on my law practice, but I now work from home in North Yorkshire, with a small warehouse in Stockton a few miles away.
In 2003 we acquired the highly-regarded Athene label, specialising in period piano perormances, and its sister label Athene-Minerva. For a time we also distributed other labels but have discontinued this, except that we do offer the fine catalogue of Move Records (Australia), the English Campion and Cameo titles, and the privately produced CDs of Jill Crossland (Calico Classics), Peter Katin (RP Music) and Dan Evans (Dansing). These arrangements were made as favours to friends and we cannot take on any more "other labels", although we are always happy to discuss releasing and distributing quality recordings on our own labels.
In April 2005 we launched the first in our new Historic Sounds series, in partnership with Pristine Audio, leaders in sound restoration. More releases in this series will follow drawing on the collection of the Northern Vintage Recordings Archive which I manage. Our new recordings of classical, romantic and baroque music continue, both at home at abroad, and we are also working with the British Music Information Centre in respect of recordings of contemporary British music.
Contact
Administrative:
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- Palisades Park NJ
- US 07650
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Registrant:
- Lewis & Co. Solicitors
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- South Shields
- UK NE33 2QX
