On the Record: March 2025
This month features Spanish Baroque opera, castanets and all, pitch-perfect Mahler from Simon Rattle, and the winner of a notorious song contest (hint: it isn’t Eurovision).
February 24, 2025
Clive Paget
Clive Paget is a former Limelight Editor, now Editor-at-Large, and a tour leader for Limelight Arts Travel. Based in London after three years in New York, he writes for The Guardian, BBC Music Magazine, Gramophone, Musical America and Opera News. Before moving to Australia, he directed and developed new musical theatre for London’s National Theatre.
Articles by Clive Paget
On Stage: the events you need to see in March 2025
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
February 24, 2025
Review: Weldon: The Judgment of Paris (Academy of Ancient Music, Julian Perkins)
Prize-winning opera turns out to be a winner after all.
February 15, 2025
Review: War Silence (Roberto Prosseda, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nir Kabaretti)
Where are all the Italian piano concertos? An album sets the record straight.
February 9, 2025
Review: Apothéose infernale (Yi Lin Jiang)
An original take on Ravel’s ballet, whatever you might call it.
February 7, 2025
Rumon Gamba on rediscovering the music of Ruth Gipps
The BBC said she wasn't a composer. How wrong can you get?
February 5, 2025
Review: Gipps: Orchestral Works Vol. 3 (Martin Owen, BBC Philharmonic, Rumon Gamba)
Chandos’s Gipps series just gets better and better.
January 27, 2025
Review: Grace Williams: Orchestral Works (BBC Philharmonic, John Andrews)
Channelling her inner Sibelius, Grace Williams brings Wales to musical life.
January 20, 2025
Review: Dvořák: Complete Works for Violin and Piano (Jiří Vodička, David Mareček)
Czech duo brings musicality and dash to Dvořák’s violin music.
January 17, 2025
The Hallé’s Kahchun Wong on Britten’s gamelan-inspired ballet
The Singaporean conductor explains how one composer succeeded where many failed.
January 9, 2025
Waking the Dead
What is it like to rediscover a centuries-old work by Mozart? We talk to an academic who exhumed a forgotten 12-minute serenade and a musician who recorded it.
December 20, 2024
Review: Britten: The Prince of the Pagodas (The Hallé, Kahchun Wong)
Hallé’s new broom sweeps the cobwebs from Britten’s ballet.
December 20, 2024
On the Record: January/February 2025
Essential holiday listening includes a Britten rarity, stunning recordings of Elgar and Tippett, a pair of oddball operas, and three outstanding discs of orchestral music by women.
December 20, 2024