On The Record: New classical albums in June 2023
The King’s Singers celebrate “Tom and Will”, Poles propel Weinberg string quartets to the top of the list, and it’s another great month for women composers.
May 22, 2023
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 June 2023
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
May 22, 2023
Review: Cavalieri: Rappresentatione Di Anima Et Di Corpo (Il Giardino Armonico, Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Giovanni Antonini)
In world’s first opera, moral debates and souls in torment have seldom felt such fun.
May 19, 2023
Review: Offenbach: La Vie Parisienne (Musiciens du Louvre, Romain Dumas)
Christian Lacroix serves up a riot of colour in the original Parisian sex comedy.
May 10, 2023
Tim Mead and Purcell: A match made in heaven
The British countertenor talks text, musical line, and those tricksy bottom notes.
May 8, 2023
Review: Weinberg: Complete String Quartets (Silesian Quartet, Piotr Salajczyk)
Silesian survey of 20th-century masterworks vaults to top of the pile.
April 26, 2023
Review: Beauteous Softness (Tim Mead, La Nuova Musica, David Bates)
Mead’s eye for detail shows Restoration masterpieces in their true colours.
April 24, 2023
On the Record: New classical albums in May 2023
This month, Tim Mead’s Beauteous Softness does what it says on the can, there’s new music from First Nations composers, and classics from Benjamin Grosvenor and the Brodskys.
April 24, 2023
On Stage: the events you need to see in May 2023
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
April 24, 2023
Review: Psyché (Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset)
Rolls Royce Lully from Rousset and his sprightly band out of Versailles.
April 11, 2023
Amandine Beyer on music, dance and the devilish art of scordatura
The baroque violinist explains how choreography inspired her new recording of Biber's Rosary Sonatas.
April 3, 2023
Review: Auber: Le Philtre (Luiza Fatyol, Adina Vilichi, Patrick Kabongo, Emmanuel Franco, Eugenio Di Lieto, Kraków Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra, Luciano Acocella)
Auber’s zesty elixir offers a tonic that's as lip-smacking as Donizetti’s.
March 22, 2023
When Music Talks
What is a KeyScanner? Pianist and technophile Zubin Kanga show us how it works and how it's used in his latest piece from his London lab.
March 20, 2023