Review: Weinberg: Complete String Quartets (Silesian Quartet, Piotr Salajczyk)
Silesian survey of 20th-century masterworks vaults to top of the pile.
April 26, 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
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
On Stage: the events you need to see in April 2023
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
March 20, 2023
On The Record: New classical albums in April 2023
Biber’s Mystery Sonatas, Fabio Luisi’s Nielsen cycle impresses, and Matthias Goerne presents Schubert in Technicolor.
March 20, 2023
Review: The Unreleased Masters (Jessye Norman, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra)
From Isolde to Cleopatra, Decca unearths treasures the artist thought should languish in the vaults.
March 17, 2023
Universal snags Hyperion in major acquisition
The classical music giant promises independence and wider access to a fabled catalogue.
March 15, 2023
Review: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Claudia Huckle, Nicky Spence, Justin Brown)
Stripped down Mahler reveals intimate exoskeleton beneath the behemoth.
March 14, 2023