On the Record: October 2025
This month features a new opera by Jake Heggie, dramas by Handel and Bantock, Sheku Kanneh-Mason and a treasurable new symphony by Mark Isaacs.
September 22, 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 October 2025
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
September 22, 2025
Why do we hear less Tchaikovsky these days? Alpesh Chauhan has an answer
The British conductor talks benchmarks, challenges and orchestral relationships.
September 12, 2025
Review: Bantock: The Seal-Woman (Scottish Opera, John Andrews)
Bantock’s one and only opera deserves its haunting debut on disc.
September 8, 2025
Review: Alkan: Early Works & Juvenilia (Mark Viner)
Early works by a must-hear composer played by a must-hear pianist.
September 5, 2025
Giving Voice
American mezzo Joyce DiDonato is known for her musical versatility and her advocacy. She talks her love for Berlioz and commitment to opera.
August 25, 2025
Review: Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 (BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Alpesh Chauhan)
Chauhan’s Tchaikovsky survey goes from strength to strength.
August 25, 2025
On the Record: September 2025
This month features music by Tchaikovsky, Bruckner, Holst and Britten alongside international labels featuring Australian composers Malcolm Williamson and Liza Lim.
August 25, 2025
On Stage: the events you need to see in September 2025
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
August 25, 2025
Review: Reissues: Richard Wagner Edition – Bayreuth Festival
The stellar casts and conductors captured in this Decca Eloquence 25-CD box represent a golden age of Wagner singing.
August 22, 2025
Review: Shostakovich: Piano Quintet, Piano Trios (Julia Fischer, Nils Mönkemeyer, Oliver Schnyder Trio)
Shostakovich’s chamber music in imaginative new interpretations.
August 11, 2025
Cellist Zlatomir Fung on what makes for a good fantasy
The American cellist talks 19th-century showboating and finding his inner Carmen.
August 8, 2025
Palace Opera & Ballet announces 2026 season
Some great productions and big names but top of anyone’s must-see list should be the third instalment of Barrie Kosky’s intensely theatrical Royal Opera House Ring Cycle.
August 7, 2025