Review: Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 (BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Alpesh Chauhan)
Chauhan’s Tchaikovsky survey goes from strength to strength.
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.
Chauhan’s Tchaikovsky survey goes from strength to strength.
This month features music by Tchaikovsky, Bruckner, Holst and Britten alongside international labels featuring Australian composers Malcolm Williamson and Liza Lim.
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
The stellar casts and conductors captured in this Decca Eloquence 25-CD box represent a golden age of Wagner singing.
Shostakovich’s chamber music in imaginative new interpretations.
The American cellist talks 19th-century showboating and finding his inner Carmen.
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.
Gardner decants old wine into new bottles as label turns 20.
Star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason talks to Clive Paget about his new album, Shostakovich & Britten, and new book, The Power of Music, a candid memoir and call to action.
The Australian World Orchestra's Chief Conductor Alexander Briger has programmed Mahler’s Fourth and Fifth Symphonies in one concert. Madness or genius?
The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.
This month features operatic fantasies for cello, Shostakovich quartets, new albums from the Seraphim Trio and Andrea Lam, and the latest in Simon Rattle’s Janáček project.
Lalo’s masterpiece gets the modern recording it so richly deserves.