Review: Uncovered, Vol. 1: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Superlative soloists and compelling chamber music from a quartet on a mission.
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.
Superlative soloists and compelling chamber music from a quartet on a mission.
The New York Phil's first Black Principal talks neglected composers and #TakeTwoKnees.
This month’s concert highlights from ABC Classic, independent radio and streaming.
A Belgian choreographer and Gluck make perfect bedfellows, Schnittke wins a convert and Osmo Vänskä delivers an unforgettable Mahler 10.
Sir Simon Rattle and bass-baritone Gerald Finley talk to Clive Paget about how Janáček spun something so profoundly philosophical out of a tale of foxes in a forest.
What’s happening on stage this month? We’ve put together a list of the most exciting events taking place in May 2021.
Vänskä's revelatory account lends unique conviction to Mahler’s final thoughts.
With Richard Tognetti and his players embracing change, Bach and the Beyond certainly feels like a taste of things to come.
Contemporary dance illuminates Classical opera in Cherkaoui’s fluid staging.
Sydney Philharmonia Choirs celebrates the long road back to live performance.
Stellar singing and dynamic pit-work rescue muddled futurist staging.
Christian Thielemann offers pace and detail despite mixed bag of soloists.
Based in London, Brisbane-born conductor Dane Lam had a diary full of international concerts, then COVID struck. He and his fiancée decided to return home – and it’s turned out better than he ever dared hope.