Review: Der Fliegende Holländer (Metropolitan Opera, New York)
Gergiev's hand on the tiller makes heavy weather of Girard's new Dutchman.
March 4, 2020
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
Ludwig van Beethoven
Considered by many to be the greatest composer of all time, Limelight looks at the life, times and music of the trail-blazing Ludwig van Beethoven.
March 3, 2020
Review: Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer (Les Musiciens du Louvre/Minkowski)
A period-sound, Freudian Dutchman sails a complex sea.
March 2, 2020
Did you hear about… Schumann shirt-fronting Liszt?
The night the wizard of the keys found he could only push the little Leipziger so far.
February 28, 2020
Beethoven: Annus Horribilis
Beethoven shouldered his fair share of emotional vicissitudes over a lifetime, but his last twelve months were among the most trying of all. Clive Paget looks at the triumphs and the tragedies of the composer’s final year, while Brett Dean reflects on two of his own works that have been inspired by Beethoven’s complicated states of mind.
February 27, 2020
Review: All-Mahler Program (Budapest Festival Orchestra, Lincoln Center)
Iván Fischer's thrilling, instinctual BFO Mahler Five shows us what all the fuss is about.
February 26, 2020
Review: Kirill Gerstein in Recital (Carnegie Hall, New York)
Gerstein offers food for thought served up through the medium of a tangy Austro-Hungarian goulash.
February 22, 2020
Review: Beethoven: The Late Quartets (Danish String Quartet, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center)
One of today's great string quartets delivers unique accounts of Beethoven's music of the future.
February 20, 2020
Review: From Belcanto To Jazz: 150 Years Of Opera Phantasies (Volker Reinhold, Ralph Zedler)
Reinhold’s fiddle drags the opera fantasia into the 20th century.
February 19, 2020
Review: Janine Jansen, Jaap van Zweden & Tania León (New York Philharmonic)
Jansen is glorious in Brahms, while León offers a rich new work and a compelling nightcap.
February 18, 2020
Review: Beethoven: The Early Quartets (Danish String Quartet, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center)
Three Danes and a Norwegian exhibit crystal clarity and an imaginative eye to the future in early Beethoven.
February 11, 2020
Review: Gounod: Faust (Version 1859) (Les Talens Lyriques, Flemish Radio Choir/Rousset)
Gounod’s first thoughts crackle with maximum firepower.
February 6, 2020
Review: Poul Ruders Edition Volume 15
A trio of sparkling modern works gives a Danish master his latest due.
February 6, 2020