Claude Debussy centenary: Irish composers salute the masterIreland’s Tombeau to Debussy includes new pieces from seven Irish composers and a trio of NCH concertsWed Jun 13 2018 - 05:00
Great Music in Irish Houses: this week’s classical highlightsAlso: Billionaire orchestra Würth Philharmoniker, and Pipeworks at Christ ChurchSat Jun 09 2018 - 05:00
Blackwater Valley Opera Festival review: In need of some firm quality controlThe festival’s favoured production style is at the gag-rich, pantomime end of the spectrumWed Jun 06 2018 - 05:00
Prelude to a €74m makeover at the National Concert HallDirector Simon Taylor is at the wishlist phase for the redevelopment of the NCHTue Jun 05 2018 - 05:00
ConTempo Quartet does Beethoven: this week’s classical highlightsAlso: Kaleidoscope’s last in series; Fionnuala Moynihan surveys Schubert in Triskel, CorkSat Jun 02 2018 - 05:00
Sae Yoon Chon is first Asian winner of Dublin International Piano CompetitionThe groundbreaking 22-year-old from South Korea picks up €15,000 prizeWed May 30 2018 - 14:55
Conservative Dublin piano competition sees slight change of paceInternational competition has hardly changed in 30 years but has seen increased Asian participationWed May 23 2018 - 05:00
Divide and conquer: the true goal of the RTÉ orchestra report?The review on the RTÉ orchestras is anything but balanced – even absurd in placesWed May 16 2018 - 05:00
Instruments of change: how an orchestra is changing livesBaltimore Symphony Orchestra is working with disadvantaged schools to help open its doors to everybodySat May 12 2018 - 05:00
West Wicklow Festival at Russborough House: the best classical music this weekHighly acclaimed German baritone Benjamin Appl will colse the close the Dublin Song SeriesSat May 12 2018 - 05:00
Why should the taxpayer bail out RTÉ over orchestra mess?RTÉ has all but destroyed the National Symphony Orchestra. Should the State rescue an orchestra not fit for purpose?Wed May 09 2018 - 05:00
Classical music highlights of the weekJohn Luther Adams, Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits and RTÉ NSO with Christian VásquezSat May 05 2018 - 05:00
RTÉ has reduced its orchestras to a numbers gameThe Boaden review says the broadcaster should jettison the NSOWed May 02 2018 - 05:00
Alan Rusbridger and Gerald Barry’s Organ Concerto: the best classical concerts of the weekSligo International Chamber Music Festival is another highlight of the next seven daysSat Apr 28 2018 - 05:00
‘Living on the edge is the most fun’Dearbhla Collins, curator/planner of the upcoming Dublin Song Series, is hard at work with German soprano Juliane Banse rehearsing for their NCH concertThu Apr 26 2018 - 05:00
Busy classical music promoters suggest lifting of recessionIt helps, of course, that most of what was on offer was what you would call bankable fareWed Apr 25 2018 - 11:53
Will the Government simply let RTÉ off the orchestra hook?RTÉ’s management of orchestras in recent years was a calculated depreciation of assetsTue Apr 24 2018 - 00:05
RTÉ symphony orchestra should be funded by Government, review saysReport says National Symphony Orchestra should be established as separate cultural institutionMon Apr 23 2018 - 18:21
Mozart’s The Opera Director from Irish National Opera: the best classical music this weekThe RTÉ Concert Orchestra’s current Essential Classics series ends with a popular selection of Schubert and BeethovenSat Apr 21 2018 - 05:00
The risk and reward challenges facing Irish National Opera and WexfordThe new Irish National Opera is too risk-averse, while Wexford Festival's rare opera is not so rare anymore. And both need to engage with Ireland’s musical diasporaWed Apr 18 2018 - 05:15
The Marriage of Figaro review: setting high standards for Irish operaDirector Patrick Mason ’s light touch creates the happy illusion of a non-interventionist approachMon Apr 16 2018 - 15:00
Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra at the NCH: the best classical music this weekChoirland, a collection of 15 pieces for unaccompanied choir, goes on tourSat Apr 14 2018 - 05:00
Blurring the lines between speaking and singingThe spoken word overlaid with music – or should it be the other way around – actually has quite a long historyWed Apr 11 2018 - 05:15
'The Marriage of Figaro' and the redemptive power of loveDirector Patrick Mason on getting to the heart of Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro’, Irish National Opera’s new productionWed Apr 11 2018 - 05:00
Irish National Opera’s debut show: the best classical and opera this weekMusic Current 2018 offers a showcase of contemporary Irish electronic musicMon Apr 09 2018 - 12:00
Dublin piano competition celebrates 30-year anniversaryFounded by John O’Conor in 1988, the event gives free rein to competitorsWed Apr 04 2018 - 05:15
Handel’s favourite: this week’s classical highlightsTheodora in Clonard Monastery and Let’s Make Music in the Model, SligoSat Mar 31 2018 - 05:00
Louth music: Eamonn Quinn ‘first backstage laureate’ of Belmont PrizeFounder of Louth Contemporary Music Society singled due to ‘burning passion for contemporary music’Wed Mar 28 2018 - 05:15
Bach’s St John’s Passion, RTÉ NSO with Nicholas Kraemer: The best classical music this weekThere’s a Nordic affair at the NCH and the ConTempo Quartet mix things up in GalwaySat Mar 24 2018 - 05:00
Met showdown over James Levine ‘sexual misconduct’ firingConductor files $6m suit for ‘kangaroo court’ decisionWed Mar 21 2018 - 05:15
James Taylor, Tom Ó Drisceoil, Elisabeth Leonskaja and Alina Pogostkina: the best classical music this weekTaylor and Ó Drisceoil play rare two-harpsichord works; Leonskaja plays with the ICO; Pogostkina plays with the RTÉ NCOSat Mar 17 2018 - 05:00
Embracing the ethos of Sounding the FeministsA new commissioning scheme will provide opportunity to established and emerging [female] composers to have their work commissioned and performed at the NCHWed Mar 14 2018 - 05:15
Women composers find a voice: The week’s best classical musicFinding a Voice festival’s all-female finale; Vanbrugh & Michael McHale; Philippe CassardSat Mar 10 2018 - 05:00
Can anything be salvaged from the New Music Dublin Festival?There’s no way that the whole programme can be saved – it’s too big and too complicated for thatWed Mar 07 2018 - 05:15
Anna Tsybuleva and Jaime Martin: The best classical music this weekThe Russian pianist begins her Music Network tourSat Mar 03 2018 - 05:00
Powder Her Face review: Thomas Adès opera about Duchess of ArgyllDuchess’s sexual voracity is focus of opera with unflagging singers and INO OrchestraWed Feb 28 2018 - 17:02
RTÉ’s cuts to National Symphony Orchestra are no accidentDee Forbes wants to give the impression RTÉ is committed to maintaining two orchestras, but it has forced the NSO into a situation of atrophyWed Feb 28 2018 - 05:15
‘My first musical memory is standing in a cot listening to an old Telefunken reel-to-reel tape recorder’Musicians whose work will be at this week’s New Music Festival talk about their influences, ambitions and fearsTue Feb 27 2018 - 12:20
‘Powder Her Face’, New Music Festival: the best in opera and classical music this weekFrom the scandalous opera by Thomas Adès to new work by Crash EnsembleSat Feb 24 2018 - 05:00
Czech Philharmonic aquires middle-aged paunchThere were, of course, multiple pleasures along the way – this was a leading Czech orchestra playing some of the greatest Czech musicWed Feb 21 2018 - 05:15
‘Is opera an Irish artform? Of course it is’Opera is becoming ‘sexy again’ and Irish National Opera aims to capitalise on the new interest by bringing opera to the peopleSat Feb 17 2018 - 05:00
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Nathalie Stutzmann, Quentin Hindley: the best classical music this weekThe Czech orchestra is playing three times at the NCH; Stutzmann’s RTÉ NSO concerts are not to be missedSat Feb 17 2018 - 05:00
French Baroque back in vogue at the National Concert HallMagdalena Kozena makes singing seem like an entirely natural activityWed Feb 14 2018 - 05:15
The best classical concerts this week2012 Dublin International Piano Competition winner Nikolay Khozyainov returns to NCHSat Feb 10 2018 - 05:00
Estonian choir shows its choral pedigree at the National Concert HallRTÉ National Symphony Orchestra makes important exploration of Mozart and RameauWed Feb 07 2018 - 05:15
Treats for piano gourmands: this week’s classical highlightsEmmanuelle Haïm brings French baroque to Dublin, rising star Duncan Ward conducts the RTÉ NSO; and Dublin International Piano Competition winners perform in GalwaySat Feb 03 2018 - 05:00
Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto: the musician’s best friendIt is designed to make players sound better than they are – but a recent performance did the oppositeWed Jan 31 2018 - 05:15
Peter Whelan: a man of many partsWhelan has moved from wind section to the podium as artistic director of the Irish Baroque OrchestraMon Jan 29 2018 - 05:00
The best of the week’s classical musicThe Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Kaspars Putninš, The Vanbrugh, RTÉ NSO/Harry BicketSat Jan 27 2018 - 05:00
Director’s first full festival hoves into viewNew Music Dublin to open with Crash Ensemble on the front steps of the National Concert Hall at sunsetWed Jan 24 2018 - 05:15
