Shining a light on Schubert at Kilkenny Arts FestivalAlfred Brendel plays along to probing essay: and who was being guyed in Crash Assembly piece?Wed Aug 23 2017 - 05:00
Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg/Gustavo Gimeno – Shostakovich Symphony No 1 etc – Suave and urbaneSHOSTAKOVICH: SYMPHONY NO 1 ETCOrchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg/Gustavo GimenoPentatone PTC 5186 6223Wed Aug 16 2017 - 17:01
From festivals to summer schools and lunchtime concertsThis week’s best classical concertsWed Aug 16 2017 - 13:00
Fire and triumphalism at this year's Kilkenny Arts FestivalPeter Whelan is at the start of a journey to uncover a neglected part of our musical legacyWed Aug 16 2017 - 05:00
Schubert dip and Caesar salad: Classical and opera treats this weekSchubert: Dreaming the Sublime, Giulio Cesare, and Rediscovering Irish State MusickThu Aug 10 2017 - 13:00
The countertenor: ‘It’s a Marmite voice – people either love it or hate it’After Iestyn Davies’s voice broke, finding his falsetto ‘accessed something inside of me’Thu Aug 10 2017 - 05:00
The new director of New Music Dublin has his work cut out for himThe experience of the festival has been like that of a child of warring parentsTue Aug 08 2017 - 16:45
Edinburgh 1742: Barsanti & Handel – Ensemble Marsyas/Peter Whelan album review: Baroque music gemWed Aug 02 2017 - 17:01
Opera on the line – a play with music or an opera?Donnacha Dennehy’s The Second Violinist, with a libretto by Enda Walsh, takes the phone in opera fully into the 21st centuryWed Aug 02 2017 - 06:45
The best classical performances to see this weekRussian fare and a 90th birthday celebration for Veronica DunneThu Jul 27 2017 - 13:00
The Royal Wind Music – Cosmography of Polyphony album review: An exploration into Renaissance musicWed Jul 26 2017 - 17:01
Frank McNamara gives a masterclass in how to handle mistakesThe pianist shows students how to handle the pressure of improvisationWed Jul 26 2017 - 08:54
The best classical performances to see this weekDublin International Piano Festival, opera at the Galway Arts Festival and 37th Chamber Music Festival in CastletownshendThu Jul 20 2017 - 13:00
Making music as a spontaneous, unpremeditated actMany great composers were also great improvisers, Mozart, Beethoven and Bruckner among themWed Jul 19 2017 - 05:00
The best classical performances to see this weekIrish mezzo soprano Tara Erraught comes to the National Concert HallThu Jul 13 2017 - 13:00
Fauré & Saint-Saëns - Works for Cello & Piano Brian O’Kane (cello), Michael McHale (piano) album reviewWed Jul 12 2017 - 17:01
The unpredictable magic of the new encounterWest Cork Chamber Music Festival director Francis Humphreys struck gold this year bringing together violinist Viviane Hagner, cellist Johannes Moser and pianist Barry DouglasWed Jul 12 2017 - 05:00
The best classical music concerts in Ireland this weekGiya Kancheli miniatures get an airing while Karen Ní Bhroin makes her RTÉ NSO debutThu Jul 06 2017 - 23:00
ORA/Suzi Digby - Many are the Wonders album reviewORA/Suzi Digby Many are the WondersHarmonia Mundi HMM 905284 4Wed Jul 05 2017 - 17:01
West Cork Chamber Music Festival gets the Hollywood treatmentComposer Hanns Eisler wrote the `Hollywood Songbook' while in enforced exile from GermanyWed Jul 05 2017 - 05:00
Arts Council announces new opera companyOpera Theatre Company and Wide Open Opera will merge to form new entityMon Jul 03 2017 - 09:44
The maverick who declared electronic music rubbishDespite denouncing Stockhausen as a charlatan, Brian Boydell was no traditionalist. And Salvatore Sciarrino at Silenzio further cements Louth Contemporary Music Festival’s reputationThu Jun 29 2017 - 09:23
Getting to know you: From Billie Holiday to the airport bluesAhead of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, five string players discuss their workThu Jun 29 2017 - 05:00
Bel Canto Paganini - Rachel Barton Pine (violin): rehabilitating the virtuosoBEL CANTO PAGANINIRachel Barton Pine (violin)Avie AV 2374 (2 CDs)4Wed Jun 28 2017 - 18:23
Irish opera picking up international awards as Arts Council decision imminentSmart money still on the Wide Open Opera/Opera Theatre Company bid to become the council’s new major opera supplierWed Jun 07 2017 - 05:00
Percy Grainger: Folk music - Claire Booth (soprano), Christopher Glynn (piano) album reviewWed May 31 2017 - 07:23
Early music – and earlier start times – for RTÉ NSO’s new seasonOrchestra celebrates 70th anniversary with a wide-ranging concert programmeWed May 31 2017 - 05:00
Hanns Eisler: Lieder Vol 1 review - featuring Holger Falk, baritone, and Steffen Schleiermacher on pianoWed May 24 2017 - 18:23
Who comes first: the conductor, the composer, or the orchestra?Striking the right balance between all the factors at play in a concert, and their effect on audience numbers, is an artform in itselfWed May 24 2017 - 05:00
‘I thought music college would be like Fame, with people hanging from chandeliers’From his earliest days in a rock band to his years in music college, David Fennessy realised he would be composing music rather than performing the works of othersTue May 23 2017 - 12:01
NI Opera's ‘Radamisto’ by Handel: great music, shame about the plotRussian composers shine at NCH; Tenebrae revisit Orthodox choral musicWed May 17 2017 - 05:00
Arts Council's row with Aosdána moves up the political food chainOpinion: Aosdána is part of a sticking-plaster remedy that masks shortcomings in supportWed May 10 2017 - 05:00
Electronic music is everywhere, except the classical mainstream. This should changeThree festivals showcased electronic works that deserve to be heard by a wider audienceWed May 03 2017 - 05:00
Various Artists: The Passing Sound of Forever – welcome to Jane O’Leary’s sound-worldWed Apr 26 2017 - 18:23
Aosdána is far from perfect but it costs peanutsWater charges refunds would pay the total annual cost of Aosdána for more than 30 years. So why is the Arts Council attacking itWed Apr 26 2017 - 06:00
Beethoven; Pössinger: Violin Concertos – A giant meets his lesser-known contemporaryViolin virtuoso Anton Steck finds dynamic connections between the two composersWed Apr 19 2017 - 18:23
Concert series out of tune on women composersOnly one woman composer features so far in the National Concert Hall’s International Concert Series for 2017-18Wed Apr 19 2017 - 06:00
Resurrecting music that existed before the founding of the Irish StateRecollections of Ireland at NCH focused on rarely-heard music composed before 1917Wed Apr 12 2017 - 06:00
Minister for Arts wants gender policies in place next yearMinister Heather Humphreys is asking cultural institutions to step up to the plate on genderWed Apr 05 2017 - 06:00
Two pianists play ‘Rite’ in a rare harmonious relationshipPianos are unforgiving when played in duos but that did not deter Hamelin and AndsnesThu Mar 30 2017 - 05:00
