Giulio CesareIn all likelihood the most memorable aspect of Opera Ireland's winter season was always likely to have been the mere fact of …Tue Nov 20 2001 - 00:00
Don CarloOpera Ireland's artistic director Dieter Kaegi has in a remarkably short space of time, since the landmark SalomΘ of 1999, transformed…Mon Nov 19 2001 - 00:00
Carlos Bonell (guitar), NSO/Proinns∅as ╙ DuinnCapriccio espagnol - Rimsky-KorsakovMon Nov 19 2001 - 00:00
Kathryn Stott, Noriko Ogawa (pianos) Cl∅ona Doris (harp)The sharpness of the piano's percussive attack creates treacherous problems for piano duosMon Nov 12 2001 - 00:00
Tasmin Little (violin), Martin Roscoe (piano)Sonata in A minor, Op 23 - BeethovenMon Nov 12 2001 - 00:00
Sasha Rozhdestvensky (violin), NSO/Alexander AnissimovHungarian Dances 1,10, 6 & 5 - BrahmsMon Nov 12 2001 - 00:00
Camilla Tilling (soprano), Julius Drake (piano) Thomas Allen (baritone), Julius Drake (piano)Saturday's classical concerts at the Belfast Festival were both vocal recitals. Well, not quiteTue Nov 06 2001 - 00:00
A new life in BaroqueAs an opera conductor, RenΘ Jacobs knows his profession from both sidesTue Nov 06 2001 - 00:00
Kyoko Takezawa (violin), Rebecca Evans (soprano), Sapporo SO/Tadaaki OtakaStar Isle - TakemitsuWed Oct 31 2001 - 00:00
Louise Winter (mezzo soprano), Julius Drake (piano)First impressions of mezzo soprano Louise Winter at Saturday morning's opening Coffee Concert of the Belfast Festival were of…Tue Oct 30 2001 - 00:00
First version of Beethoven's only opera retains fascinationThere's no doubting the wisdom of Beethoven's revisions to his only opera, a work that we know in its final incarnation as Fidelio…Mon Oct 29 2001 - 00:00
La BohΦme at Belfast FestivalWelsh National Opera's La BohΦme, at the Grand Opera House in Belfast for performances on Tuesday and Thursday, has a well-worn…Fri Oct 26 2001 - 01:00
Theme of the redemptive power of music pursued with some vigourDvorak's "Jakob∅n" ("The Jacobin"), the second opera in the Wexford Festival's 50th anniversary programme, continues with strength…Mon Oct 22 2001 - 01:00
SaphoJules Massenet's "Sapho", which opened at the Wexford Festival on Saturday, has a plot that is intriguingly similar to that of…Mon Oct 22 2001 - 01:00
Arias are in the air at the opening of Wexford Festival OperaThese days, the German composer Friedrich von Flotow (1812-83) is remembered for a single work, the opera MarthaSat Oct 20 2001 - 01:00
Lars Vogt (piano), Detroit SO/Leif SegerstamThe Rosa Parks Boulevard movement from Michael Daugherty's Motor City Triptych was given its Irish premiΦre by the Detroit Symphony…Mon Oct 08 2001 - 01:00
The education of an artistThe Russian pianist Nikolai Demidenko is now such a well-known presence throughout the musical world that it would be easy to…Mon Oct 08 2001 - 01:00
Other revLa BohΦmeiewsMichael Hunt's Co-Opera has set out to service the middle ground of scaled-down popular opera on tourThu Sept 27 2001 - 01:00
Looking for extreme soundsIt is just nine years since Thierry Fischer, the new principal conductor of the Ulster Orchestra, made the much-travelled journey…Wed Sept 26 2001 - 01:00
Opera Theatre Company/David AdamsErismena Cavalli Opera Theatre Company has reached back into the earliest decades of operatic history to present in four historic…Mon Sept 17 2001 - 01:00
Regina Nathan (soprano), Linnhe Robertson (piano)Regina Nathan's recital at the NCH on Thursday may have included only seven of the originally advertised 16 items (and none of…Sat Sept 08 2001 - 01:00
Making his marks on the NSOFive-year-old prodigies on the piano or violin are ten a penny by comparison with 15-year-olds who can conduct with any degree…Wed Sept 05 2001 - 01:00
Excellent moments in an extraordinary testament to the human spiritMusic ProgrammesWed Aug 22 2001 - 01:00
Ensemble Pian e ForteHow much time can you bear to spend on one chord, or sequencing between the chords of the tonic and dominant? No, this question…Tue Aug 21 2001 - 01:00
Baroque programmeWednesday was an all-baroque day in the two major musical strands at Kilkenny Arts WeekSat Aug 18 2001 - 01:00
Baroque & Chamber Music SeriesThe festival's two main musical strands, one of baroque, the other mainly of 19th and 20th-century chamber music, began on Tuesday…Thu Aug 16 2001 - 01:00
NCC/Claudio BuchlerThe Oslo-born, Austria-raised chorus master and conductor Claudio Buchler is not a figure new to DublinSat Aug 11 2001 - 01:00
In search of light and shadeYou don't have to spend long in the company of Jean-Guihen Queyras to imagine him as having once been an irrepressibly hyperactive…Mon Aug 06 2001 - 01:00
Sonja van Beek (violin), Netherlands Youth Orchestra/Jurjen HempelTragic Overture - BrahmsThu Aug 02 2001 - 01:00
National Chamber Choir/Roger O DoyleThe penultimate concert in the National Chamber Choir's Making Connections series, on Thursday, was devoted to the music of Brahms…Tue Jul 31 2001 - 01:00
Franzita Whelan (soprano), National Youth Orchestra of Ireland/Eri KlasPrometheus Overture - BeethovenWed Jul 25 2001 - 01:00
Rufus Mⁿller (tenor), Maria Joπo Pires (piano)Adelai..........................................BeethovenTue Jul 24 2001 - 01:00
Concorde/Jane O'LearyConcorde, the new music ensemble directed by Galway-based composer and pianist Jane O'Leary, is presenting two programmes during…Tue Jul 24 2001 - 01:00
