ClassicalThe Mostly Modern Festival, which opens at the Bank of Ireland Arts Centre tomorrow afternoon, is an extension of the Mostly …Sat Mar 04 2000 - 00:00
Crash Ensemble - Temple TheatreThe major train-inspired piece of the first half of the 20th century was Honegger's Pacific 231Tue Feb 29 2000 - 00:00
Crash cut a dash with mix mashThe Crash Ensemble, which has been enlivening the new music scene in Ireland for over two years now, makes its first appearance…Sat Feb 26 2000 - 00:00
Maxim Vengerov (violin), Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord, piano)Sonata in B minor BWV1014 - BachTue Feb 22 2000 - 00:00
ClassicalThe Music Network's greatly expanded Musicwide scheme, which makes one-off concerts by Irish musicians available around the country…Sat Feb 19 2000 - 00:00
Cutting to the heart of the workFew operatic premieres in these islands have created quite the advance stir of Mark-Anthony Turnage's The Silver Tassie, which…Fri Feb 18 2000 - 00:00
RSNO Chorus, Belfast Philharmonic Choir, Ulster Orchestra/Kazushi OnoSymphony No 8 - MahlerTue Feb 15 2000 - 00:00
Olivier Charlier (violin)Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes - BrittenMon Feb 14 2000 - 00:00
The violinist vs the harpsichordistIdeas of crossover and fusion often leave one with questions about which element is likely to dominate or to be best servedSat Feb 12 2000 - 00:00
The Marriage of FigaroBrian Brady's new production of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, sung in Jeremy Sams's English translation and performed in a reduced…Fri Feb 11 2000 - 00:00
Arditti quartet display inspirational authorityQuartet No 2 - Krzysztof PendereckiTue Feb 08 2000 - 00:00
Grigori Zhislin (violin), Ulster Orchestra/Krzysztof PendereckiDe Profundis - Krzysztof PendereckiMon Feb 07 2000 - 00:00
ClassicalIt was a grand if not grandiose notion of TCD to put on a performance of Mahler's Eighth Symphony, the so-called Symphony of …Sat Feb 05 2000 - 00:00
StravinskyIgor Stravinsky: A Creative Spring, Russia and France, 1882-1934, by Stephen Walsh. Jonathan Cape 699pp, £30 in UKSat Feb 05 2000 - 00:00
Warm and romantic Polish avant-gardeThe music of Krzysztof Penderecki, one of the leading lights of the Polish avant-garde in the 1960s, took an unexpected turn …Sat Jan 29 2000 - 00:00
ClassicalPlaying the keyboard music of Bach on the piano is no longer the threatened activity it once seemed destined to becomeSat Jan 15 2000 - 00:00
£35m to support and develop artsThe development of the new £35 million academy for the performing arts is much more than a limited gesture in the area of professional…Thu Jan 13 2000 - 00:00
John O'Conor (piano), NSO/Alexander AnissimovSymphony No 10 - Beethoven/CooperTue Jan 11 2000 - 00:00
ClassicalLeonard Bernstein was aged 31 in 1949, when he completed his Second Symphony, The Age of AnxietySat Jan 08 2000 - 00:00
Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Christ Church Baroque/Mark DuleyMessiah - HandelWed Dec 08 1999 - 00:00
Raphael Oleg (violin), NSO/Proinnsias O DuinnRomeo and Juliet - Tchaikovsky ViolinMon Dec 06 1999 - 00:00
Cathedral date for Vanbrugh and VoglerArts Plan and innovative community projects or no, it seems that not everybody in Sligo appreciates the arts in the form of the…Sat Dec 04 1999 - 00:00
ClassicalThe Sligo Contemporary Music Festival continues today and tomorrow in the Blue Raincoat Theatre on Lower Quay StreetSat Nov 27 1999 - 00:00
ClassicalHugh Tinney rounds off his survey of the Beethoven piano concertos at the National Concert Hall on Tuesday with a performance…Sat Nov 13 1999 - 00:00
Welsh visitors brave opera impasseArts Council of Northern Ireland withdrew funding from Opera Northern Ireland, it promised not to shrink its opera budgetSat Nov 06 1999 - 00:00
Rolf Hind (piano), Jacques Tchamkerten (ondes Martenot), UlsterOrchestra/Thierry FischerTurangalila-symphonie - MessiaenMon Nov 01 1999 - 00:00
ClassicalTHE two forthcoming Irish programmes by Austrian baritone Wolfgang Holzmair (above) - in Dublin at IMMA on Wednesday, at the …Sat Oct 30 1999 - 01:00
