Schubert: Dreaming the Sublime, Giulio Cesare, and Rediscovering Irish State Musick

‘Acis and Galatea’ has had its action propped up in a very Irish setting

A focus on Schubert and Stephen Rea performing the work of Oscar Wilde are the main highlights, though the festival features few women in main performing roles

The Mozart programme at Kilkenny Arts Festival featured compositions for mechanical organ and glass harmonica

Mozart is the focus of this year’s Kilkenny Arts Festival, and the English performer’s approach is unconventional

Dave Flynn’s Burren venture is an alternative to the massive 1916 centenary survey – but the fine print is bewildering

Stephen Rea, Loudon Wainwright III and Christian Blackshaw are among the highlights

The Irish Chamber Orchestra’s second attempt at taming the Mansion House room’s intractable acoustic brought some progress

Classical Music: The ensemble is to give a series of concerts in the dark; elsewhere, street opera proves a slippery business

The German composer clung to the same style throughout his career – do any modern counterparts keep the faith?

Richard Goode at the KBC Great Music in Irish Houses festival

Programmes are invaluable for concert-goers, and a little discussion from performers rarely does any harm

Disputes at the top level of the NCH are overshadowing more immediate concerns at the ground level

There is nothing in Mozart’s early output to match the compositions Mendelssohn wrote aged 16 and 17

Hadland brings new take on Norway’s greatest piano concerto

Wagner’s music narrows the space between listener and composer like no other