Ina Boyle: Songs – Singers and pianist do pared-back songs proud

The best classical music events this week

Christmas concerts in various venues and the Ficino Quartet at the National Concert Hall

Zee Zee tops the bill at the NCH: this week’s classical highlights

The Chinese pianist makes her Irish debut with the RTÉCO under Jonathan Bloxham

Musical ups and downs in a year of change and challenge

Year in Culture Review: Key directors stepped down, while performers stepped up in classical music and opera

From Mozart to Britten, the requiem will live forever

Composers have always been drawn to honour the dead with powerful, passionate music

A muscular, finely tuned engine at Westport Chamber Music Festival

The muscle cars of Cannonball Ireland were no match for the velvet sounds of Westport

Wild Atlantic airs in Westport: This week’s classical highlights

Westport Chamber Music Festival is back; plus Monteverdi’s ‘The Return of Ulysses’

Classical gig of the week: Westport Festival of Chamber Music

The historic setting of Westport House is the centerpiece of this fine boutique festival in Co Mayo featuring works by Grieg, Mozart, Bach, Shostakovich, Schumann and Fauré

Great Music in Irish Houses: this week’s classical highlights

Also: Billionaire orchestra Würth Philharmoniker, and Pipeworks at Christ Church

A sequence of visions of Chopin

It’s always a pleasure to meet so accomplished, so resourceful and so thoughtful a virtuoso as Russian Daniil Trifonov

Classical music highlights of the week: JoAnn Falletta’s NCH debut

Crash Ensemble celebrate 20 years with special performance and Nathalie Stutzmann leads the RTÉ NSO in Strauss and Mozart

Winter is coming: this week’s classical music highlights

Unfamiliar with Irish-language opera ‘Eithne’? You are not alone

This ‘unknown part of our cultural landscape’ written in 1909 warrants a full staging

Classical and opera highlights this week

Wexford Festival Opera begins while ‘Eithne’ is presented in a concert performance