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More bang for your bucks: This week’s classical and opera highlights
Chamber music at the NCH; Irish National Opera company celebrates 2018 programme with 12 top singers; and Russian conductor Stanislav Kochanovsky debuts with RTÉ NSO
Early music – and earlier start times – for RTÉ NSO’s new season
Orchestra celebrates 70th anniversary with a wide-ranging concert programme
Electronic music is everywhere, except the classical mainstream. This should change
Three festivals showcased electronic works that deserve to be heard by a wider audience
Finghin Collins takes a lap of honour on his 40th birthday
NCH honours pianist by presenting him in solo recital as part of international series
Musical taste: There’s no accounting for it, especially new stuff
Last weekend’s New Music festival finally delivered on its celebratory promise
Music is a universal language – with some border checks
Of all new music, large-scale works with words travel least freely internationally
Waiting for Arts Council to get its opera house in order
The upside-down provision of opera in Ireland neglects works people want to hear most
Not fade away: which classical pieces are most popular?
A lucky few can follow their favourite groups and repertoires around the world. The rest of us have to take our chances when we can
Shocks in store from Gerald Barry while NI Opera dictates the pace
NI Opera’s ‘Turandot’ is stunning, while Leif Ove Andsnes enjoys stint at the NCH
Rachmaninov’s Vigil worth staying up for
Concerts by Resurgam and the RTÉ NSO and what operas producers want to put on
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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