The best classical performances to see this weekIrish mezzo soprano Tara Erraught comes to the National Concert HallThu Jul 13 2017 - 13:00
Fauré & Saint-Saëns - Works for Cello & Piano Brian O’Kane (cello), Michael McHale (piano) album reviewWed Jul 12 2017 - 17:01
The unpredictable magic of the new encounterWest Cork Chamber Music Festival director Francis Humphreys struck gold this year bringing together violinist Viviane Hagner, cellist Johannes Moser and pianist Barry DouglasWed Jul 12 2017 - 05:00
The best classical music concerts in Ireland this weekGiya Kancheli miniatures get an airing while Karen Ní Bhroin makes her RTÉ NSO debutThu Jul 06 2017 - 23:00
ORA/Suzi Digby - Many are the Wonders album reviewORA/Suzi Digby Many are the WondersHarmonia Mundi HMM 905284 4Wed Jul 05 2017 - 17:01
West Cork Chamber Music Festival gets the Hollywood treatmentComposer Hanns Eisler wrote the `Hollywood Songbook' while in enforced exile from GermanyWed Jul 05 2017 - 05:00
Arts Council announces new opera companyOpera Theatre Company and Wide Open Opera will merge to form new entityMon Jul 03 2017 - 09:44
The maverick who declared electronic music rubbishDespite denouncing Stockhausen as a charlatan, Brian Boydell was no traditionalist. And Salvatore Sciarrino at Silenzio further cements Louth Contemporary Music Festival’s reputationThu Jun 29 2017 - 09:23
Getting to know you: From Billie Holiday to the airport bluesAhead of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, five string players discuss their workThu Jun 29 2017 - 05:00
Bel Canto Paganini - Rachel Barton Pine (violin): rehabilitating the virtuosoBEL CANTO PAGANINIRachel Barton Pine (violin)Avie AV 2374 (2 CDs)4Wed Jun 28 2017 - 18:23
Irish opera picking up international awards as Arts Council decision imminentSmart money still on the Wide Open Opera/Opera Theatre Company bid to become the council’s new major opera supplierWed Jun 07 2017 - 05:00
Percy Grainger: Folk music - Claire Booth (soprano), Christopher Glynn (piano) album reviewWed May 31 2017 - 07:23
Early music – and earlier start times – for RTÉ NSO’s new seasonOrchestra celebrates 70th anniversary with a wide-ranging concert programmeWed May 31 2017 - 05:00
Hanns Eisler: Lieder Vol 1 review - featuring Holger Falk, baritone, and Steffen Schleiermacher on pianoWed May 24 2017 - 18:23
Who comes first: the conductor, the composer, or the orchestra?Striking the right balance between all the factors at play in a concert, and their effect on audience numbers, is an artform in itselfWed May 24 2017 - 05:00
‘I thought music college would be like Fame, with people hanging from chandeliers’From his earliest days in a rock band to his years in music college, David Fennessy realised he would be composing music rather than performing the works of othersTue May 23 2017 - 12:01
NI Opera's ‘Radamisto’ by Handel: great music, shame about the plotRussian composers shine at NCH; Tenebrae revisit Orthodox choral musicWed May 17 2017 - 05:00
Arts Council's row with Aosdána moves up the political food chainOpinion: Aosdána is part of a sticking-plaster remedy that masks shortcomings in supportWed May 10 2017 - 05:00
Electronic music is everywhere, except the classical mainstream. This should changeThree festivals showcased electronic works that deserve to be heard by a wider audienceWed May 03 2017 - 05:00
Various Artists: The Passing Sound of Forever – welcome to Jane O’Leary’s sound-worldWed Apr 26 2017 - 18:23
Aosdána is far from perfect but it costs peanutsWater charges refunds would pay the total annual cost of Aosdána for more than 30 years. So why is the Arts Council attacking itWed Apr 26 2017 - 06:00
Beethoven; Pössinger: Violin Concertos – A giant meets his lesser-known contemporaryViolin virtuoso Anton Steck finds dynamic connections between the two composersWed Apr 19 2017 - 18:23
Concert series out of tune on women composersOnly one woman composer features so far in the National Concert Hall’s International Concert Series for 2017-18Wed Apr 19 2017 - 06:00
Resurrecting music that existed before the founding of the Irish StateRecollections of Ireland at NCH focused on rarely-heard music composed before 1917Wed Apr 12 2017 - 06:00
Minister for Arts wants gender policies in place next yearMinister Heather Humphreys is asking cultural institutions to step up to the plate on genderWed Apr 05 2017 - 06:00
Two pianists play ‘Rite’ in a rare harmonious relationshipPianos are unforgiving when played in duos but that did not deter Hamelin and AndsnesThu Mar 30 2017 - 05:00
Nymphs, shepherds and monsters in a rural Irish bar‘Acis and Galatea’ has had its action propped up in a very Irish settingWed Mar 29 2017 - 06:00
Arts Council out of tune with needs of opera worldKirkos Ensemble continues to stretch musical boundaries in new concert seriesWed Mar 22 2017 - 06:00
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Cédric Tiberghien (piano) – Bel Canto: The Voice of Viola reviewWed Mar 15 2017 - 16:15
Finghin Collins takes a lap of honour on his 40th birthdayNCH honours pianist by presenting him in solo recital as part of international seriesWed Mar 15 2017 - 06:00
Musical taste: There’s no accounting for it, especially new stuffLast weekend’s New Music festival finally delivered on its celebratory promiseWed Mar 08 2017 - 06:00
Thomas Adès - Asyla, Tevot, Polaris, Brahms album review: Orchestral manoeuvres as a larkWed Mar 01 2017 - 16:27
Fresh opportunities open up for Opera in IrelandArts Council is looking for applicants to provide ‘main-scale’ opera from 2018, as Opera Ireland finally gets something of a replacementWed Mar 01 2017 - 06:00
Ustvolskaya, Silvestrov, Kancheli - Works for Piano and Orchestra album review: Scorched sounds in an echo chamberUSTVOLSKAYA, SILVESTROV, KANCHELI: WORKS FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRaElisaveta Blumina (piano), Stuttgart CO/Thomas Sanderling ****Grand Piano GP 678Wed Feb 22 2017 - 16:15
Five years on, a musical virtuoso returns to IrelandDublin International Piano Competition winner 2012 Nikolay Khozyainov on formWed Feb 22 2017 - 06:00
Music is a universal language – with some border checksOf all new music, large-scale works with words travel least freely internationallyWed Feb 15 2017 - 06:00
St Petersburg Philharmonic brings Russian luxury to DublinRTÉ National Symphony Orchestra’s studied take on Mendelssohn and BrahmsWed Feb 08 2017 - 06:00
Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies Nos 4, 3, 6 - Royal Liverpool PO/Vasily Petrenko: plenty of fresh thinking behind the fervourTue Feb 07 2017 - 16:15
A conductor in search of the Furtwängler factorCristian Macelaru’s in-your-face style frees up the RTÉ NSO, perhaps too much soWed Feb 01 2017 - 06:00
