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
Ronan O'Hara and RTECORonan O'Hora (piano), RTECO/Proinnsias O Duinn - National Concert HallMon Oct 25 1999 - 01:00
Letting voices sound in gloryPromoter Ellen Kent's regular presentations of opera productions from the backwaters of Eastern Europe are filling a clear niche…Thu Oct 21 1999 - 01:00
Message is missingAs a Polish composer of the 19th century, Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872) has been completely overshadowed on the international…Mon Oct 18 1999 - 01:00
Spirited offering SiberiaUmberto Giordano is now best remembered for his Andrea Chenier of 1896Mon Oct 18 1999 - 01:00
Bad in partsThe posthumous fame of the Hungarian-born, Vienna-based composer Karl Goldmark (1830-1915) rests primarily on two works, his …Sat Oct 16 1999 - 01:00
Vogler four bring the world to GalwayThe Vogler String Quartet from Berlin, recently installed as the new quartet-in- residence in Sligo, is much more than just an…Sat Oct 16 1999 - 01:00
Cloudy chillsRaymond Deane's new full-length chamber opera, The Wall of Cloud, opened at the Backstage Theatre in Longford on WednesdayFri Oct 15 1999 - 01:00
Pianist Schiff not at his bestFor his latest appearance in The Irish Times/NCH Celebrity Series at the NCH on Saturday, pianist Andras Schiff undertook a rather…Tue Oct 12 1999 - 01:00
Ludmilla Shilova (soprano)/Ensemble XXI Moscow/Lygia O'RiordanThe String Orchestra Ensemble XXI Moscow ended a new festival, Russian Music Days in Dublin, at the National Concert Hall last…Sat Oct 09 1999 - 01:00
Beethoven focus in NSO concert seriesRTE has announced details of the 1999/2000 series of subscription concerts by the National Symphony OrchestraThu Oct 07 1999 - 01:00
Michael Collins and guestsThe idea of a concert of chamber music among friends conjures up very special imagesFri Oct 01 1999 - 01:00
Slim musical pickings at a sell-out showThe Crash Ensemble has established something of a reputation not just for selling out their concerts, but for having to turn …Tue Sept 28 1999 - 01:00
ClassicalIt's a busy week. English clarinettist Michael Collins and friends are playing in Castlepollard, Waterford, Limerick and Dublin…Sat Sept 25 1999 - 01:00
Cora's festival dateThe astonishingly talented winner of the 1998 RTE Musician of the Future Competition, Cora Venus Lunny, has been as absent from…Sat Sept 18 1999 - 01:00
