Jörg Widmann, Denis Kozhukhin, Irish Chamber Orchestra: Weber review – glowing composer brought out of the shadows
Widmann makes a passionate plea for this brilliant but oft-neglected German composer
Jörg Widmann: Conductor of the Irish Chamber Orchestra, trying to fill the space
Energetic German talks lockdown listening, mooching through Munich and pining for crowds
Byrne and Workman soar with intensity in Korngold’s masterpiece
The huge orchestra required for Die tote Stadt made the NCH right for the Irish premiere
The best classical music gigs happening this week
Mendelssohn’s longest symphony and a project to remember the late John Lynch
Jascha Heifetz’s New York debut turned up the heat on violinists
The 16-year-old’s recital in 1917 had Mischa Elman remark, ‘It’s hot in here, isn’t it?’
Widmann, Znaider, Terfel: The best classical music concerts this week
Beethoven’s knottiest composition opens ICO’s programme; Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel at NCH
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
Three classical music concerts to see this week
British clarinettist Katherine Spencer with the ICO, Yury Revic and Benedict Kloeckner on short tour and Chamber Choir Ireland perform David Fennessy work
Roll Over Beethoven - and Hoffman: this week’s classical highlights
Jean-Christophe Spinosi conducts the ICO; Claudia Boyle in ‘The Tales of Hoffman’
The highs and lows of Eugene Downes in Kilkenny
He brought an opera focus to Kilkenny Arts Festival, but new music was neglected
Kilkenny Art Festival focusing on piano and chamber music of Brahms
Festival director Eugene Downes’ term to come to an end after five years at the helm
Louth music: Eamonn Quinn ‘first backstage laureate’ of Belmont Prize
Founder of Louth Contemporary Music Society singled due to ‘burning passion for contemporary music’
James Taylor, Tom Ó Drisceoil, Elisabeth Leonskaja and Alina Pogostkina: the best classical music this week
Taylor and Ó Drisceoil play rare two-harpsichord works; Leonskaja plays with the ICO; Pogostkina plays with the RTÉ NCO
The best classical concerts this week
2012 Dublin International Piano Competition winner Nikolay Khozyainov returns to NCH
Schubert dip and Caesar salad: Classical and opera treats this week
Schubert: Dreaming the Sublime, Giulio Cesare, and Rediscovering Irish State Musick
Nymphs, shepherds and monsters in a rural Irish bar
‘Acis and Galatea’ has had its action propped up in a very Irish setting
Kilkenny Arts Festival announces programme for 2017
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 unusual final year of Mozart’s life gets an airing in Kilkenny
The Mozart programme at Kilkenny Arts Festival featured compositions for mechanical organ and glass harmonica
Christian Blackshaw takes Mozart to places others cannot reach
Mozart is the focus of this year’s Kilkenny Arts Festival, and the English performer’s approach is unconventional
A strange forum for Irish composers whose noses are out of joint
Dave Flynn’s Burren venture is an alternative to the massive 1916 centenary survey – but the fine print is bewildering
Kilkenny Arts Festival announces its 2016 programme
Stephen Rea, Loudon Wainwright III and Christian Blackshaw are among the highlights
Jörg Widmann fights the Round Room – with some success
The Irish Chamber Orchestra’s second attempt at taming the Mansion House room’s intractable acoustic brought some progress
Kirkos Ensemble are drawn to the dark side
Classical Music: The ensemble is to give a series of concerts in the dark; elsewhere, street opera proves a slippery business
An incurable romantic: who is the Max Bruch of the 21st century?
The German composer clung to the same style throughout his career – do any modern counterparts keep the faith?
Michael Dervan’s cultural highs and lows of 2014
Richard Goode at the KBC Great Music in Irish Houses festival
When it comes to music performance, talk isn’t cheap, it’s invaluable
Programmes are invaluable for concert-goers, and a little discussion from performers rarely does any harm
NCH rows: stop the squabbling and focus on the fundamentals
Disputes at the top level of the NCH are overshadowing more immediate concerns at the ground level
I prefer Mendelssohn’s early stuff (to Mozart’s)
There is nothing in Mozart’s early output to match the compositions Mendelssohn wrote aged 16 and 17
Presenting Grieg with a freshness and grandeur
Hadland brings new take on Norway’s greatest piano concerto
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