Michael Palin, Mike Leigh and Christy Moore: This week’s unmissable online events
Celine Byrne and Robert Webb also among the virtual attractions over next seven days
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
Kilkenny festival to present mixture of virtual and live events
‘Bringing people back together is really important,’ says director Olga Barry
The show must go on: Making opera in the lockdown age
Covid-19 restrictions did not stop INO from creating Seraglio - an upcoming mini-series
The best classical music events this week
Christmas concerts in various venues and the Ficino Quartet at the National Concert Hall
New director takes new musical direction at Kilkenny Arts Festival
Olga Barry’s first programme was scaled down in ambition, but delivered some big moments
The best classical music events this week
Soprano Majella Cullagh comes to Dublin for the RTÉ Concert Orchestra’s latest concert
Brahms steals the show at the Kilkenny Arts Festival
Brahms’s career saw many changes in the world of piano design and manufacture
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
Alan Rusbridger and Gerald Barry’s Organ Concerto: the best classical concerts of the week
Sligo International Chamber Music Festival is another highlight of the next seven days
Handel’s favourite: this week’s classical highlights
Theodora in Clonard Monastery and Let’s Make Music in the Model, Sligo
The best classical music this week: RTÉ NSO Christmas Gala
Lauma Skride, UO/Olari Elts – Ailish Tynan (soprano), ICO/Katherine Hunka (violin)
Easter weekend gig guide: Chelsea Wolfe, Talos, Todd Terry and more
Our critical picks of the very best of what’s on in the capital and around the country this weekend and beyond
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
Mixed-and-matched Mozart in a blast from the concert past
Freiburger Barockorchester pay no heed to modern approaches to concert structures
John Buckley’s enduring boyish enthusiasm for scintillating sounds
The composer compiles a classic Horizons programme at the NCH; and NI Opera bares all, with mixed results
Westport’s awake to the sounds of chamber music
It’s easy to compare the approaches of different instrumentalists at Westport Festival of Chamber Music
Killaloe Music Festival lets its hair down with a pared-back approach
St Flannan’s is a challenging acoustic for musicians; here their solution is an energetic approach
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