Wexford Festival Opera: Chorus and orchestra overcome Covid-restricted numbers with gusto

Flynn’s takes on the Irish tradition can come across as rather too emblematic

American composers Cowell, Rzewski and Monk are the attractions here

Ferenc Rados and Kirill Gerstein achieve a rare intimacy on these duets for one piano

Trio finds the colours and ebb and flow to bring out the mystery in the Ravel

In sure hands, the nail-plucked, metal-strung Irish harp displays an ethereal magic

Violinist Daniel Rowland and pianist Natacha Kudritskaya helm this appealing collection

Sensitive performances with a focus on pieces for piano with violin

Dego seems to have developed an immediate affinity for Paganini’s violin

Works by Irish composer Raymond Deane enclose a much longer piece by Ukrainian Valentin Silvestrov

Tara Erraught, Peter Whelan and the Irish Baroque Orchestra evoke Dublin in the 1700s

Antoine Tamestit and Cédric Tiberghien play with individuality and intimacy

Pieces by Jane O’Leary, Peter Dickson Lopez and Corrina Bonshek still resonate

The quartet achieves a well-nigh perfect balancing of parts that seems impossible

The pianist on Music for Galway and working on his repertoire during lockdown

The Irish-American composer wore a range of musical hats

The first in Louth Contemporary Music Society’s series of pandemic recordings

Singing and orchestral playing is on fire

The Kinsale composer’s work is dominated by morphings of electronic sounds

Widmann makes a passionate plea for this brilliant but oft-neglected German composer

The German recorder player explores how ‘earworms’ burrowed into European music

Singers will appear in Waiting for Shakespeare and Falstaff and more

Recordings have atmospheric vividness and rich spatialisation

Review: Irish composer’s soft-edged songs are perfect for nostalgic reconnection

Pure-voiced Caitríona O’Leary and friends draw on a range of medieval musical sources

Michael Dervan speaks to six composers about themes of grief, nature and lamentation

Italian-born Rosetta Cucchi has been involved with the festival since 1995

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Participants in the first Irish production of ‘The Return of Ulysses’ talk to Michael Dervan

Cabinet opts not to keep NSO within broadcaster or establish it as a separate institution

Deirdre Gribbin’s Kindersang addresses the plight of 10,000 Jewish brought to Britain and Northern Ireland the outbreak of the second World War

Helen Boaden’s report reveals treatment of orchestras that is counter-productive

Duchess’s sexual voracity is focus of opera with unflagging singers and INO Orchestra

Kendrick Lamar, St Vincent, Lorde, and SZA reigned supreme this year, while the Irish music scene has never been so vibrant

City of London Sinfonia at the NCH, ‘This Beach’ revived from Fringe, BBC’s ‘Howards End’