French Baroque back in vogue at the National Concert Hall

Magdalena Kozena makes singing seem like an entirely natural activity

The best classical music this week: Daniil Trifonov makes NCH debut

RTÉ Contempo Quartet play Beethoven while Peter Whelan directs Irish Baroque Orchestra performance of Handel’s Messiah

The Irish Baroque Orchestra’s Musical Joke falls flat

The IBO’s take on Mozart’s Musical Joke trample it to the level of the Dumb and Dumber movies

Feast of Russian miniatures: This week’s classical music highlights

Elisaveta Blumina in Dublin, RTÉ Contempo Quartet on tour and Irish Baroque Orchestra

Five years on, a musical virtuoso returns to Ireland

Dublin International Piano Competition winner 2012 Nikolay Khozyainov on form

Irish Baroque Orchestra: Concerti Bizarri - luscious colours and deep sonorities

Haydn a highlight as orchestral season begins with pleasant surprises

Irish Chamber Orchestra’s Gábor Takács-Nagy brings a fresh and fun approach to the composer’s symphonies

Bach cut with Mendelssohn: a bit like painting over early artworks

Adulterating Bach with Mendelssohn at a concert at the NCH was dreadfully misguided

An early music duo, and ‘Carmen’ by way of ‘Tallafornia’

Early music was on the agenda at two concerts, while OTC’s ‘Carmen’ was defiantly contemporary