Cause for deep concern as symphony orchestra moves under NCH’s wing

Dearth of Irish and female composers in new season offerings at National Concert Hall

Classical concerts of the week: From Bach to Gluck

Paul Lewis plays the NCH, while opera Orfeo ed Euridice tours the country

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

Hungarian feel for New Ross Piano Festival

Culture Night concerts by Chamber Choir Ireland and Irish Chamber Orchestra offers 365 Variations on a Gesture

Early music – and earlier start times – for RTÉ NSO’s new season

Orchestra celebrates 70th anniversary with a wide-ranging concert programme

A vocal masterclass lifts West Cork Chamber Music Festival

Mark Padmore’s singing is riveting, with an exceptional sense of intimacy and adaptability

Stocktake: Fasten your seat belts for Brexit results

Whether the Leave or Remain sides win, it’s going to be a bumpy journey

A vision of home that has few ideas for classical music

Only one living Irish composer is part of the NCH’s seven-concert series for the 1916 centenary

Three global orchestras make Irish debuts in new concert season | Classical

The new season is strong on singing and orchestral debuts, and composers from Sibelius to Mahler

Classical: Four concerts show up the limits of formalism in music

Technical virtuosity was where it should be – a backdrop to effective communication with the audience

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Schumann: Fantasy in C Op 17 | Album Review

Irish banks fuelling European distressed property loan sales

Nearly two-thirds of sales in 2014 were in the UK and Ireland with US private equity groups the biggest buyers

Mull over Beethoven: the complete composer?

Musicians scheduled to perform his works here discuss what marks him out

Guantanamo detainees transferred to Saudi Arabia

Prison population stands at 160 following repatriation of two others to Algeria