The Norwegian violinist, who is giving a series of performances in Ireland, stands out in the classical world as a widely admired outsider
The celebrated French piano duo talk about the new scores for three Cocteau films they’ll be playing at the NCH
As he lends his glorious voice to a new spy thriller, the Rolling Stone relives his greatest roles
The musician and artist on CD-roms, cancel culture and her new show, The Art of Falling
Roddy Doyle, Sarah Crossan and Shane Hegarty on the role songs play in their craft
Soundtrack of My Life: The director on her lockdown listening, Francophilia, and Peppa Pig
Review: Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary depicts a world defined by fear and extremism
Soundtrack of My Life: Kate Bush, Philip Glass and more, from the director of Dublin film festival
Beethoven’s Fidelio and New Music Dublin both come to the National Concert Hall
The writer on creating a world for a new album by her husband’s band, Mount Alaska
The Beck of 1994’s Mellow Gold seems a million miles from the 49-year-old releasing Hyperspace
The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan in Wexford; American conductor JoAnn Falletta at NCH
The composer on febrile 1960s New York, working day jobs into his 40s and the term ‘minimalism’
Bangers and Crash Percussion Group starts tour, teenage wunderkind Daniel Lozakovich
Beacon of enlightened new music programming at NCH in fog of nostalgia culture
Joyce DiDonato, Damon Albarn, Philip Glass and Laurie Anderson in wide-ranging line-up
Dev Hynes returns with a little help from his famous friends on another strong outing
Louth Contemporary Music Society’s Book of Hours Festival was unfailingly adventurous
The scientist’s fame led to sitcom appearances, biopics, and music about him
Review: Duncan Jones’s latest film is a nod his late father, David Bowie, but it feels weirdly threadbare. It’s not disastrous – just senseless and lacking a plot
The Festival of Great Music in Irish Houses plays fast and loose with its title but delivers music of calibre and quality
Exhibition shuffles briskly and entertainingly through more than 100 years of spirituality in art
Last weekend’s New Music festival finally delivered on its celebratory promise
Some astounding new Bowie facts have come to light over the last year
Kingdom are living through the Dublin golden years as they’ve never had to before
Aaron Brookner’s film Uncle Howard is about his late film-maker uncle – but it is also about Aids, a disappeared New York and the dangerous Burroughs
Michael Dervan: Two evenings of music and words as part of Ireland 2016 got me thinking about the links that were missed
Ronan’s theatre debut is with Ciarán Hinds and Ben Whishaw in a formidable production directed by Ivo van Hove
For their collaboration commemorating the Rising at the NCH, Colm Tóibín and Donnacha Dennehy have focused on the uneasy time when Casement and Conrad shared quarters in the Belgian colony
The author has transported ‘Don Giovanni’ to Dublin for the Opera Theatre Company
Composer was ‘a gentleman to all who were fortunate enough to cross his path’
As Johnny Marr once said: ‘There are musicians who are influenced by him that don’t realise it’
Classical music: The problem with HJ Lim’s in-your-face style is that, when nothing is normal, you can get to the point where nothing is abnormal either
Happily, the composer has got over his anxieties, and his second collaboration with Enda Walsh, ‘The Last Hotel’, is shaping up to be a non-stop 80-minute roller coaster ride
New books by Steve Conway, on Radio Caroline, Stuart David, on Belle and Sebastian, Wyndham Wallace, on Lee Hazlewood, and Philip Glass, on his life in the musical avant-garde
Classical Music round-up: Recitals by John O’Conor, Marino Formenti and Philip Glass ranged from the masterful to the radical
Why this year’s festival turned to the US for a curator is hard to fathom
In curating the What? . . . Wow festival, Lang is examining the legacy of his neighbourhood, and the 1960s New York scene that gave the world minimalism
The German composer clung to the same style throughout his career – do any modern counterparts keep the faith?
After a decade, renowned producer, DJ and musician Theo Parrish has got the band back together – and what a band
St Flannan’s is a challenging acoustic for musicians; here their solution is an energetic approach
Opera repertoire has broadened since the French composer’s 1967 comments, and ‘The Invader’ continues a fine recent tradition of new opera in Ireland
John Adams’s first opera, which had its premiere in 1987 but has just landed in Dublin, is full of ideas
The Kronos Quartet, who are celebrating their 40th anniversary, play their only Irish date this year, in Cork’s Opera House
Even bats go wild for the quartet’s take on Philip Glass’s music
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
