What’s new? Irish festivals reveal the state of contemporary music
Let’s see how new works and living, Irish and female composers fare in upcoming programmes
Roll Over Beethoven - and Hoffman: this week’s classical highlights
Jean-Christophe Spinosi conducts the ICO; Claudia Boyle in ‘The Tales of Hoffman’
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
Blurring the lines between speaking and singing
The spoken word overlaid with music – or should it be the other way around – actually has quite a long history
Estonian choir shows its choral pedigree at the National Concert Hall
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra makes important exploration of Mozart and Rameau
Treats for piano gourmands: this week’s classical highlights
Emmanuelle Haïm brings French baroque to Dublin, rising star Duncan Ward conducts the RTÉ NSO; and Dublin International Piano Competition winners perform in Galway
Why we need a new State-funded national orchestra
RTÉ’s role as ‘primary custodian’ of symphonic music must be challenged
Hungarian feel for New Ross Piano Festival
Culture Night concerts by Chamber Choir Ireland and Irish Chamber Orchestra offers 365 Variations on a Gesture
West Cork Chamber Music Festival gets the Hollywood treatment
Composer Hanns Eisler wrote the `Hollywood Songbook' while in enforced exile from Germany
The sound of sadness permeates musical commemorations of the Rising
Sorrow and loss continue to hold us in greater thrall than the idea of a new order in the offing
Mixed-and-matched Mozart in a blast from the concert past
Freiburger Barockorchester pay no heed to modern approaches to concert structures
Winners and losers in Arts Council’s absurd festival grants scheme
Two long-standing music series lose out as new events hit the jackpot, but the lack of continuity from year to year is mind-boggling
Diabelli’s Variations and the Hugh Lane’s mysterious moving piano
The original theme lacked grandeur, but such portmanteaus can be a source of creativity
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