Ina Boyle: Songs – Singers and pianist do pared-back songs proud

NCH’s chamber music series offers flexibility amid closure uncertainty

Collaboration part of long tradition of composers coming together with mixed results

Two classical music concerts to see in Dublin this week

Organ improvisation in Dún Laoghaire and Gavin Maloney conducts the RTÉ NSO

Two classical music concerts to see in Ireland this week

RTÉ NSO’s fanfares at lunchtime and Eugenio Fagiani improvises in Dún Laoghaire

Classical highlights in November

At last, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra is presenting ‘A celebration of contemporary Irish female composers’ at the NCH

Classical music: Playing outside the pit can broaden your horizons

Orchestra members fulfil vital extracurricular functions such as providing music education and road-testing new music

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

The devil in the detail of RTÉ’s orchestral cutbacks

A heavily redacted report on RTÉ’s orchestras gives the lie to the Government’s claims about transparency

Courtney Lewis’s code of conduct for the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

Getting the best out of an orchestra is a challenge, but the young Belfast conductor proves he can handle it with performances of Prokofiev, Borodin and Shostakovich