Building an audience for contemporary classical music

Recitals, workshops and the determinedly avant garde feature in Music Current festival

Sam Perkin: Flow album review – Pass the joint

Time is stilled on Perkin’s new release

How are composers affected by lockdowns, wars and revolutions?

From Stravinsky to Schoenberg, composers differed in their treatment of global events in the 20th century

Virtual viewing: A guide to visiting museums online in the age of Covid-19

Many of the world’s great museums are now available on screen, but what exactly do you get for your click?

NSO chief conductor holds audience in the palm of his hand

Jaime Martín brings artistic passion and educational spirit to his new role

Louth and clear: a maverick’s musical adventures in Dundalk

Louth Contemporary Music Society’s Book of Hours Festival was unfailingly adventurous

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

Classical and opera highlights this week

Wexford Festival Opera begins while ‘Eithne’ is presented in a concert performance

‘How can we make opera relevant to our times, make it more than pure entertainment?’

Stéphane Lissner, the director of the French national opera, is going all out to recruit new opera-lovers

Westport’s awake to the sounds of chamber music

It’s easy to compare the approaches of different instrumentalists at Westport Festival of Chamber Music

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The fireworks and the finer points of ‘Nixon in China’

John Adams’s first opera, which had its premiere in 1987 but has just landed in Dublin, is full of ideas

Mahler/Stein: Symphony No 4