Michael McHale, RTÉ NSO/Courtney Lewis - Irish Piano Concertos album review

Courtney Lewis serves up an energetic slice of Haydn

The conductor and the RTÉ NSO show Haydn a good time; and Ó Riada’s score for Mise Éire leaves me cold

Conductor Courtney Lewis: ‘I didn’t want the lonely existence of staring at a blank page’

The Belfast man studied at Cambridge with the goal of becoming a composer, but the lure of conducting led him to a rewarding career in the US

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

The Magic Flute in a circus makes for a frustrating experience in Lismore

The looseness of the ensemble and problems with co-ordination proved largely insurmountable