Westport Festival expands from three to six concerts

The Festival of Great Music in Irish Houses plays fast and loose with its title but delivers music of calibre and quality

Three festivals showcased electronic works that deserve to be heard by a wider audience

NCH honours pianist by presenting him in solo recital as part of international series

Executive Director of RTÉ’s Orchestras, Quartet and Choirs moves to new role

The Russian, a giant among 20th century composers, deserved an NCH showcase of his distinctive style

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

NI Opera’s ‘Turandot’ is stunning, while Leif Ove Andsnes enjoys stint at the NCH

The new season is strong on singing and orchestral debuts, and composers from Sibelius to Mahler

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

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

Yeats might well have appreciated the wordiness of William Brooks’s Everlasting Voices, which revisits the poet’s ideals of ‘chaunting’

The orchestra’s appearance at the NCH kept things contemporary, unorthodox and sensual

The choir has to compete with the Fleischmann, but it’s living up to the vision behind its foundation

Richard Goode at the KBC Great Music in Irish Houses festival

Businessman Tony O’Reilly, pianist Hugh Tinney and minister Catríona Ruane all played in the ‘Junior Fitz’

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

St Flannan’s is a challenging acoustic for musicians; here their solution is an energetic approach

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

Programme notes – or the lack thereof – at recent concerts have me lamenting sins of omission