The Irish Times

Raffaele La Ragione: Mandolin on Stage – Light and tangy concertoes

Fri May 20 2022 - 05:00

Nathan Sherman & Alex Petcu: Totemic – a well-executed debut

The viola and percussion duo mix three specially written works with one 1980s classic

Fri May 06 2022 - 05:00

Michael McHale: Moonlight – hampered by a kid-gloves approach

Fri Apr 15 2022 - 00:00

Rhona Clarke: Sempiternam choral music review – certain gestures a little cliched

Clarke is fond of graduated spills of sound

Fri Apr 01 2022 - 00:00

Peter Whelan – Mozart’s Bassoon: Engagingly enriched

Fri Mar 18 2022 - 05:00

Chiaroscuro Quartet: Beethoven String Quartets, Op. 18 Nos 4-6

Fri Mar 04 2022 - 05:00

‘The challenge for women in music is the lack of institutional support’

Participants in Finding a Voice, a festival of music by female composers, have their say

Tue Mar 01 2022 - 05:00

John Jenkins: Four-Part Consorts – Fantastical journeys

Fri Feb 18 2022 - 05:00

London Symphony Orchestra/Jaime Martín: Mozart Wind Concertos

Fri Feb 04 2022 - 05:00

Raff: Complete Works for Cello & Piano – not quite a silk purse

Christoph Croisé and Oxana Shevchenko show this limited composer in his best light

Fri Jan 21 2022 - 05:00

Sam Perkin: Flow album review – Pass the joint

Time is stilled on Perkin’s new release

Fri Jan 07 2022 - 05:00

JS Bach/Karlheinz Essl: Gold.Berg.Werk – Electronic meditations and variations

Fri Dec 17 2021 - 05:00

Modest Mussorgsky Unorthodox Music review – Treasure trove of vivid storytelling

The celebrated song-cycles are sliced through for samples rather than presented completely

Fri Dec 03 2021 - 00:00

Malachy Robinson: The Irish Double Bass review – Strings core to this personal release

Another album from lockdown, Robinson is aided by pianist Gary Beecher

Fri Nov 19 2021 - 05:00

Edmea: A psychological slant on a popular work

Wexford Festival Opera: Chorus and orchestra overcome Covid-restricted numbers with gusto

Wed Oct 20 2021 - 11:24

Dave Flynn: Irish Minimalism – A mixed engagement with the tradition

Flynn’s takes on the Irish tradition can come across as rather too emblematic

Fri Oct 15 2021 - 05:00

Christina Petrowska-Quilico: Retro Americana review – A dry piano record

American composers Cowell, Rzewski and Monk are the attractions here

Fri Oct 01 2021 - 05:00

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

Fri Sept 17 2021 - 05:00

Inbal Segev: 20 for 2020 (Volume 2) review – venturesome collection

Fri Sept 03 2021 - 05:00

Brahms: Symphony No 3, Serenade No 2 – Underpowered start to joyful finale

Fri Aug 20 2021 - 05:00

Mozart: Sonatas for piano four hands – up close and personal at the keyboard

Ferenc Rados and Kirill Gerstein achieve a rare intimacy on these duets for one piano

Fri Aug 06 2021 - 05:00

Sitkovetsky Trio: Ravel & Saint-Saens Piano Trios review – energetic rendering accentuates mystery

Trio finds the colours and ebb and flow to bring out the mystery in the Ravel

Fri Jul 16 2021 - 05:00

Ben Goldscheider: Legacy, A Tribute to Dennis Brain – Probing reminder of musician

Fri Jun 18 2021 - 05:00

Music Ireland and the Sixteenth Century: The Irish Consort – Enchanting harp

In sure hands, the nail-plucked, metal-strung Irish harp displays an ethereal magic

Fri Jun 04 2021 - 05:00

A French Connection: Chausson, Debussy, Franck – Alluring arrangements and sensual delivery

Violinist Daniel Rowland and pianist Natacha Kudritskaya helm this appealing collection

Fri May 21 2021 - 05:00

Mozart/Jones review: Fascinating take on late fragments

Sensitive performances with a focus on pieces for piano with violin

Fri May 07 2021 - 05:00

Francesca Dego: Il Cannone review – Refinement and control

Dego seems to have developed an immediate affinity for Paganini’s violin

Fri Apr 16 2021 - 05:00

Embers: Haunting, unsettling evocations of the past

Works by Irish composer Raymond Deane enclose a much longer piece by Ukrainian Valentin Silvestrov

Fri Apr 02 2021 - 05:00

The Trials of Tenducci, A Castrato in Ireland – exploring musical connections

Tara Erraught, Peter Whelan and the Irish Baroque Orchestra evoke Dublin in the 1700s

Fri Mar 19 2021 - 05:00

Brahms: Sonatas Op 120 review – A redefined approach to music

Antoine Tamestit and Cédric Tiberghien play with individuality and intimacy

Fri Mar 05 2021 - 05:00

Relive: Live orchestral works that capture a time and place

Pieces by Jane O’Leary, Peter Dickson Lopez and Corrina Bonshek still resonate

Fri Feb 19 2021 - 05:00

Chiaroscuro Quartet: Haydn String Quartets Op 76 – magicians at work

The quartet achieves a well-nigh perfect balancing of parts that seems impossible

Fri Feb 05 2021 - 05:00

Finghin Collins: ‘Ireland has done extremely well for the arts online’

The pianist on Music for Galway and working on his repertoire during lockdown

Mon Jan 18 2021 - 05:00

Swan Hennessy Selected Piano Works review – Mildly picturesque

The Irish-American composer wore a range of musical hats

Fri Jan 08 2021 - 05:00