The best classical music events this week
Christmas concerts in various venues and the Ficino Quartet at the National Concert Hall
Zee Zee tops the bill at the NCH: this week’s classical highlights
The Chinese pianist makes her Irish debut with the RTÉCO under Jonathan Bloxham
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From Mozart to Britten, the requiem will live forever
Composers have always been drawn to honour the dead with powerful, passionate music
A muscular, finely tuned engine at Westport Chamber Music Festival
The muscle cars of Cannonball Ireland were no match for the velvet sounds of Westport
Wild Atlantic airs in Westport: This week’s classical highlights
Westport Chamber Music Festival is back; plus Monteverdi’s ‘The Return of Ulysses’
Classical gig of the week: Westport Festival of Chamber Music
The historic setting of Westport House is the centerpiece of this fine boutique festival in Co Mayo featuring works by Grieg, Mozart, Bach, Shostakovich, Schumann and Fauré
Great Music in Irish Houses: this week’s classical highlights
Also: Billionaire orchestra Würth Philharmoniker, and Pipeworks at Christ Church
A sequence of visions of Chopin
It’s always a pleasure to meet so accomplished, so resourceful and so thoughtful a virtuoso as Russian Daniil Trifonov
Classical music highlights of the week: JoAnn Falletta’s NCH debut
Crash Ensemble celebrate 20 years with special performance and Nathalie Stutzmann leads the RTÉ NSO in Strauss and Mozart
Unfamiliar with Irish-language opera ‘Eithne’? You are not alone
This ‘unknown part of our cultural landscape’ written in 1909 warrants a full staging
Classical and opera highlights this week
Wexford Festival Opera begins while ‘Eithne’ is presented in a concert performance
Kilkenny Arts Festival announces programme for 2017
A focus on Schubert and Stephen Rea performing the work of Oscar Wilde are the main highlights, though the festival features few women in main performing roles
In praise of Composing the Island - lost Irish treasures unearthed
The festival unearthed fine compositions that were sadly neglected in the past 100 years
How Stravinsky put the world to rites
The Russian, a giant among 20th century composers, deserved an NCH showcase of his distinctive style
A Yeatsian balancing act between music and words
Yeats might well have appreciated the wordiness of William Brooks’s Everlasting Voices, which revisits the poet’s ideals of ‘chaunting’
The New York Philharmonic introduce Dublin to the daughter of chaos
The orchestra’s appearance at the NCH kept things contemporary, unorthodox and sensual
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