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

American composers Cowell, Rzewski and Monk are the attractions here

A portrait of the artist as poet – An Irishman’s Diary on James Joyce

Biden saluted Joyce the poet

Four to the floor: This week’s best classical music gigs

A Culture Night programme at the National Concert Hall is among the highlights

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 round-up with Michael Dervan

A celebrated Swedish brass player, a master US percussionist and a Norwegian trumpeter

Tributes paid to conductor David Heusel

The American conductor died on Saturday, hours before he was due to conduct the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in Dublin

Vanessa review: Emotional turmoil paired with safe music

Samuel Barber’s opera was calculated not to offend a 1950s audience fearful of genuinely modern music

Eight car free Irish breaks

Eight weekend trips for motorists who’d prefer to explore Ireland by bus or train

Church of Ireland notes

The peculiar situation of a national opera house in Wexford

The renaming of Wexford Opera House is odd: what’s fine for a festival does not necessarily make sense for a national institution

American Piano Concertos