Tricky handover as ConTempo Quartet take RTÉ Cork spot from VanbrughPerhaps it is time to revisit Music Network’s idea of a series of quartet residencies around the countryWed Dec 04 2013 - 01:00
How Elwes met Britten: ‘I was a bit of a thug, but I could sing’The tenor John Elwes met Benjamin Britten as a young chorister at Westminster Cathedral, the two sharing a penchant for schoolboy humourThu Nov 28 2013 - 01:00
Key players: a feast for piano fans in Lucerne and DublinIn a single week, it was possible to hear two Dublin International Piano Competition winners playing Chopin’s ‘Études’Wed Nov 27 2013 - 01:00
John Adams: Doctor Atomic Symphony; Short Ride in a Fast Machine; HarmonielehreFri Nov 22 2013 - 00:00
Bloch: Violin Sonata No 2; Janacek: Violin Sonata; Shostakovich: Violin SonataFri Nov 22 2013 - 00:00
Leif Ove Andsnes: ‘the greatest pianist in the world’ gets to know BeethovenThe great Norwegian pianist is focusing on Beethoven rather belatedly. ‘I haven’t been avoiding him,’ he saysThu Nov 21 2013 - 01:00
Fill the vacuum: concerts without context leave listeners none the wiserProgramme notes – or the lack thereof – at recent concerts have me lamenting sins of omissionWed Nov 20 2013 - 01:00
No excuses for Music Network grants debacleWhy has Music Network allowed applicants for grants it is overseeing to sit on its judging panel?Tue Nov 12 2013 - 18:48
Kaija Saariaho: the Finnish composer who lets others play with her workThe composer’s attitude to combining her ballet, which is coming to Dublin, with a video she hasn’t seen was ‘why not?’Fri Nov 08 2013 - 01:00
When composers talk about music, it’s well worth listeningPresentations by composers help to normalise what can often seem like the arcane world of new musicWed Nov 06 2013 - 01:00
Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D; Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2 Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), London Philharmonic Orchestra/Vladimir JurowskiFri Nov 01 2013 - 00:00
Prokofiev: Complete Works for Violin James Ehnes (violin), BBC Philharmonic Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda, Andrew Armstrong (piano)Fri Nov 01 2013 - 00:00
Mahler’s masterpiece finally gets the reception it deservesHis First Symphony felt alien to 19th-century listeners, but Saturday’s audience lapped it upWed Oct 30 2013 - 01:00
Thérèse/La NavarraiseWexford Festival Opera’s love affair with Massenet continuesFri Oct 25 2013 - 15:40
Il cappello di paglia di FirenzeThis new production of Nino Rota’s farce won’t sit still for a momentThu Oct 24 2013 - 15:30
Marin Alsop: a conductor with a beat that musicians want to play forAhead of her performance in Dublin on Saturday, the conductor tells how she was inspired by Leonard BernsteinThu Oct 24 2013 - 01:00
Premature concert clappers: let’s give them all a round of applauseThere’s not much point in frowning on ‘ill-timed’ applause. What’s unusual today used to be the normWed Oct 23 2013 - 01:00
The way to Wexford: a strange beauty behind the scenes at the operaAttending rehearsals of a Massenet double bill ahead of the Wexford Festival Opera was a deja vu experienceWed Oct 16 2013 - 01:00
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in D Minor; Concerto in D Minor for Violin and PianoFri Sept 20 2013 - 00:00
One small step for man, one giant leap of a musical kindHow to soundtrack Felix Baumgartner’s extraordinary near-space skydive? Ed Bennett has an explosive ideaWed Sept 18 2013 - 01:00
