Cathedral date for Vanbrugh and VoglerArts Plan and innovative community projects or no, it seems that not everybody in Sligo appreciates the arts in the form of the…Sat Dec 04 1999 - 00:00
ClassicalThe Sligo Contemporary Music Festival continues today and tomorrow in the Blue Raincoat Theatre on Lower Quay StreetSat Nov 27 1999 - 00:00
ClassicalHugh Tinney rounds off his survey of the Beethoven piano concertos at the National Concert Hall on Tuesday with a performance…Sat Nov 13 1999 - 00:00
Welsh visitors brave opera impasseArts Council of Northern Ireland withdrew funding from Opera Northern Ireland, it promised not to shrink its opera budgetSat Nov 06 1999 - 00:00
Rolf Hind (piano), Jacques Tchamkerten (ondes Martenot), UlsterOrchestra/Thierry FischerTurangalila-symphonie - MessiaenMon Nov 01 1999 - 00:00
ClassicalTHE two forthcoming Irish programmes by Austrian baritone Wolfgang Holzmair (above) - in Dublin at IMMA on Wednesday, at the …Sat Oct 30 1999 - 01:00
Ronan O'Hara and RTECORonan O'Hora (piano), RTECO/Proinnsias O Duinn - National Concert HallMon Oct 25 1999 - 01:00
Letting voices sound in gloryPromoter Ellen Kent's regular presentations of opera productions from the backwaters of Eastern Europe are filling a clear niche…Thu Oct 21 1999 - 01:00
Spirited offering SiberiaUmberto Giordano is now best remembered for his Andrea Chenier of 1896Mon Oct 18 1999 - 01:00
Message is missingAs a Polish composer of the 19th century, Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872) has been completely overshadowed on the international…Mon Oct 18 1999 - 01:00
Vogler four bring the world to GalwayThe Vogler String Quartet from Berlin, recently installed as the new quartet-in- residence in Sligo, is much more than just an…Sat Oct 16 1999 - 01:00
Bad in partsThe posthumous fame of the Hungarian-born, Vienna-based composer Karl Goldmark (1830-1915) rests primarily on two works, his …Sat Oct 16 1999 - 01:00
Cloudy chillsRaymond Deane's new full-length chamber opera, The Wall of Cloud, opened at the Backstage Theatre in Longford on WednesdayFri Oct 15 1999 - 01:00
Pianist Schiff not at his bestFor his latest appearance in The Irish Times/NCH Celebrity Series at the NCH on Saturday, pianist Andras Schiff undertook a rather…Tue Oct 12 1999 - 01:00
Ludmilla Shilova (soprano)/Ensemble XXI Moscow/Lygia O'RiordanThe String Orchestra Ensemble XXI Moscow ended a new festival, Russian Music Days in Dublin, at the National Concert Hall last…Sat Oct 09 1999 - 01:00
Beethoven focus in NSO concert seriesRTE has announced details of the 1999/2000 series of subscription concerts by the National Symphony OrchestraThu Oct 07 1999 - 01:00
Michael Collins and guestsThe idea of a concert of chamber music among friends conjures up very special imagesFri Oct 01 1999 - 01:00
Slim musical pickings at a sell-out showThe Crash Ensemble has established something of a reputation not just for selling out their concerts, but for having to turn …Tue Sept 28 1999 - 01:00
ClassicalIt's a busy week. English clarinettist Michael Collins and friends are playing in Castlepollard, Waterford, Limerick and Dublin…Sat Sept 25 1999 - 01:00
Cora's festival dateThe astonishingly talented winner of the 1998 RTE Musician of the Future Competition, Cora Venus Lunny, has been as absent from…Sat Sept 18 1999 - 01:00
Contrasting masters of the nocturneIt's been a rather muted year of Chopin commemoration here in Ireland in the 150th anniversary of the composer's deathWed Sept 15 1999 - 01:00
William Dowdall (flute), Matthew Manning (oboe), NSO/Robert HoulihanSymphony No 36 (Linz) - MozartSat Sept 11 1999 - 01:00
ClassicalThe Irish Chamber Orchestra has been making a point of working with a wide range of string specialistsSat Sept 11 1999 - 01:00
ClassicalKerry-born Robert Houlihan (left), who has held conductorships of orchestras in Romania and Hungary, is one of the most consistently…Sat Sept 04 1999 - 01:00
Johannes Ebenbauer (organ)Johannes Ebenbauer, who gave the penultimate recital in this year's organ series at St Michael's, Dun Laoghaire, is Kapellmeister…Tue Aug 31 1999 - 01:00
BMW Song CircleHugo Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch, written in two bursts in the 1890s, set a total of 46 poems by Paul Heyse, translations…Sat Aug 28 1999 - 01:00
ClassicalLots of the interesting rarities that make it onto disc nowdays are still largely excluded from the concert hallSat Aug 28 1999 - 01:00
Irish Youth Wind Ensemble/James Cavanagh, Timothy ReynishYiddish Dances - Adam GorbFri Aug 27 1999 - 01:00
Camerata KilkennyCamerata Kilkenny (or Kilkenny Camerata - Kilkenny Arts Festival's printed material offers both names) is an obvious outcome …Tue Aug 24 1999 - 01:00
ClassicalEvery August the BBC in Belfast runs a series of free invitation concerts with the Ulster Orchestra at the Ulster HallSat Aug 21 1999 - 01:00
Tasmin Little (violin) RTECO/Stephen BarlowTam O'Shanter Overture - Malcolm ArnoldMon Aug 16 1999 - 01:00
NCC/David BrophyThe last concert in the National Chamber Choir's Millennium Series at the National Gallery concentrated on "some of the less-…Sat Aug 14 1999 - 01:00
ClassicalIt's the 150th anniversary of the death of Chopin this year, and the best commemoration to date has surfaced in Bantry, home …Sat Aug 07 1999 - 01:00
