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

American composers Cowell, Rzewski and Monk are the attractions here

How are composers affected by lockdowns, wars and revolutions?

From Stravinsky to Schoenberg, composers differed in their treatment of global events in the 20th century

NCH’s chamber music series offers flexibility amid closure uncertainty

Collaboration part of long tradition of composers coming together with mixed results

Two classical music concerts to see in Dublin this week

Organ improvisation in Dún Laoghaire and Gavin Maloney conducts the RTÉ NSO

Two classical music concerts to see in Ireland this week

RTÉ NSO’s fanfares at lunchtime and Eugenio Fagiani improvises in Dún Laoghaire

James Taylor, Tom Ó Drisceoil, Elisabeth Leonskaja and Alina Pogostkina: the best classical music this week

Taylor and Ó Drisceoil play rare two-harpsichord works; Leonskaja plays with the ICO; Pogostkina plays with the RTÉ NCO

French conductor and composer Pierre Boulez dies aged 90

Leading figure in classical music had reputation as an uncompromising modernist

Diabelli’s Variations and the Hugh Lane’s mysterious moving piano

The original theme lacked grandeur, but such portmanteaus can be a source of creativity

American Piano Concertos

Premature concert clappers: let’s give them all a round of applause

There’s not much point in frowning on ‘ill-timed’ applause. What’s unusual today used to be the norm