Pianist Christian Blackshaw is set to play Galway: ‘Mozart got into my head’

The English performer will play a concert devoted to the Salzburg prodigy in October

Schubert dip and Caesar salad: Classical and opera treats this week

Schubert: Dreaming the Sublime, Giulio Cesare, and Rediscovering Irish State Musick

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

Fintan O’Toole’s cultural highlights: ‘A great year for the elderly’

Culture review 2016: Seanad National Museum land grab shows depths of philistinism in our political culture

Christian Blackshaw takes Mozart to places others cannot reach

Mozart is the focus of this year’s Kilkenny Arts Festival, and the English performer’s approach is unconventional

Christian Blackshaw: ‘Many performers make Mozart sound mechanical. He is absolutely not’

Blackshaw, one of the leading interpreters of Mozart, is spurred on by a determination to get to the heart of the composer’s true intentions

A strange forum for Irish composers whose noses are out of joint

Dave Flynn’s Burren venture is an alternative to the massive 1916 centenary survey – but the fine print is bewildering

Kilkenny Arts Festival announces its 2016 programme

Stephen Rea, Loudon Wainwright III and Christian Blackshaw are among the highlights

Christian Blackshaw: Mozart: Piano Sonatas Volume 3 | Album Review

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Mozart Piano Sonatas Vol 2