The best classical music to see this week

Tara Erraught leads master classes in song and opera, Sinead O’Kelly is at the National Concert Hall and Mihhail Gerts will conduct the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

Crowds expected to flock to Christmas Eve carol services

Get your seats early for Pro-Cathedral, but no room at the inn for St Patrick’s Cathedral

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

Bizjak Piano Duo: Martinu, Poulenc, Shostakovich, Stravinsky – Stuttgarter Philharmoniker Radoslaw Szulc | Album review

Westport’s awake to the sounds of chamber music

It’s easy to compare the approaches of different instrumentalists at Westport Festival of Chamber Music