Finghin Collins: ‘Ireland has done extremely well for the arts online’

The pianist on Music for Galway and working on his repertoire during lockdown

The patriotic cellist who refused to play Rule, Britannia!

Maureen O’Carroll, daughter of 1916 Rising activists, went on to play with Frank Sinatra

Some nice little arrangements at Westport festival

Arranging big works for smaller ensembles has always helped make them more accessible

Switched-On Bach: How a transgender synth pioneer changed music

Wendy Carlos’s 1968 album of Bach music for Moog synthesiser brought electronic music into the mainstream and influenced artists from Giorgio Moroder to Daft Punk

Cannes 2018: walkouts galore at von Trier screening

Cannes diary: Spike Lee’s black Klan comedy, Wim Wenders’s Papal pic and Lars von Trier’s latest outrage

‘It's a romantic attempt to describe how we are as humans to an extra-terrestrial audience'

Emer Reynolds's new film ‘The Farthest’ looks at the extraordinary, humbling story the Voyager space project

Air’s Nicolas Godin on why his solo album is a bad idea

One of France’s great electronic innovators has ignored his own advice and made a solo record. ‘When you’re in band, there’s always a sense of frustration’

The art of writing about everything and nothing

Nicholson Baker’s 10th novel is mildly eccentric and at times self-indulgent, but it is also sharp, daring and honest

Hindemith: Piano Sonatas