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The Trials of Tenducci, A Castrato in Ireland – exploring musical connections
Tara Erraught, Peter Whelan and the Irish Baroque Orchestra evoke Dublin in the 1700s
The Trials of Tenducci: National Gallery concert celebrates 18th century castrato
Tenducci’s career and notoriety flourished in England and Ireland
What’s new? Irish festivals reveal the state of contemporary music
Let’s see how new works and living, Irish and female composers fare in upcoming programmes
‘Towards 2022’ programme symptomatic of orchestra’s lazy thinking
NSO sub-season duplicates previous efforts and focuses too much on British connections
Thomas Zehetmair and William Howard: the best classical music concerts this week
Italian pianist Alessandro Taverna performs as part of the latest programme in the NCH’s Towards 2022 mini-series
How one west Cork town is going it alone on rural broadband
Skibbereen benefits from first rural digital hub offering fastest broadband speeds in the country
A sequence of visions of Chopin
It’s always a pleasure to meet so accomplished, so resourceful and so thoughtful a virtuoso as Russian Daniil Trifonov
The best classical music this week: Daniil Trifonov makes NCH debut
RTÉ Contempo Quartet play Beethoven while Peter Whelan directs Irish Baroque Orchestra performance of Handel’s Messiah
Suspended UL employees raised concerns about expenses
Dáil committee questions senior University of Limerick personnel over accounts
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Imagining Ireland makes a stunning break for Europe
The NCH’s centenary celebrations continue with a night of high calibre one-off performances
A vision of home that has few ideas for classical music
Only one living Irish composer is part of the NCH’s seven-concert series for the 1916 centenary
Bars and restaurants on menu as Danu investors expand interests
Partnership that began with Setanta and Italia ’90 has a varied portfolio
Acoustic adventures at four Irish venues ranging from the muffled to the magical
At four recent performances given in spaces not designed for music, the contrasting fortunes were profound
Vanbrugh Quartet sound liberated in their post-RTÉ existence
ConTempo Quartet, on the other hand, were to take over as RTÉ’s string quartet in Cork in April, but things have been rather muted
Irish concert repertoire only scratches the surface of our musical heritage
Opportunities to experience the broad spectrum of this country’s rich musical history are limited
An A-Z of music in Ireland
In 2,000 or so entries by more than 200 contributors, a new encyclopedia sets out to chart Irish musical experience across recorded history. Here are 26 of them, from Air to Zozimus
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