‘There’s no way of knowing what’s going to happen to musical life, or general life, in Ukraine’Ahead of the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra’s appearance in Dublin, pianist Anna Fedorova talks about what’s happening in her countryThu Jul 28 2022 - 05:00
Michelle O’Rourke and Ficino Ensemble: Folk Songs - Celebration of remarkable voiceEarnest-sounding engagements with folk songFri Jul 15 2022 - 06:00
HandelFest 2022: Bringing Messiah — and Dublin’s 18th-century music scene — back to life Peter Whelan is keen to celebrate Handel in the city where Messiah was premiered, but also to put him in a wider musical contextThu Jul 14 2022 - 06:00
Gary McCann: Visceral experience of opera about images and music burnt into the memory Designer from Portadown discusses his approach to Puccini’s Tosca in a co-production between Opera Wrocławska and Irish National OperaSat Jul 09 2022 - 06:00
The West Cork Chamber Music Festival’s Covid solutionReview: Bantry seems unlikely to run out of bright ideas while Francis Humphrys is running the showTue Jul 05 2022 - 15:03
‘Total freedom’: Kirkos get experimental in a former hair salon in DublinThe ensemble can take chances in their Prussia Street home, as well as helping others, such as by hosting the premiere of a David Bremner operaSat Jul 02 2022 - 05:00
The Hibernian Muse: Music for Ireland by Purcell and Cousser – Whelan and his team give it all its worth Album review: Irish Baroque Orchestra continues its exploration of Dublin’s musical history in the baroque eraFri Jul 01 2022 - 12:00
Nothing has changed. Everything has changed: New and old meet to create Louth Contemporary Music FestivalThe world of the arts is going through a time of sometimes cautious but genuinely joyous reunionMon Jun 20 2022 - 19:00
Julius Drake: ‘I do mind the word accompanist. I don’t think it’s fit for purpose’En route to west Cork, he talks about his ‘Damascene moment’ and how chamber music is an equaliserMon Jun 20 2022 - 06:00
Classical album review: César Franck complete orchestral works Four-disc, bicentenary collection showcases glittering piecesFri Jun 17 2022 - 06:00
Orfeo ed Euridice: Gluck under canvasThis year’s Blackwater Valley Opera Festival offering has plenty of energy but falls short on coherenceFri Jun 03 2022 - 14:32
LSO: Stravinsky Ballets - Pleasant rather than visceral listeningSensitive realisation under the guidance of Simon RattleMon May 30 2022 - 16:14
Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda: An opera with a troubled history returnsIrish National Opera’s production is first full staging with chorus, orchestra in IrelandMon May 30 2022 - 05:00
Countertenor Meili Li: ‘It’s not easy as a Chinese person to be accepted’Finding a footing in the world of opera takes grit but this is a singer who likes a challengeWed May 18 2022 - 05:00
Gerald Barry: ‘I’ve had an energy in me that has not had an outlet’The composer on sea bream, symbols, spies, Salome and his new Cello ConcertoTue May 10 2022 - 00:00
Nathan Sherman & Alex Petcu: Totemic – a well-executed debutThe viola and percussion duo mix three specially written works with one 1980s classicFri May 06 2022 - 05:00
Irish composers unite for long-delayed Beethoven celebrationAhead of an NCH concert series, artists reflect on how a musical giant shaped themMon May 02 2022 - 05:00
It’s oh so quiet: Exploring the role of silence in musicExperimental composer and guitarist Michael Pisaro-Liu’s 2013 work, asleep, wind, voice, poe gets its Irish premiere this monthSat Apr 30 2022 - 00:00
Ailís Ní Ríain: ‘Words and music are things we do against all better judgment’Composer on the challenges of her latest work and the transformative effect of ZoomWed Apr 27 2022 - 00:00
Rhona Clarke: Sempiternam choral music review – certain gestures a little clichedClarke is fond of graduated spills of soundFri Apr 01 2022 - 00:00
‘I always say the violin is Beyoncé and the viola is Adele’One is the pop singer, the other is the soul singer, says violist Jennifer StummWed Mar 23 2022 - 05:00
Joyce DiDonato: ‘What are you going to contribute to building the world?’Mezzo-soprano on Eden, destruction and balance – and moral duty outside concert hallSat Mar 19 2022 - 05:00
‘I certainly felt that the music and the man were one and the same thing’Choral director Paul Hillier on his concert tribute to late composer Steve MartlandTue Mar 08 2022 - 05:00
‘The challenge for women in music is the lack of institutional support’Participants in Finding a Voice, a festival of music by female composers, have their sayTue Mar 01 2022 - 05:00
Golda Schultz: ‘Back to that conversation between performer and artist’The South African soprano talks about the inspiration behind her upcoming NCH performanceThu Feb 03 2022 - 05:00
Raff: Complete Works for Cello & Piano – not quite a silk purseChristoph Croisé and Oxana Shevchenko show this limited composer in his best lightFri Jan 21 2022 - 05:00
Charles Villiers Stanford: More than a teacher of composersMusic programme to focus on Stanford’s composing rather than his catalogue of pupilsMon Jan 17 2022 - 05:00
Sam Perkin: Flow album review – Pass the jointTime is stilled on Perkin’s new releaseFri Jan 07 2022 - 05:00
JS Bach/Karlheinz Essl: Gold.Berg.Werk – Electronic meditations and variationsFri Dec 17 2021 - 05:00
The Ticket’s top roots, jazz, trad and classical albums of 2021Robert Plant and Alison Krauss; Matthew Halpin; John Francis Flynn; Haydn/BrahmsSat Dec 11 2021 - 05:00
Laoise O’Brien: Crusader on behalf of her instrument, the recorder‘What I loved about it, and no disrespect to my flute-playing colleagues, was the camaraderie’Wed Dec 08 2021 - 05:00
Modest Mussorgsky Unorthodox Music review – Treasure trove of vivid storytellingThe celebrated song-cycles are sliced through for samples rather than presented completelyFri Dec 03 2021 - 00:00
Malachy Robinson: The Irish Double Bass review – Strings core to this personal releaseAnother album from lockdown, Robinson is aided by pianist Gary BeecherFri Nov 19 2021 - 05:00
Elsewhere: Agitprop opera combines the serious and the comicMichael Gallen’s polyglot minimalist music captures energy of historic Monaghan strikeTue Nov 16 2021 - 14:24
Leader of the pack: The strange art of conductingElaine Kelly forged a dynamic path with Irish National Opera during lockdownMon Nov 15 2021 - 05:00
The Monaghan Soviet: How the people took over the asylumMichael Gallen on the event in his home county that inspired a new opera at the Abbey TheatreSun Nov 14 2021 - 05:00
My favourite Brandenburg: ‘A weird kaleidoscope of all that could possibly be’IBO musicians choose which of these celebrated Bach concertos they like the mostMon Nov 08 2021 - 05:00
Con Brio: Widmann, Strauss, Beethoven – A circumspect recordingWork commissioned as part of project by Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony OrchestraFri Nov 05 2021 - 05:00
Sinéad Campbell Wallace on returning to opera: ‘It’s in my bones’Going back to singing was a challenge – not least because her voice had changedWed Oct 27 2021 - 05:00
The 47th Saturday review: Nicely paced but vocal projection is overdoneWexford Festival Opera: Young cast cope well with demands of Andrew Synnott’s musicTue Oct 26 2021 - 15:00
Ein Wintermärchen review: Warmest emotional indulgence on offerWexford Festival Opera: The opera is more engaging in the moment than as a wholeTue Oct 26 2021 - 11:30
I Capuleti e i Montecchi: A different take on Romeo and JulietWexford Festival Opera: A young cast takes on Bellini’s challenging musicFri Oct 22 2021 - 13:19
Le Songe d’une Nuit d’Été: Comic opera’s limitations exposedWexford Festival Opera: Action is neatly handled, but the real flaw is the musicThu Oct 21 2021 - 18:22
Edmea: A psychological slant on a popular workWexford Festival Opera: Chorus and orchestra overcome Covid-restricted numbers with gustoWed Oct 20 2021 - 11:24
