The NSO’s future is now secure, but why no outside expertise?
Will RTÉ, which has been killing off the orchestra, now be allowed to fill key positions?
Women composers find a voice: The week’s best classical music
Finding a Voice festival’s all-female finale; Vanbrugh & Michael McHale; Philippe Cassard
The best of the week’s classical music
The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Kaspars Putninš, The Vanbrugh, RTÉ NSO/Harry Bicket
Top three classical performances this week
Celebrating composer Brett Dean, Stravinsky’s Funeral Song resurfaces and composers on love
Chamber Music Gathering ignores female composers for second year
The NCH event has a thing or two to learn from West Cork Festival
The unpredictable magic of the new encounter
West Cork Chamber Music Festival director Francis Humphreys struck gold this year bringing together violinist Viviane Hagner, cellist Johannes Moser and pianist Barry Douglas
Is Dublin finally getting a Handel on the ‘Messiah’?
RTÉ Philharmonic Choir under Mark Hindley deliver a standout performance
`I’m the new boy. I’ve been 18 years here'
The Vanbrugh Quartet discuss the highs and lows and the state of classical music in Ireland after 30 years of music making
The New York Philharmonic introduce Dublin to the daughter of chaos
The orchestra’s appearance at the NCH kept things contemporary, unorthodox and sensual
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