The Irish Times

Sam Perkin: Flow album review – Pass the joint

Time is stilled on Perkin’s new release

Fri Jan 07 2022 - 05:00

Various Artists: Brian’s Imaginary Jukebox review – For the Eno obsessives

Fri Jun 22 2018 - 05:05

The risk and reward challenges facing Irish National Opera and Wexford

The new Irish National Opera is too risk-averse, while Wexford Festival's rare opera is not so rare anymore. And both need to engage with Ireland’s musical diaspora

Wed Apr 18 2018 - 05:15

Blurring the lines between speaking and singing

The spoken word overlaid with music – or should it be the other way around – actually has quite a long history

Wed Apr 11 2018 - 05:15

Can anything be salvaged from the New Music Dublin Festival?

There’s no way that the whole programme can be saved – it’s too big and too complicated for that

Wed Mar 07 2018 - 05:15

The Killing of a Sacred Deer review: unmissable, with a horror that’s unshakeable

Cannes 2017: Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan are exceptional in Yorgos Lanthimos latest

Mon May 22 2017 - 12:39

‘Composing the Island’ was a landmark and there is no going back

The event highlighting a neglected repertoire from Irish composers should happen every year

Wed Oct 05 2016 - 06:00

On Corporation Street review: Anu explores what it takes to rebuild shattered city

The theatre company’s latest show explores the legacy of the Manchester bombing

Mon Jun 20 2016 - 14:21

A bit of electrical hum is no skin off Alvin Lucier’s nose

At Dundalk Gaol, the experimental composer doesn’t flinch, allowing the problems to run their course

Wed Jun 25 2014 - 01:00

The shock of the New Music Dublin

A fascination with music of an experimental hue was evident in this programme

Wed Mar 12 2014 - 01:00

Raymond Deane’s new opera is based on an artist who had a life-like doll made of his former lover

When Alma Mahler, the widow of composer Gustav Mahler, broke up with the artist Oskar Kokoschka, he made an anatomically accurate doll of her, and that's inspired Raymond Deane's third opera

Mon Sept 16 2013 - 01:00

Keller Quartet – Ligeti: string quartets 1 & 2; Barber: Adagio

ECM New Series 481 0026

Fri Aug 30 2013 - 00:00

Out of the chamber and into the world

The reach and reputation of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival resonates beyond the Bantry venues

Fri Jun 28 2013 - 01:00

The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra is out of touch with the music of its own time

The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra is failing to engage with modern music, and this needs to change

Tue May 14 2013 - 02:00