New Music Dublin manages to kick up a storm

Michael Dervan: Against the odds, Defrosted event offered memorable performances

Gender balance not being taken seriously by Irish music organisations

Female composers are grossly underrepresented, but fixing the issue may not be easy

Has RTÉ already cast the National Symphony Orchestra adrift?

The NSO needs Government action to preserve, protect and nurture it

The three best classical concerts in Ireland this week

Paul McNamara, Beckett Chamber Music Series and NCH Female Conductor Finale

Busy classical music promoters suggest lifting of recession

It helps, of course, that most of what was on offer was what you would call bankable fare

Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra at the NCH: the best classical music this week

Choirland, a collection of 15 pieces for unaccompanied choir, goes on tour

RTÉ’s cuts to National Symphony Orchestra are no accident

Dee Forbes wants to give the impression RTÉ is committed to maintaining two orchestras, but it has forced the NSO into a situation of atrophy

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Nathalie Stutzmann, Quentin Hindley: the best classical music this week

The Czech orchestra is playing three times at the NCH; Stutzmann’s RTÉ NSO concerts are not to be missed

Why we need a new State-funded national orchestra

RTÉ’s role as ‘primary custodian’ of symphonic music must be challenged

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

Classical music highlights of the week: JoAnn Falletta’s NCH debut

Crash Ensemble celebrate 20 years with special performance and Nathalie Stutzmann leads the RTÉ NSO in Strauss and Mozart

Denis Naughten should be alarmed by Ivan Yates’s RTÉ sources

Is the strange approach to filling key posts in RTÉ’s orchestras a ploy to tear them down?

Nathalie Stutzmann takes a bow with RTÉ NSO

Classical highlights: Veronika Eberle, Tallis Scholars and RTÉ Contempo Quartet

Stereo sound: the contralto who doubles as a conductor

Nathalie Stutzmann, the new guest conductor of the RTÉ NSO, has found two very different ways of producing sound

Early music – and earlier start times – for RTÉ NSO’s new season

Orchestra celebrates 70th anniversary with a wide-ranging concert programme

RTÉ NSO and Nathalie Stutzmann – love at second sight

The NSO’s new principal guest conductor hit it off again with orchestra and audience

Changing of the guard at RTÉ orchestras presents an opportunity

As the principal conductors of the NSO and the CO finish up, the question arises: how best to deal with their succession?

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