Brett Dean’s ICO debut: This week’s classical highlights

Fiachra Garvey with the RTÉ NSO, plus the Westport Chamber Music Festival

The three best classical concerts in Ireland this week

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

Electronic music is everywhere, except the classical mainstream. This should change

Three festivals showcased electronic works that deserve to be heard by a wider audience

French conductor and composer Pierre Boulez dies aged 90

Leading figure in classical music had reputation as an uncompromising modernist

Romance Oubliée: Tabea Zimmermann

Premature concert clappers: let’s give them all a round of applause

There’s not much point in frowning on ‘ill-timed’ applause. What’s unusual today used to be the norm

One small step for man, one giant leap of a musical kind

How to soundtrack Felix Baumgartner’s extraordinary near-space skydive? Ed Bennett has an explosive idea

British Clarinet Sonatas Vol 2