Composer Hanns Eisler wrote the `Hollywood Songbook' while in enforced exile from Germany

Her new work, with musician Neil Martin, is designed as a conversation between music and dance and sees her going back to her roots

A leading light of the Irish avant-garde conjures up her father’s wartime experiences

Impressive singing from a versatile cast is supported by a recorded Roger Doyle score

The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Daniele Gatti delivered everything you could have asked for

Sorrow and loss continue to hold us in greater thrall than the idea of a new order in the offing

Yeats might well have appreciated the wordiness of William Brooks’s Everlasting Voices, which revisits the poet’s ideals of ‘chaunting’

Classical music round-up: The young ensemble played Messiaen’s dark music – which he composed as a POW – in near-darkness

Classical Music: The ensemble is to give a series of concerts in the dark; elsewhere, street opera proves a slippery business

Musical fusion of different stripes could be heard at the recent arts festival – with varying degrees of success

There is a time for artistic licence – and a time to focus on basics of performing: William Brooks on Yeats, and string quartet masterclasses at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival