Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Christ Church Baroque/Mark DuleyMessiah - HandelWed Dec 8 1999 - 00:00
Raphael Oleg (violin), NSO/Proinnsias O DuinnRomeo and Juliet - Tchaikovsky ViolinMon Dec 6 1999 - 00:00
Cathedral date for Vanbrugh and VoglerArts Plan and innovative community projects or no, it seems that not everybody in Sligo appreciates the arts in the form of the…Sat Dec 4 1999 - 00:00
ClassicalThe Sligo Contemporary Music Festival continues today and tomorrow in the Blue Raincoat Theatre on Lower Quay StreetSat Nov 27 1999 - 00:00
ClassicalHugh Tinney rounds off his survey of the Beethoven piano concertos at the National Concert Hall on Tuesday with a performance…Sat Nov 13 1999 - 00:00
Welsh visitors brave opera impasseArts Council of Northern Ireland withdrew funding from Opera Northern Ireland, it promised not to shrink its opera budgetSat Nov 6 1999 - 00:00
Rolf Hind (piano), Jacques Tchamkerten (ondes Martenot), UlsterOrchestra/Thierry FischerTurangalila-symphonie - MessiaenMon Nov 1 1999 - 00:00
ClassicalTHE two forthcoming Irish programmes by Austrian baritone Wolfgang Holzmair (above) - in Dublin at IMMA on Wednesday, at the …Sat Oct 30 1999 - 01:00
Ronan O'Hara and RTECORonan O'Hora (piano), RTECO/Proinnsias O Duinn - National Concert HallMon Oct 25 1999 - 01:00
Letting voices sound in gloryPromoter Ellen Kent's regular presentations of opera productions from the backwaters of Eastern Europe are filling a clear niche…Thu Oct 21 1999 - 01:00
Spirited offering SiberiaUmberto Giordano is now best remembered for his Andrea Chenier of 1896Mon Oct 18 1999 - 01:00
Message is missingAs a Polish composer of the 19th century, Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872) has been completely overshadowed on the international…Mon Oct 18 1999 - 01:00
Vogler four bring the world to GalwayThe Vogler String Quartet from Berlin, recently installed as the new quartet-in- residence in Sligo, is much more than just an…Sat Oct 16 1999 - 01:00
Bad in partsThe posthumous fame of the Hungarian-born, Vienna-based composer Karl Goldmark (1830-1915) rests primarily on two works, his …Sat Oct 16 1999 - 01:00
Cloudy chillsRaymond Deane's new full-length chamber opera, The Wall of Cloud, opened at the Backstage Theatre in Longford on WednesdayFri Oct 15 1999 - 01:00
Pianist Schiff not at his bestFor his latest appearance in The Irish Times/NCH Celebrity Series at the NCH on Saturday, pianist Andras Schiff undertook a rather…Tue Oct 12 1999 - 01:00
Ludmilla Shilova (soprano)/Ensemble XXI Moscow/Lygia O'RiordanThe String Orchestra Ensemble XXI Moscow ended a new festival, Russian Music Days in Dublin, at the National Concert Hall last…Sat Oct 9 1999 - 01:00
Beethoven focus in NSO concert seriesRTE has announced details of the 1999/2000 series of subscription concerts by the National Symphony OrchestraThu Oct 7 1999 - 01:00
Michael Collins and guestsThe idea of a concert of chamber music among friends conjures up very special imagesFri Oct 1 1999 - 01:00
Slim musical pickings at a sell-out showThe Crash Ensemble has established something of a reputation not just for selling out their concerts, but for having to turn …Tue Sep 28 1999 - 01:00
ClassicalIt's a busy week. English clarinettist Michael Collins and friends are playing in Castlepollard, Waterford, Limerick and Dublin…Sat Sep 25 1999 - 01:00
Cora's festival dateThe astonishingly talented winner of the 1998 RTE Musician of the Future Competition, Cora Venus Lunny, has been as absent from…Sat Sep 18 1999 - 01:00
Contrasting masters of the nocturneIt's been a rather muted year of Chopin commemoration here in Ireland in the 150th anniversary of the composer's deathWed Sep 15 1999 - 01:00
William Dowdall (flute), Matthew Manning (oboe), NSO/Robert HoulihanSymphony No 36 (Linz) - MozartSat Sep 11 1999 - 01:00
ClassicalThe Irish Chamber Orchestra has been making a point of working with a wide range of string specialistsSat Sep 11 1999 - 01:00
ClassicalKerry-born Robert Houlihan (left), who has held conductorships of orchestras in Romania and Hungary, is one of the most consistently…Sat Sep 4 1999 - 01:00
Johannes Ebenbauer (organ)Johannes Ebenbauer, who gave the penultimate recital in this year's organ series at St Michael's, Dun Laoghaire, is Kapellmeister…Tue Aug 31 1999 - 01:00
BMW Song CircleHugo Wolf's Italienisches Liederbuch, written in two bursts in the 1890s, set a total of 46 poems by Paul Heyse, translations…Sat Aug 28 1999 - 01:00
ClassicalLots of the interesting rarities that make it onto disc nowdays are still largely excluded from the concert hallSat Aug 28 1999 - 01:00
Irish Youth Wind Ensemble/James Cavanagh, Timothy ReynishYiddish Dances - Adam GorbFri Aug 27 1999 - 01:00
Camerata KilkennyCamerata Kilkenny (or Kilkenny Camerata - Kilkenny Arts Festival's printed material offers both names) is an obvious outcome …Tue Aug 24 1999 - 01:00
ClassicalEvery August the BBC in Belfast runs a series of free invitation concerts with the Ulster Orchestra at the Ulster HallSat Aug 21 1999 - 01:00
Tasmin Little (violin) RTECO/Stephen BarlowTam O'Shanter Overture - Malcolm ArnoldMon Aug 16 1999 - 01:00
NCC/David BrophyThe last concert in the National Chamber Choir's Millennium Series at the National Gallery concentrated on "some of the less-…Sat Aug 14 1999 - 01:00