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The programme, devised by the choir’s chief conductor Justin Doyle, weaves arrangements by Reger, Holst, Vaughan Williams, Quilter and Doyle himself through the evening as well.

The best classical music concerts the week has to offer

Justin Doyle brings Brahm to the NCH and Ulster Hall hosts Tito Muñoz

Goderdzi Janelidze as Don Quichotte and Olafur Sigurdarson as Sancho in Don Quichotte by Massenet. Photograph: Clive Barda

What is it that opera traditionalists want exactly?

It has become clear over the years that whatever it is they like, they call it traditional

Sean Shibe and Ben Johnson

The best classical concerts and opera of the week

Camerata Ireland, Ben Johnson and Sean Shibe, and Anja Bihlmaier and the RTÉ NSO

Christian Tetzlaff

Silence is golden: Softly-softly approach to music gets your attention

Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt used surprise softness to great effect at the NCH

PR shot of Tara Erraught (Cinderella) and Andrew Owens (Ramiro) in Irish National Opera's Cinderella/La Cenerentola in Bord Gais Energy Theatre 10 - 16 Nov 2019

Cinderella/La Cenerentola review: Well deserving of its standing ovation

Irish National Opera’s production, featuring Tara Erraught, brings together Rossini’s mix of comedy and tragedy with a light touch

Tara Erraught

The best classical and opera concerts to see this week

Irish mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught appears in La Cenerentola as Angelina

Members of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra. Photograph: Mark Stedman

Din emanating from RTÉ over orchestra cuts is hard to listen to

Continuity is important in orchestras, and RTÉ’s plans will have a dire effect

Sheldon Baxter, Manuel Amati, Máire Flavin and Emmanuel Franco in Rosetta Cucchi’s 2019 world premiere production of ‘La cucina’ by Andrew Synnott, at Wexford Opera Festival. Photograph: Clive Barda

Artistic director plans new theme for every Wexford Festival Opera

Rosetta Cucchi, who brings an open-hearted warmth to her task, has chosen ‘Shakespeare’ for 2020

Kenneth Montgomery, the doyen of Irish conductors

The best classical music to see this week

Listen to The Seven Ages of Man by Paul Hilliard or Andrew Zolinsky’s Resound Series

JoAnn Falletta conducts the RTÉ NSO in a programme of Strauss and Respighi at the NCH on Friday November 1st

Bring sandwiches for a five-hour Philip Glass marathon – this week’s classical highlights

The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan in Wexford; American conductor JoAnn Falletta at NCH

Wexford Festival Opera: Rachel Kelly and her fellow cast in La cucina/Adina. Photograph: Cliva Barda/ArenaPal

La cucina/Adina review: A production so busy it ties itself in knots

Wexford Festival Opera: Andrew Synnott’s skilful music faces a riot of onstage activity

Wexford Festival Opera: Dorilla in Tempe. Photograph: Clive Barda/ArenaPal

Dorilla in Tempe review: A good-looking but unbalanced production

Wexford Festival Opera: An oversized orchestra too often compromises solo voices

American literary critic Harold Bloom: those who promote broadening the canon to include more women or post-colonial or LGBT or non-English or non-white writers belong to what he calls a “school of resentment”. Photograph: Jim Wilson/The New York Times

Tiptoeing into the minefield of so-called classical canon

A recital by the ConTempo Quartet and Fiachra Garvey was the first of six Sounding the Feminists concerts this season

Wexford Festival Opera: Aigul Akhmetshina and Goderdzi Janelidze in Don Quichotte. Photograph: Clive Barda/ArenaPal

Don Quichotte review: Massenet updated, but in no way diminished

Wexford Festival Opera: Aigul Akhmetshinato is a sultry Dulcinée in Rodula Gaitanou’s new production

Austrian composer Gustav Mahler circa 1907. Photograph: Moriz Nähr/Imagno/Getty Images

Reviewing Mahler’s Symphony No 3: ‘I never want it to end’

Diary: For a lifelong Mahler fan, covering this NCH concert is a dream assignment

Griselda: Russell Harcourt as Roberto and Emma Morwood as Costanza in Irish National Opera’s production

Griselda review: Pantomime vibe intrudes on some triumphant moments

Irish National Opera’s production features superb singing, but a brave effort to modernise the story isn’t a total success

English mezzo-soprano Katie Bray plays the title role in Griselda

The week’s best classical and opera: Griselda to ConTempo Quartet

London Mozart Players concert mixes works from the 18th and early 20th centuries

Synnott’s elevation to the main stage at Wexford is only the latest in a long line of operatic successes from Irish composers.

Andrew Synnott: A musician who needs to express himself in all kinds of different ways

Synnot will be first living Irish composer to have work featured on main stage of Wexford Festival Opera

Hector Berlioz in 1856. Our Lady’s Choral Society at the NCH with conductor Proinnsías Ó Duinn and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, was careful to include an extract from his best-known work, the Symphonie fantastique, inspired by his passion for the Irish actress Harriet Smithson. Photograph: Nadar

What would Berlioz have made of Disney’s Frozen? Fantastique, probably

After his death, the fanciful French composer, was left out in the cold, but two Dublin concerts celebrating his 150th anniversary shows romanticism is not dead

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