The quartet achieves a well-nigh perfect balancing of parts that seems impossible

Events from West Cork Chamber Music Festival to Friday Opera Sessions are migrating online

The performances came across with sophisticated poise

Violinist Alina Ibragimova and pianist Cédric Tiberghien on playing the Midwinter Festival

Building projects prove more time consuming than artistic changes as self-preservation prevails

Will RTÉ, which has been killing off the orchestra, now be allowed to fill key positions?

West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Sebastian Heindl and Anthony Weeden

Ted talk star Daria van den Bercken is in Galway and Russian violinist Alina Ibragimova plays an all-French programme in Drogheda

Dave Flynn’s Burren venture is an alternative to the massive 1916 centenary survey – but the fine print is bewildering

Mark Padmore’s singing is riveting, with an exceptional sense of intimacy and adaptability

Stephen Rea, Loudon Wainwright III and Christian Blackshaw are among the highlights

The Bergen Philharmonic, which is certainly one of the oldest, played with great character in its Irish debut

Andrew Litton, who is in Dublin for one of his final appearances as conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, explains the job he has obsessed about since the age of 10