Michael Mchale

Wild Atlantic airs in Westport: This week’s classical highlights

Westport Chamber Music Festival is back; plus Monteverdi’s ‘The Return of Ulysses’

Classical gig of the week: Westport Festival of Chamber Music

The historic setting of Westport House is the centerpiece of this fine boutique festival in Co Mayo featuring works by Grieg, Mozart, Bach, Shostakovich, Schumann and Fauré

Mayo ladies rocked by player walk-out over welfare issues

Cora Staunton, Sarah Tierney and Fiona McHale depart ahead of Cavan match

Mozart’s The Opera Director from Irish National Opera: the best classical music this week

The RTÉ Concert Orchestra’s current Essential Classics series ends with a popular selection of Schubert and Beethoven

Women composers find a voice: The week’s best classical music

Finding a Voice festival’s all-female finale; Vanbrugh & Michael McHale; Philippe Cassard

The best of the week’s classical music

The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/Kaspars Putninš, The Vanbrugh, RTÉ NSO/Harry Bicket

The best classical music and opera this week

City of London Sinfonia with pianist Michael McHale and conductor Michael Collins, Quatuor Voce’s nine-stop tour and NI Opera stage Così fan tutte

Going out or staying in? The best shows, exhibitions and TV to see this weekend

City of London Sinfonia at the NCH, ‘This Beach’ revived from Fringe, BBC’s ‘Howards End’

Fauré & Saint-Saëns - Works for Cello & Piano Brian O’Kane (cello), Michael McHale (piano) album review

Alex Petcu - In Time album review: strong debut from the Cork percussionist

Michael McHale, RTÉ NSO/Courtney Lewis - Irish Piano Concertos album review

Composing the Island: Starting with the best works is never wise

The celebration of 100 years of Irish composition hits mid-century, revealing a dark age for orchestral music

Celebration of Irish composers neglects women and living composers under 30

Composing the Island festival is huge, but it neglects women and living composers under 30

Rooms for a rent – An Irishman’s Diary on the restored venue of the 1921 Treaty debates

Centenary concerts neglect to take the revolutionary road

Michael Dervan: Two evenings of music and words as part of Ireland 2016 got me thinking about the links that were missed

The Kevin Barry room gets ready for some fresh experimentation

The NCH room - where the Treaty debates were held - has had a revamp. Will this fix the acoustic problems?