Olwen Fouéré and the Breton connection: This time it’s personal

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

Heresy review: Giordano Bruno’s dramatic journey from monk to martyr

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

Dutch orchestra assumes three identities for the price of one

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

The sound of sadness permeates musical commemorations of the Rising

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

A Yeatsian balancing act between music and words

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

Kirkos invite their audience into the twilight zone

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

Kirkos Ensemble are drawn to the dark side

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

‘What isn’t music?’ Kilkenny ponders the big questions

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

Radical rule-breaking and back to basics

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

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