Chris Merrick Hughes: Eirenic Life, Helium, 4 stars

Composer Hanns Eisler wrote the `Hollywood Songbook' while in enforced exile from Germany

Three festivals showcased electronic works that deserve to be heard by a wider audience

Last weekend’s New Music festival finally delivered on its celebratory promise

Laura Jurd is one of jazz's fastest rising stars but her band Dinosaur has a sound that's pure early 1970s electric funk

Ten years after I first heard of Wandelweiser, Louth Contemporary Music Society has brought it to Ireland

New Music Dublin has suffered numerous abuses in its short life and has been postponed for 2016. Can it be fixed?

Since 1969 Manfred Eicher has had a singular influence on jazz through his ECM label. So what happens in a recording session with the enigmatic producer?

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

The National guitarist is excited about curating the first Sounds from a Safe Harbour festival, which will be ‘like throwing a party for your friends’

The orchestra’s appearance at the NCH kept things contemporary, unorthodox and sensual

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

Why this year’s festival turned to the US for a curator is hard to fathom

In curating the What? . . . Wow festival, Lang is examining the legacy of his neighbourhood, and the 1960s New York scene that gave the world minimalism

From the genius of Máirtín O’Connor and the huge contribution of the Irish Traditional Music Archive to the magpie stylings of Ensemble Ériú, the list of recipients of the annual TG4 awards is impressively diverse

The German composer clung to the same style throughout his career – do any modern counterparts keep the faith?

‘Reign’ oozes anachronisms; you’ll find a more authentic torture and dark intrigue on ‘Shakedown the Town’

John Adams’s first opera, which had its premiere in 1987 but has just landed in Dublin, is full of ideas

Electronica royalty joins up with bell ringers – and somehow it works

The ‘AntiMidas’ cast of four double as a Greek chorus and the media, presented as a wild line-up of TV pundits