Paul Hillier
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Chamber Choir Ireland and Irish Chamber Orchestra: Letters review – Recording is extremely vivid
- Music
- December 4, 2020, 05:00
Don’t gloss over the detail of the pale text in the images reproduced on the front and back of Chamber Choir Ireland’s new CD. Tarik O’Regan’s palindr(...)

Don’t sing so close to me: Choirs in the Covid era
- Culture
- November 28, 2020, 05:00
Cast your mind back to the start of the year. The World Health Organisation declared Covid-19 a public health emergency of international concern in Ja(...)

The best classical music concerts happening this week
- Music
- January 18, 2020, 05:00
Thursday, 23rd Resound: NCH & Sounding the Feminists series National Concert Hall, Kevin Barry Recital Room, Dublin nch.ie The National Concert (...)

The best classical music events this week
- Music
- December 7, 2019, 05:00
Sunday 8 Elizabeth Hilliard, Lina Andonovska Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin The Hugh Lane Gallery’s free Sundays at Noon concert has a contemporary cast(...)

Great Music in Irish Houses brings the programme up to date
- Music
- June 19, 2019, 05:00
Normally, the bread-and-butter programming of Great Music in Irish Houses comes mostly from the core classical repertoire. Last week, the 49th ed(...)

Colin Currie: Navigating a tightrope of rhythm
- Music
- June 8, 2019, 05:00
“Depending on how you cut it,” Colin Currie says wittily, “percussion is one of the newest old instruments or the oldest new instrument in classical m(...)
Classical concerts of the week: From Bach to Gluck
- Music
- February 2, 2019, 05:00
SUNDAY 3 Before Bach & After III St Ann’s Church, Dawson Street 3.30pm €20/€15 chamberchoirireland.com Chamber Choir Ireland’s current concert se(...)

Musical ups and downs in a year of change and challenge
- Music
- December 5, 2018, 05:00
This year has been rich in turning points. There was the launch of Irish National Opera in January. March brought the news that David Agler, artistic (...)

Three classical music concerts to see this week
- Music
- November 10, 2018, 04:00
Saturday Nov 10 Yury Revich, Benedict Kloeckner Birr Theatre & Arts Centre 8pm €16/€14/€8 birrtheatre.com; also Sun, Sligo; Mon, Castlebar; music(...)

The highs and lows of Eugene Downes in Kilkenny
- Music
- August 22, 2018, 05:00
The curtain has fallen, and the Eugene Downes years at Kilkenny Arts Festival have come to an end. Musically, Downes left as he had started, with an e(...)