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Alan Buribayev launches the NSO season with a free concert today. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra is out of touch with the music of its own time

Oftentimes the things that matter most are not the ones that are talked about the most. Think of practices in the medical profession that can c(...)

The union Verdi, representing 33,000 staff at Lufthansa, announced strike action today to put pressure on Lufthansa management to make a better pay offer. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters
Lufthansa cancels 1,700 flights due to strike set for Monday

Germany's largest airline Lufthansa said it was cancelling almost 1,700 flights on Monday, mostly on domestic and short-haul European routes, (...)

In the South: Brodsky String Quartet

The Brodsky Quartet’s southerly adventure ranges from Turina’s Spain and Verdi and Puccini’s Italy to Piazzolla’s Argentina, the (...)

The Europeans, no 16: Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Rossini was born in Pesaro, a pleasant, small town on Italy’s Adriatic coast, in 1792. His father was a horn player and his mother a (...)

Beware of operas bearing traditional gifts

It was Gustav Mahler who famously inveighed against tradition with the aphoristic put-down “ (...)

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