Criticism
Live Reviews: Up North!: Festival Overview
There may have been periods when little or nothing seemed to be happening in the contemporary/classical world, but 2002 was not a year for morose contemplation of the difference between nothingness and near-nothingness. Instead, it seemed a year of achievement:...
Live Reviews: Up North! Cicada String Quartet Review
Cicada String Quartet, The Coach House, Dublin Castle, Friday 6 December 2002. Hallgrimsson – String Quartet No. 2 (1990); Ore – Cirrus (2002); Sørenson – The Lady of Shalott (1993); Volans – String Quartet No.7 Similarity No.1 (2002); Saariaho – Nymphea (1987)
Live Reviews: RTÉ Living Music Festival: Overview
The RTÉ Living Music FestivalFeaturing the music of Lucian Berio, October 25-27 @ The HelixDecision time. It’s after nine o’clock on a cold, bright, windy, leaf-strewn, post-gale Sunday morning and you have to decide whether to cross half...
Live Review: RTÉ Living Music Festival – Birtwistle, Berio, Canning, Kagel
The Living Music Festival, 26th October / Mahony Hall, The Helix
Live Reviews: RTÉ Living Music Festival: 26th October late concert
RTÉ Living Music Festival, 26th October The Theatre, The HelixCrash EnsembleCond. Fergus SheilBerio — Sequenza III (voice) (1966)Andriessen — Dubbelspoor (1994)Berio — Thema (Omaggio a Joyce) (1958)McKay — Ice Etchings (2002)Berio...
Live Reviews: RTÉ Living Music Festival: 27th October concert
RTÉ Living Music Festival, 27 October
Mahony Hall, The Helix
National Symphony Orchestra
Zsolt Nagy, conductor
Chritian Lindberg, trombone
Live Reviews: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Gerald Barry – The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant – Friday 27 September 2002, world premiere, RTÉ Music Commission / National Symphony Orchestra / Gerard Markson, conductor / Orla Boylan, soprano / Mary Plazas, soprano
Live Reviews: Ronan Guilfoyle's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Ronan Guilfoyle’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, with Conor Linehan (piano) and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra (Laurent Wagner, conductor) on 16 August 2002. On Friday 16th August, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra played the world premier of Ronan...