Criticism

CD Reviews: ConTempo Quartet, Máirtín O’Connor, Garry O’Briain, Cathal Hayden – Spiccato Junction Adrian Scahill Spiccato JunctionGalway Ensemble in Residence GER-CD-002Máirtín O’Connor and Cathal Hayden have been two of the most dynamic performers of Irish traditional music over the past few years, and on this sparkling CD they collaborate with the...
CD Reviews: Slide – Overneath CD Reviews: Slide – Overneath Niall Keegan Niall Keegan reviews Slide - Overneath.
CD Reviews: Eliot Grasso – Up Against the Flatirons Adrian Scahill Up Against the FlatironsNa Píobairí Uilleann NPUCD014It’s a measure of the strength and depth of Irish traditional music in America that the first in a new series of CDs issued by Na Píobairí Uilleann, entitled The Ace and...
CD Reviews: Catherine Leonard, Hugh Tinney CD Reviews: Catherine Leonard, Hugh Tinney Michael Quinn Beethoven Sonatas – ‘Spring’, Op 24; ‘Kreutzer’, Op 47. Rondo in G, WOO41. Kreisler, Rondino on a Theme of Beethoven RTÉ Lyric FM CD111
CD Reviews: Somadrone Paul Watts Of Pattern and PurposeTrust Me I’m a Thief Neil O’Connor has been very active in the Irish music scene over the last decade or so: he started in the 90s as a member of Loretta, then played with indie-popsters Palomine, but is probably best known...
CD Reviews: Nuala Kennedy CD Reviews: Nuala Kennedy Niall Keegan The New Shoes reviewed by Niall Keegan.
Live Reviews: The Dumbshow Kevin Stevens JJ Smyth’s, Dublin / 12 August 2007
Live Reviews: John Williams, Masahiro Nitta and Dean Magraw Adrian Scahill National Concert Hall, Dublin14 June 2007Billed as ‘Dynamic Japanese Tsugaru Shamisen Meets Ireland’, this intriguing concert was organised to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Ireland....

Pages