Criticism
Live Reviews: Tomasz Stanko Quartet
Tomasz Stanko (trumpet), Marcin Wasilewski (piano), Slawomir Kurkiewicz (bass) & Michal Miskiewicz (drums)
Vicar Street, Dublin
18 September 2007
Live Reviews: Masters of Tradition
John Flanagan, Kevin Crawford, Steve Cooney, Martin Hayes, Brian McNamara, Seán Smyth, Oisín MacDiarmada, Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Dennis Cahill Bantry House, Bantry, Co Cork15-19 August 2007Now in its fifth year, the Masters...
Live Reviews: Music 21: Hugh Tinney / The Thing
NCH, Dublin/4 Dame Lane, Dublin / 28 September 2007
Live Reviews: The Dumbshow
JJ Smyth’s, Dublin / 12 August 2007
Live Reviews: John Williams, Masahiro Nitta and Dean Magraw
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....
Live Reviews: Young Composers' Collective
New Theatre, Temple Bar, Dublin / 29 July 2007
Live Reviews: Jennifer Walshe's Grove of Drift
Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin11-14 July 2007On arrival the visitor is asked to take a torch from the table beside the entrance to the installation. As the door shuts behind you, the light you carry leads you down a pitch black corridor to composer...
CD Reviews: Catherine Leonard, Hugh Tinney
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
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...