Ticket sales at the 18th West Cork Chamber Music Festival were substantially up on previous years, with a record number of sell-out concerts and, for the first time, waiting lists.

Declan Townsend finds the programme for the West Cork Chamber Music Festival has him feeling like a child in a sweet shop, hoping he can sample everything

THIS was the question asked of Francis Humphrys, the artistic director of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival, by the French horn virtuoso, Herve Joulain.

Internationally renowned Romanian pianist Mihaela Ursuleasa has been found dead in her apartment in the Austrian capital. She was 33.

The West Cork Chamber Music Festival has a truly international appeal. Declan Townsend reports