Music Matters

Tom Service travels to Ireland to explore the part classical music has to play in Irish culture today. In the last decade, the country has experienced a revolution in music-making. Tom visits Ireland's first purpose-built opera house, which is about to open its doors to the Wexford Opera Festival. Plus a look at contemporary classical composition in Dublin and traditional music and dance at the world-renowned Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in Limerick. And Irish composer Gerald Barry explains how the solitude of County Clare is essential to his uncompromising music.