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RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra announce online concert series

The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra will return to live performance on Friday 11 September with RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra LIVE, a new series of 12 concerts live-streamed worldwide in HD here on RTÉ Culture, and broadcast live on RTÉ lyric fm...

Music • 08 Sep 20

Composer George Fenton talks Attenborough, Loach and Ephron

George Fenton has written the music for over one hundred feature films and has collaborated with some of the most influential film makers of the late 20th century - he talks to Movies & Musicals on RTÉ lyric fm.

George Fenton • 14 Aug 20

Cristín Leach with Rita Duffy's 1989 painting Segregation

Crawford Gallery presents lyric fm's Ireland Portrayed

Cork's Crawford Gallery are presenting RTÉ lyric fm's recent Ireland Portrayed series on a dedicated learn and explore section on their website.

Ireland Portrayed • 20 Jul 20

How to listen to classical music - a beginner's guide

Classical music has a bad reputation for being intimidating and difficult to develop an interest in, but it really doesn't have to be that way...

Music • 14 Jul 20

Listen: Marty Whelan's last interview with Ennio Morricone

Listen to Marty Whelan's last interview with the late Maestro Ennio Morricone, who has died aged 91, recorded in December 2018 just before his final concert in Ireland in 2019...

Film • 06 Jul 20

RTÉ lyric fm head Aodán Ó Dubhghaill bids farewell

As Aodán Ó Dubhghaill, Executive Director of RTÉ Lyric fm, Orchestras and Choirs, retires from RTÉ, he writes for Culture about a glittering career in broadcasting, begun over a half-century ago...

Rté Lyric Fm • 25 Jun 20

Listen: City of Words - a musical journey through Ulysses

In City Of Words, Bernard Clarke chronicles the composition of Ulysses in the various cities that James Joyce resided in from 1908 to 1922, with a particular emphasis on the place of popular song in the work...

Ulysses • 11 Jun 20

The Purple Vespertine on the magic of Gabriela Montero

Gabriela Montero has come a long way since her parents placed a toy piano in her playpen when she was seven months old.

Rté Lyric Fm • 28 May 20

Portrait of author Maria Edgeworth by Adam Buck, circa 1790

Maria Edgeworth, the Irish Jane Austen - The Lyric Feature

Susan Manly has often wondered why Maria Edgeworth is not as well known as Jane Austen. She explores the life and works of this underappreciated writer, and puts her case that she ought to be as celebrated as Austen in A Radical Life on RTÉ lyric fm...

The Lyric Feature • 25 May 20

The Documentary On One team won Gold for their documentary on former Garda Majella Moynihan

Golden night for RTÉ at New York Festivals Awards

RTÉ programmes won 30 prestigious awards at the 2020 New York Festivals International TV & Film and Radio Awards.

RTÉ • 23 Apr 20

Wexford Opera and Una Hunt bring a lost classic to RTÉ Player

More than 125 years since its last complete presentation, The Veiled Prophet by Dublin-born composer Charles Villiers Stanford was performed at Wexford Festival Opera and is now available to view on RTÉ Player.

RTÉ Player • 28 Apr 20

Listen: Great Moments in Classical Music with RTÉ lyric fm

Via RTÉ lyric fm, discover interesting moments and stories behind some of the most famous classical music ever written...

Culture • 20 Apr 20

The Culture File Debate - host Luke Clancy

Everyone's A Critic - introducing The Culture File Debate

Join Luke Clancy for a compilation of highlights and extras from his weekday reports on Lorcan Murray's Classic Drive

Rté Lyric Fm • 22 Apr 20

Listen: Jennifer Walshe's London Lockdown Diary

Via Culture File on RTÉ lyric fm: London-based Irish composer, Jennifer Walshe contemplates the language we use to describe our current crisis...

Culture File • 15 Apr 20

Music for insomniacs: Max Richter's Sleep coming to RTÉ lyric fm

RTÉ lyric fm invites listeners to tune in on Easter Monday for the broadcast of Max Richter's world record-breaking Sleep, a work composed in consultation with renowned American neuroscientist David Eagleman.

Rté Lyric Fm • 08 Apr 20

Listen: Composer William Brittelle boards the Mystery Train

In advance of his performance at this year's Sounds From a Safe Harbour festival, composer William Brittelle joins John for a Mystery Train Sunday Service to talk about his music and musical influences...

Mystery Train • 30 Mar 20

Composer Jennifer Walshe features in The Lyric Feature: Stranger Than We Thought

Ireland's avant garde artists uncovered: The Lyric Feature

Tom Roseingrave writes about the making of his new Lyric Feature documentary Stranger Than We Thought, which interrogates the Aisteach archive of Ireland's avant-garde artists, to be broadcast on RTÉ Lyric fm on Sunday, 29th of March at 6pm.

The Lyric Feature • 30 Mar 20

Lyric Concert Gold: RTÉ NSO play Bartók, Rachmaninov & Stravinsky

Paul Herriott presents The Lyric Concert live from the National Concert Hall, Dublin as pianist Fiachra Garvey joins the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra to perform Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini under conductor Mihhail Gerts.

Music • 25 Mar 20

Listen: Author Sara Baume boards the Mystery Train

Novelist Sara Baume climbs aboard the Mystery Train on RTÉ lyric fm for a Sunday Service special, to play a few tunes and talk about her new novel Handiwork.

Rté Lyric Fm • 26 Mar 20

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra cello section leader Martin Johnson (Pic: Adrian Heffernan)

The Lyric Concert: the sound & spirit of 20th century Irish music

Paul Herriott presents The Lyric Concert live from the National Concert Hall, Dublin, as the RTÉ NSO celebrates three very different voices who helped to define the sound and spirit of Irish music in the 20th century.

Lyric Concert Live • 26 Mar 20

Lyric Concert Gold: Shaun Davey celebrated with the RTÉ NSO

The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra plays the music of composer Shaun Davey in the company of the composer himself, with a programme featuring The Brendan Voyage and other classics...

Rté Lyric Fm • 18 Mar 20

Listen: Actress Derbhle Crotty boards the Mystery Train

On Mystery Train's special Sunday Service on RTÉ lyric fm, John Kelly is joined by one of our very finest - the actress Derbhle Crotty - and she picks all the records.

Mystery Train • 16 Mar 20

A Cradle Song - composer Brian Boydell (Pic: RTÉ Photographic Archive)

When Boydell met Berryman - the story behind A Cradle Song

Back in 1937, when both were students at Clare College in Cambridge, the Irish composer Brian Boydell and the American poet John Berryman met and struck up a friendship.

The Lyric Feature • 23 Mar 20

The RTÉ NSO play Gubaidulina, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev

An all-Russian evening for tonight's Lyric Concert, showcasing the country's boundless gifts for gossamer-delicate fantasy and searing, heart-on-sleeve emotion in three timeless 20th-century classics...

Lyric Concert • 09 Mar 20

Listen: Author Alan Glynn boards the Mystery Train

His novel The Dark Fields became the hit film Limitless starring Bradley Cooper, and he spoke to John about the slow road to success and not having a plan B...

Mystery Train • 04 Mar 20