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Bang on a Can All-Stars are coming to this year's New Music Dublin

Watch New Music Dublin live on RTÉ Culture

New Music Dublin kicks off this Thursday in the National Concert Hall - the 4-day festival promises to make your head spin and your ears ring and features music and performers from Ireland and around the world...

New Music Dublin • 27 Feb 20

Composers Úna Monaghan will present work at this year's New Music Festival

New Music Festival 2020 presents 22 world premieres

New Music Dublin, the annual festival of contemporary new music that celebrates the very best of new work from Irish and International composers, have announced their full programme for 2020...

Music • 18 Feb 20

Gabriela Montero joins the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra for Valentine's Night (Pic: Shelley Mosman

Lyric Concert Gold - Valentine's Night with Beethoven and Mozart

Watch a special sold-out Lyric Concert Live from the National Concert Hall, Dublin - showcasing three vibrant orchestral showpieces of contrasting passions…with happy endings guaranteed!

Rté Lyric Fm • 24 Mar 20

The Lyric Concert: The RTÉ NCO play Bruckner's Symphony No. 8

Paul Herriott presents The Lyric Concert live from the National Concert Hall, Dublin as Mihhail Gerts conducts the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra for a performance of the largest orchestration ever conceived by Bruckner in his epic Symphony No. 8...

Rté Lyric Fm • 08 Feb 20

Alto Patricia Bardon joins the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra for Dvořák's Requiem

The Lyric Concert - Dvořák's stunning Requiem with the RTÉ NSO

Conceived for the concert hall rather than the church, Dvořák's Requiem is that rarest of things: a Mass for the dead that celebrates life.

Rté Lyric Fm • 17 Jan 20

Watch: Symphonie Fantastique deconstructed with Jaime Martin

Last week, Chief Conductor of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra Jaime Martin talked to Culture about his December 6th concert with the orchestra in the National Concert Hall, Dublin.

Rté Lyric Fm • 12 Dec 19

Jaime Martin returns to conduct the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

Lyric Concert: Tchaikovsky, Berlioz & Burn My Letters!

Paul Herriott presents a concert live from the National Concert Hall, Dublin. Chief conductor Jaime Martín returns to conduct the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra with the violinist Ellinor D'Melon for Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.

Lyric Concert Live • 06 Dec 19

Jaime Martín rehearses with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

RTÉ NSO Chief Conductor Jaime Martín on a must-see night of music

Chief Conductor Jaime Martín writes about conducting the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra in Tchaikovsky, Schnelzer and Berlioz on Friday 6th December at the National Concert Hall...

Music • 02 Dec 19

John Kinsella - celebrating a giant of Irish music

Ahead of the world premiere of John Kinsella's 11th Symphony by the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra on Friday 29 November at the National Concert Hall, Séamus Crimmins considers Kinsella's work and formidable contribution to Irish music.

Music • 22 Nov 19

'The Full Score' with Liz Nolan - LIVE Friday 3pm - RTÉ Lyric FM

The RTÉ Concert Orchestra and conductor Gavin Maloney will be live in Studio 1 with a wonderful playlist to get you in a positive mood for the weekend.

The Full Score • 15 Nov 19

Soprano Ailish Tynan on singing Strauss's Four Last Songs

Ahead of her performance of the songs with the RTÉ NSO at the National Concert Hall on 22 November, she shares her very personal thoughts on that for soprano and orchestra once described as 'the most beautifully delivered farewell in all music'

Music • 18 Nov 19

Op Idol: Irish mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught talks to Arena

Tara Erraught joins Sean Rocks for a chat and performance of the aria Piu Mesta from Rossini's Cinderella/ La Cenerentola with the RTE National Symphony Orchestra.

Opera • 05 Nov 19

The Lyric Concert: JoAnn Falletta conducts the RTÉ NSO

Michael Lee presents The Lyric Concert Live from the National Concert Hall, Dublin featuring cellist Alban Gerhardt with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and conductor JoAnn Faletta performing Strauss' masterpiece Don Quixote.

Rté Lyric Fm • 02 Nov 19

Conductor JoAnn Falletta is making her RTÉ NSO debut this November (Photo: Brendan Bannon)

Conductor JoAnn Falletta's RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra debut

Ahead of her debut with the RTÉ NSO at the National Concert Hall, Dublin on November 1st, Grammy award-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta writes for Culture about the programme for what promises to be a very memorable night for music lovers...

Music • 31 Oct 19

Conductor John Wilson returns to Ireland (Pic: Sim Canetty-Clarke)

John Wilson conducts the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

The Lyric Concert Live: Riddles and rewards aplenty are to be found in an evening of melody-filled 19th-century classics...

Rté Lyric Fm • 18 Oct 19

New RTÉ NSO Chief Conductor Jaime Martín makes his debut

Mahler's Symphony No.3 with RTÉ NSO Chief Conductor Jaime Martín

The beginning of a new chapter for the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and they Jaime Martín for his first concert as Chief Conductor, leading the Orchestra through Mahler's Symphony No.3 - watch the concert in full.

Music • 11 Oct 19

RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra: Also sprach Zarathustra & more!

Join Paul Herriott in the National Concert Hall, Dublin as he presents the Lyric Concert Live with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor Nathalie Stutzmann...

Rté Lyric Fm • 17 Sep 20

Culture Night Lyric Concert: Leonard Slatkin conducts the RTÉ NSO

Celebrate Culture Night with RTÉ lyric fm as Paul Herriott presents The Lyric Concert live from the National Concert Hall, Dublin featuring the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra with legendary conductor Leonard Slatkin and pianist Xiayin Wang.

Rté Lyric Fm • 20 Sep 19

Summer Lunchtime Concert with the RTÉ NSO: a grand season finale

Join Liz Nolan live from the National Concert Hall in Dublin for this week's RTÉ lyric fm Summer Lunchtime Concert with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, with David Brophy (conductor) and Gavan Ring (tenor).

Rté Lyric Fm • 23 Jul 19

Rain Man: Gene Kelly remembered, by his widow Patricia

The fantastic Patricia Ward Kelly, widow of the late legendary dancer and director-choreographer Gene Kelly joined Maggie Doyle in studio to discuss her new concert; Gene Kelly: A Life in Music...

RTÉ Radio 1 • 22 Jul 19

Cellist Killian White features in today's Summer Lunchtime concert

Listen: Summer Lunchtime with RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

Join Liz Nolan of RTÉ lyric fm live from the National Concert Hall in Dublin for today's Summer Lunchtime Concert with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra.

Rté Lyric Fm • 16 Jul 19

Pianist Ella Nagy joins the RTÉ RSO for today's Lunchtime Concert

Summer Lunchtime Concert: RTÉ NSO & the stuff of legend

Romance, fantasy, love of homeland and legendary heroes take centre stage in a concert that features the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and 2019 RIAM Maura Dowdall Concerto Competition winner Ella Nagy.

Rté Lyric Fm • 09 Jul 19

Summer Lunchtime Concert - the RTÉ NSO tune up for July 4th

Join Liz Nolan live from the National Concert Hall in Dublin for today's Summer Lunchtime Concert with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and Gavin Maloney (conductor).

Culture • 02 Jul 19

Watch: Summer Lunchtime Series Live with the RTÉ NSO

The Full Score's Liz Nolan presents the RTÉ lyric fm Summer Lunchtime Concerts live from the National Concert Hall. Today's concert features the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Gavin Maloney and flautist Amy Gillen.

Rté Lyric Fm • 25 Jun 19

RTÉ NSO premiere Spider-Man: Far From Home score

At last Friday's rapturously received concert by Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino and the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, Giacchino and the RTÉ NSO premiered a selection from the score of one of the summer's most eagerly anticipated movies...

Film • 26 Jun 19