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Watch: The RTÉ Concert Orchestra perform Ireland's rugby anthem

The RTÉ Concert Orchestra with conductor Brian Byrne and Tenor Gavan Ring perform Ireland's rugby anthem Ireland's Call ahead of the kick-off of the 2023 Rugby World Cup.

Music • 12 Sep 23

Conductor Kenneth Montgomery dies aged 79

The death has been announced of Belfast-born conductor Kenneth Montgomery, the former Principal Conductor of Opera Northern Ireland and a regular guest with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.

Music • 10 Mar 23

Radiohead's Thom Yorke, pictured at Coachella Festival in 2017 (Pic: Getty)

Radiohead, A Jazz Symphony - the RTÉ CO get The Bends

Music • 10 Apr 23

Paul McCartney at 80 - RTÉ Concert Orchestra's musical tribute

Music • 07 Aug 22

Watch: Moncrieff, The RTÉ Concert Orchestra & Dublin Gospel Choir

the tommy tiernan show • 14 Mar 22

Mick Flannery & Susan O'Neill join the RTÉ CO for live concert

Music • 25 Oct 21

Watch: Retrospective - Clannad and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Music • 08 Aug 21

Watch: Atomic Hope illustrated, with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

The RTÉ Concert Orchestra • 04 May 21

Listen: RTÉ Concert Orchestra with Niamh Regan & David Kitt

This May Bank Holiday Monday on RTÉ Radio 1, two great artists joined the RTÉ Concert Orchestra for the first time...

Music • 04 May 21

The Generosity of Aird by Chris Stout & The RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Music • 19 Mar 21

Emma Langford sings (virtually) with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra (Pic: Conor Kerr)

Sing it out! The RTÉ CO celebrate International Women's Day

international womens day • 08 Mar 21

Watch: Andrea Corr & RTÉ Concert Orchestra perform Lilac Wine

Andrea Corr • 16 Jan 21

Tolu Makay & the RTÉ Concert Orchestra perform N17

The Saw Doctors' classic anthem, as you've never heard it before...

Music • 04 Jan 21

Folk Season: The RTÉ CO join The Whileaways and Emma Langford

Via RTÉ Radio 1, Fíachna O'Braonáin presents an hour of musical magic from leading folk artists The Whileaways and Emma Langford, performing alongside the RTÉ Concert Orchestra for the very first time...

The RTÉ Concert Orchestra • 03 Nov 20

Inside Tracks: RTÉ CO player David Kenny's favourite music

In a new series, members of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra share their own musical favourites... Today, meet viola player David Kenny - listen to David's playlist, via Spotify, and read more about his picks below...

Inside Tracks • 17 Nov 20

Inside Tracks: RTE CO player Siúbhán Ní Ghríofa's favourite music

In a new series, members of the RTÉ Concert Orchestra share their own musical favourites...

Inside Tracks • 16 Oct 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: Joycesongs - the music of James Joyce & Ulysses

Joycesongs features the RTÉ Concert Orchestra performing songs that James Joyce sang himself or used in his writings, particularly in Ulysses, and include popular drinking songs, opera arias, music hall numbers and ballads.

Ulysses • 08 Jun 20

Cathy Sweeney is the author of Modern Times

Alexandra Leaving: Cathy Sweeney on a Leonard Cohen masterpiece

Here from a series of short articles especially written for RTÉ Arts and Culture is writer Cathy Sweeney

Leonard Cohen • 22 Apr 20

'Cohen's late work, like Bowie's, is as profound as you can get; it will spark unsettling questions in the imagination, and tap feet, and bring eyes to the point of tears, as long as there are ears to listen to it.'

Kaddish: Mia Gallagher on finding Leonard Cohen

To coincide with the RTÉ Radio 1 broadcast of a concert of the songs of Leonard Cohen performed by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra alongside a host of guest artists, writer Mia Gallagher pens her thoughts on the musical great.

Leonard Cohen • 22 Apr 20

Listen: Favourite Five with Leonard Cohen in 1985

Listen back to Favourite Five with Leonard Cohen, first broadcast 8 April 1985 on RTÉ Radio 1.

Leonard Cohen • 20 Apr 20

Leonard Cohen: A Reawakening - Denise Blake's Hallelujah to Lenny

Here, from a series of short articles especially written for RTÉ Arts and Culture, is poet Denise Blake.

Leonard Cohen • 20 Apr 20

Maura O'Connell, Eleanor McEvoy, Mary Black and Wallis Bird perform A Woman's Heart
with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in 2020

And We'll Sing Again - author Catherine Dunne on A Woman's Heart

To coincide with the RTÉ TV broadcast of highlights of the iconic A Woman's Heart being performed by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra alongside a host of associated artists, writers also contribute to the celebration.

A Woman's Heart • 17 Apr 20

Maura O'Connell, Eleanor McEvoy, Wallis Bird and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra perform 'A Woman's Heart Orchestrated' at the National Concert Hall.

A Woman's Heart: Eleanor McEvoy on the song that changed her life

Ahead of the broadcast of A Woman's Heart Orchestrated with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra on RTÉ 1, Eleanor McEvoy remembers the background and the context that led up to the writing and recording of the song that would change everything for her...

A Woman's Heart • 15 Apr 20