Pictured: Nicola Benedetti performs The Lark Ascending on Aedín in the Afternoon this Friday
CULTURE FILE WEEKLY
Join Luke Clancy for a compilation of highlights and extras from his weekday reports on Lorcan Murray's Classic Drive. With regular interviews and explorations of music, media, technology, art, play, food and design. Culture File Weekly offers a unique take on the most intriguing and beautiful ideas that humans are creating right now.
A Soundsdoable Production for RTÉ lyric fm
RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 22nd June, 6.30pm-7.00pm
OPERA NIGHT WITH PAUL HERRIOTT
Gioachino Rossini's Guillaume Tell
In his last and 40th music theatre piece, Gioachino Rossini, the greatest composer of his day, gave the world another operatic hit. Guillaume Tell, based on a play by Schiller, uses the imposing and extravagant resources of French Grand opera to retell the legend of the Swiss liberation hero. For this masterpiece, Bertrand de Billy conducts the Vienna State Opera Orchestra featuring a formidable cast led by baritone Roberto Frontali.
RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 22nd June, 7pm-10pm
VOX NOSTRA WITH VLAD SMISHKEWYCH
What's it like being a nerd in your own time? English-born Irish composer Thomas Roseingrave might have been able to tell us! A phenomenal improviser, sightreader, and admirer of Palestrina's counterpoint, he wrote music that was much more like his richly chromatic forebears Purcell and Blow than the more popular Handellian stuff that was fashionable in his day. Considered too old-fashioned, complicated, and intellectual by some, his brilliance served only a short career: after an ill-fated marriage proposal, he moved away from London and steady employment, to what became an early retirement in Dublin and Dún Laoghaire. He left behind instrumental and vocal works, sacred and secular, and on today's programme, Vlad will dive into recordings of his music, including a new release just out in 2024 by Irish harpsichordist Bridget Cunningham of Roseingrave's harpsichord suites and other keyboard works.
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 23rd June, 7am-10am
MYSTERY TRAIN WITH JOHN KELLY
Mystery Train is a nightly journey through the many wonders of recorded music - from its vintage glories to the latest sounds. Essential listening for the discerning music fan.
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 23rd June, 7pm-9pm
MARTY IN THE MORNING
Join the dawn chorus with Marty for your morning wake-up call with music, competitions and news and weather.
RTÉ lyric fm, Monday 24th June, 7am-10am
THE FULL SCORE WITH LIZ NOLAN
Join Liz Nolan live from the stage of the National Concert Hall for another lunchtime concert from the National Symphony Orchestra as violinist Phoebe White takes centre-stage for Chausson's Poème for violin and orchestra with former principal clarinet, John Finucane, conducting. Liz Nolan presents a showcase of unabridged musical masterworks, featuring live recordings of Irish and international performers, plus selections from the latest CD releases.
Grieg: Prelude & Rigaudon from Holberg Suite
Chausson: Poème for violin and orchestra
Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite
National Symphony Orchestra
Phoebe White, violin
John Finucane, conductor
RTÉ lyric fm, Tuesday 25th June, 1pm-4pm
THE BLUE OF THE NIGHT WITH BERNARD CLARKE
The Blue of the Night connects different musical landscapes - bringing you through centuries, genres and soundscapes. Musical treasures from the ancient to the contemporary.
RTÉ lyric fm, Wednesday, 26th June, 9pm-12am
NIALL CARROLL'S CLASSICAL DAYTIME
Niall Carroll plays music from the heart of the classical repertoire with Sounds on Screen, a piece from either the big or the small screen at 11am, and at midday each day Niall chooses his Five of a Kind. This week we'll hear five pieces by Joaquin Rodrigo.
RTÉ lyric fm, Thursday 27th June, 10am-1pm
AEDÍN IN THE AFTERNOON
Stunning violin playing from French violinist Renaud Capuçon and Nicola Benedetti will treat us to The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams. A selection of beautiful choral recordings from The Tallis Scholars and closer to home favourite Irish tunes from The Gloaming and Cormac McCarthy.
RTÉ lyric fm, Friday 28th June, 1pm-4pm
