Highlights - Saturday 28th June to Friday 4th July

Pictured above: The Woodpeckers Recorder Quartet at West Cork Chamber Music Festival. Hear live concerts from Bantry all this week on RTÉ lyric fm - see all our highlights below

WEEKEND CLASSICS WITH CLAUDIA BOYLE

Soprano Claudia Boyle sets the mood for a relaxing weekend. Whether you are catching up on things, chilling out or enjoying leisure activities, unwind to some of the world's most beautiful classical music. Claudia promises lots of treats on the show including her Musical Menu where she looks at Classical Music connections with food and drink; she will have many musical greats on the show (excluding herself!) in Divas and Divos. There will be something for the little ones in the house in Claudia's Kids' Classics plus the show will be topped off with new releases and much loved melodies from across the genres. Join Claudia Saturday and Sunday from 4pm as she brings you the ultimate weekend playlist.

RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 28th June, 4pm-6.30pm

RTÉ LYRIC LIVE WITH PAUL HERRIOTT

West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2025

Paul Herriott presents live from the library of Bantry House for our second live concert from Bantry as part of the 30th Edition of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival. In tonight's programme which is also being broadcast across the European Broadcasting Union, the Ardeo Quartet perform Janácek and Kaariaho and Barry Douglas performs Schubert's A minor Sonata.

Ardeo Quartet
Janácek: Quartet 2 'Intimate Letters' (with viola d'amore)
Kaija Kaariaho: Terra Memoria
Barry Douglas (piano)
Schubert: Sonata in A minor D.845

RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 28th June, 7pm-10pm

THE LYRIC FEATURE

Recalling The Layers

Recalling The Layers uncovers a hidden story embedded in the oral histories and architectural fragments of a building in the Liberties in Dublin 8, a place steeped in centuries of history.

Marshalsea Barracks, once Ireland's national debtors' prison, later a tenement, stood for nearly 200 years at the top of Bridgefoot Street. All that remains is the atmospheric locked and overgrown Ballcourt and surrounding stone walls. Architectural fragments quietly holding the past. Patricia Baker uncovers its story through historical accounts and the memory of local residents.

This is a journey into the intangible cultural heritage of a community, capturing the rich tapestry of memory, place, and identity, recalling hidden stories and layers of history, so they remain part of both the heritage and the living fabric of the area.

Contributors include historians Dr Brian Crowley, Dr Liz Gillis, Dr Cathy Scuffil, Angela Tobin, Liberties dweller, Elizabeth O Connor, Oliver Bond House Bridgefoot Street resident, Janet Cullen, Bridgefoot Street resident, Tracey Sands, Marshalsea Lane resident and Architect Grainne Hassett

Presented and produced by Patricia Baker
Sound mix by Bryan Fleming Contact Studio
Music by Gerry Horan

Recalling The Layers is a Curious Broadcast production funded by Coimisiún na Meán's Sound and Vision Broadcasting funding scheme and by RTÉ with the Television Licence Fee.

RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 29th June, 6pm-7pm

RTÉ LYRIC LIVE WITH PAUL HERRIOTT

West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2025

Paul Herriott presents live from the library of Bantry House for our third concert from Bantry House as part of the 30th Edition of the West Cork Chamber Music Festival. In tonight's programme which is also being broadcast across the European Broadcasting Union, quartets by Haydn and Mozart are performed by the Marmen Quartet and Schubert's Death and the Maiden performed by the Chiaroscuro Quartet.

Marmen Quartet
Haydn: Quartet in D major Op.33/6
Mozart: Quartet in C major K.465
Chiaroscuro Quartet
Schubert: String Quartet in D minor D.810 'Death and the Maiden'

RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 29th June, 7pm-10pm

THE FULL SCORE WITH LIZ NOLAN

We're enjoying the spoils of the ongoing West Cork Chamber Music Festival on today's Full Score as we hear the four siblings of the Tchalik quartet perform two of Mozart's string quartets in a recent coffee concert from the festival. Liz Nolan presents a showcase of unabridged musical masterworks, featuring live recordings of Irish and international performers, plus selections from the latest CD releases.

Mozart: String Quartet in B flat K.458 'Hunt'
Mozart: String Quartet in D major K.499 'Hoffmeister'

Tchalik Quartet
Louise Tchalik, violin
Gabriel Tchalik, violin
Sarah Tchalik viola
Marc Tchalik cello

RTÉ lyric fm, Monday 30th June, 1pm-4pm

THE FULL SCORE WITH LIZ NOLAN

Join Liz Nolan live from the stage of the National Concert Hall, Dublin for today's Full Score concert as National Symphony Orchestra Ireland's principal harpist, Andreja Malir, steps into the lunchtime limelight to showcase the instrument's uniquely enchanting voice. Liz Nolan presents a showcase of unabridged musical masterworks, featuring live recordings of Irish and international performers, plus selections from the latest CD releases.

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
T.C. Kelly: Fantasia for Harp and Orchestra on Two Irish Airs
Lili Boulanger: D'un matin de printemps
Alphonse Hasselmans arr. Mark Armstrong: La Source
Carlos Salzedo arr. Mark Armstrong: Rumba
Chabrier: Danse slave from Le roi malgré lui

Gavin Maloney, conductor
Andreja Malir, harp

RTÉ lyric fm, Tuesday 1st July, 1pm-4pm

NIALL CARROLL'S CLASSICAL DAYTIME

Niall Carroll plays music from the heart of the classical repertoire, with Sounds on Screen, a piece from the big or small screen each day at 11am, and each day at midday, one of Niall's Five of a Kind. This week Niall chooses by Tomaso Albinoni.

RTÉ lyric fm, Wednesday 2nd July, 10am-1pm

THE FULL SCORE WITH LIZ NOLAN

We're enjoying the spoils of the ongoing West Cork Chamber Music Festival on today's Full Score as we hear an unusual Scandinavian ensemble of four virtuoso recorder players whose arrangements of Baroque and folk they call Borrowed not Stolen. The Woodpeckers Recorder Quartet perform works by Vivaldi, Telemann, Turlough Carolan, Ruaidhrí Dall Ó Catháin and Scottish, Swedish and Danish folk tunes. Liz Nolan presents a showcase of unabridged musical masterworks, featuring live recordings of Irish and international performers, plus selections from the latest CD releases.

Woodpeckers Recorder Quartet
Caroline Eidsten Dahl
Clara Guldberg Ravn
Pernille Petersen
Kate Hearne

RTÉ lyric fm, Wednesday 2nd July, 1pm-4pm

AEDÍN IN THE AFTERNOON

Aedín welcomes in the month of July with a new work by pianist and composer Kirsten Johnson, who has composed a cycle of twelve pieces based on the months of the year. Nina Simone will sing July Tree, and we'll hear the main theme from Born on the Fourth of July by John Williams. Plus, a great piece for Saxophone quartet by Michael Torke and Ina Boyle's Psalm for Cello and orchestra.

RTÉ lyric fm, Friday 4th July, 1pm-4pm

RTÉ LYRIC LIVE WITH PAUL HERRIOTT

West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2025

Paul Herriott brings us to Bantry in West Cork for another concert from the 2025 West Cork Chamber Music Festival live from St. Brendan's Church. Through the music of Ravel, Balch and Brahms, this concert tells the stories of the many faces of love - erotic love, breakdown of love and resigned acceptance.

Lotte Betts-Dean, Ella van Poucke, Aliya Vodovozova, Nathalia Milstein
Ravel Chansons Madécasses
Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Ryan McCullough
Katherine Balch estrangement
Barry Douglas, Henning Kraggerud, Ella van Poucke, Emma Wernig
Brahms Piano Quartet in C minor Op.60

RTÉ lyric fm, Friday 4th July, 7pm-10pm