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, and there will be something for the little ones in the house in Claudia's Kids' Classics. The show will be topped off with new releases, including Raphael Feuillatre's Spanish Serenades, packed with Spanish guitar favourites and hidden gems. All this, 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 12th July, 4pm-6pm
OPERA NIGHT WITH PAUL HERRIOTT
The Metropolitan Opera New York's Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition is a US wide programme designed to discover promising young opera singers and assist in their artistic and professional development. Each season, more than 1,400 applicants participate in a series of auditions leading up to the Grand Finals Concert, featuring the Met Orchestra, this year conducted by Karen Kamensek, in which a small group of finalists compete for cash prizes and the chance to launch a major operatic career. Since the programme's inauguration more than 70 years ago, the competition has discovered generations of star singers, including Jessye Norman, Frederica von Stade, Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, Denyce Graves, Stephanie Blythe, Sondra Radvanovsky, Lawrence Brownlee, Lisette Oropesa, Jamie Barton, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Nadine Sierra, and Ryan Speedo Green.
RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 12th July, 7pm-10pm
VOX NOSTRA WITH VLAD SMISHKEWYCH
We cap off this week's journey a day ahead of Bastille Day, listening to music around the time of the French Revolution and tied to this date in 1789, when events were set in motion that led to the storming of the infamous prison-fortress. Vox Nostra also explores music by Juan del Encina and other gems from the Spanish Renaissance villancicos. From Revolutions, to Reformation, to Counter-Reformation, Vox Nostra follows events of yesteryear and provides a music backdrop for many of the events we read about in the history books.
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 13th July, 7am-10am
THE LYRIC FEATURE
Music, Romanticism & the Sublime
Virtuosity, Performing the Impossible 2
Sometime between the 1780s and the 1820s something changed forever in European culture and nowhere was this more apparent than in music. It was now possible to imagine that music itself could express ideas, and help people understand-or at least experience-something of the world around them. In this series, Michael Lee explores the changing world of music in the Romantic Era and its transcendent ideal: the sublime. Whether recreating the noise of revolution, challenging performers to new heights of virtuosity, or exploring the inner world of the imagination, music would never be the same again. Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn
Programme 2: Balancing the demands of virtuosity and poetry, Niccolo Paganini, Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt.
Presenter: Michael Lee
(First broadcast - 30th September 2018)
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 13th July, 6pm-7pm
LORCAN MURRAY'S CLASSIC DRIVE
Classic Drive brings you the perfect musical soundtrack, including Lorcan's Pick of the Week: Pablo Ferrández's Moonlight Variations, a new album exploring the creative intimacy of the night. And with news, weather and sports, Lorcan's with you all the way!
RTÉ lyric fm, Monday 14th July, 4pm-7pm
THE FULL SCORE WITH LIZ NOLAN
Liz Nolan returns to the stage of the National Concert Hall, Dublin for another lunchtime concert with National Symphony Orchestra Ireland, conductor Luis Toro Araya and baritone, Sean Boylan.
Johann Strauss: II Die Fledermaus Overture
Verdi: 'C'est mon jour suprême... Ah, je meurs' (Don Carlos)
Soro: Danza fantástica
Wagner: 'O, du mein holder Abendstern' (Tannhäuser)
Verdi: Ballet music from Macbeth
Rossini: 'Largo al factotum' (The Barber of Seville)
Johann Strauss: II Unter Donner und Blitz / Thunder and Lightning Polka
Luis Toro Araya, conductor
Seán Boylan, baritone
National Symphony Orchestra Ireland
RTÉ lyric fm, Tuesday 15th July, 1pm-4pm
Photo | Bertie Watson
NIALL CARROLL’S CLASSICAL DAYTIME
Shirley Keane 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 Shirley's Five of a Kind. This week Shirley chooses pieces by Claude Debussy.
RTÉ lyric fm, Wednesday 16th July, 10am-1pm
THE FULL SCORE WITH LIZ NOLAN
Our Full Score Concert comes from Music for Galway's midwinter celebration of Ravel last January and presents early works of Ravel, starting with some simple piano works written as homages to other composers and finishing with one of his most punishing works, the famed Gaspard de la Nuit inspired by poetry by Aloysius Bertrand. In between we hear some early songs and one of Ravel's most popular works, the Mother Goose Suite, for piano duet. Liz Nolan presents a showcase of unabridged musical masterworks, featuring live recordings of Irish and international performers, plus selections from the latest CD releases.
François-Xavier Poizat, piano
Finghin Collins, piano
Gemma Ní Bhriain, mezzo-soprano
RTÉ lyric fm, Thursday 17th July, 1pm-4pm
MARTY IN THE MORNING
Join Marty Whelan live from the city of Verona, for a special celebration marking the 150th anniversary of George Bizet's beloved opera, Carmen. Tune in as Marty samples the cultural sights and sounds of this beautiful city, including exclusive backstage access to Verona Opera Festival.
RTÉ lyric fm, Friday 18th July, 7am-10am
RTÉ LYRIC LIVE WITH PAUL HERRIOTT
Paul brings listeners a very special concert by superstar siblings Sheku and Isata Kanneh Mason. Recorded at the National Concert in Dublin in April. The duo perform Mendelssohn's Cello Sonata No.1, Faure's Cello Sonata No.1, Natalie Klouda's Tor Mordôn (Irish Premiere) and Poulenc's Cello Sonata.
RTÉ lyric fm, Friday 18th July, 7pm-10pm
