MOVIES AND MUSICALS WITH AEDÍN GORMLEY
Aedín marks the 10th anniversary of the film La La Land starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling with the Oscar award-winning music of Justin Hurwitz. This year also marks the 85th anniversary of Citizen Kane from the 25-year-old director Orson Welles, scored by Bernard Herrmann, which has endured as a cinematic masterpiece. Plus, Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly in Me and My Gal, and Audra McDonald in Gypsy.
RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 11th April, 1pm-4pm
OPERA NIGHT WITH PAUL HERRIOTT
The Metropolitan Opera New York presents Mozart's Don Giovanni
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts his first Met performances of Mozart's classic, with bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green in his Met role debut as the licentious Don. Ivo van Hove's production also features sopranos Federica Lombardi, Janai Brugger, and Hera Hyesang Park as Don Giovanni's three conquests, with tenor Ben Bliss and bass-baritone Adam Plachetka as Don Ottavio and Leporello. A second sensational cast then takes the stage for additional performances, led by Principal Guest Conductor Daniele Rustioni.
RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 11th April, 7pm-10pm
Photo | Karen Almond | Met Opera
VOX NOSTRA WITH VLAD SMISHKEWYCH
As we prepare for a Machaut year in 2027, this year the composer's anniversary falls on a Vox Nostra Sunday. Machaut, who died this day in 1377, was one of the late medieval period's most prolific and important composers. We'll get to hear new and old takes on his music, from classic recordings by Gothic Voices, to present-day interpretations on medieval instruments, and many points in between. The variety of Machaut's output - chansons, masses, lais, and more - are part of this morning's playlist, alongside music of a very famous Dublin premiere about three and a half centuries later - Handel's Messiah, premiered on Fishamble Street in Dublin this day in 1742.
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 12th April, 7am-10am
THE LYRIC FEATURE
Master of the Musick
The Irish Baroque Orchestra turns 30 this year and The Lyric Feature is marking the occasion with rebroadcasts of programmes we've made inspired by their projects and scored by their performances.
Matthew Dubourg a pupil of Francesco Geminiani, was a charismatic virtuoso and composer who spent most of his life in Ireland and who was appointed Chief Composer and Master of His Majesty's Musick in Ireland in 1728. Among his achievements, Dubourg led the orchestra at the premiere of Georg Friedrich Handel's great oratorio Messiah.
Peter Whelan, artistic director of the Irish Baroque Orchestra believes Dubourg deserves to be acknowledged as one of Ireland's most influential musicians. He has researched the composer and his music for an album from the Irish Baroque Orchestra which was released in 2019. With many of his compositions having only recently come to light, most are presented in the recording for the very first time. The programme tells the fascinating story of Dubourg in an 18th century Dublin that was renowned for its rich musical life, attracting composers such as Handel, Geminiani and Arne. Additional contributors include from violinist Claire Duff and musicologist Triona O Hanlon.
Presenter : Máire Nic Gearailt
Producer : Joe Ó Dubhghaill (A Pine Valley Production for the Lyric Feature)
(First broadcast 1st September 2019)
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 12th April, 6pm-7pm
THE FULL SCORE WITH LIZ NOLAN
Today's Full Score concert was recorded recently in the Whyte Recital Hall in the Royal Irish Academy of Music. The IBO and Peter Whelan celebrate their 30th anniversary with the story of Tenducci, the superstar castrato who took Dublin by storm in the 18th century. Known originally as the man who taught Mozart to sing, Tenducci moved to Ireland in the 1760s and enraptured audiences with his astonishing castrato voice. Based on original source material, 'The Trials of Tenducci' weaves together a vivid concert experience, with music by Mozart, Gluck, Arne and Giordani's famous Irish Medley. Star countertenor Hugh Cutting joins the energetic forces of the Irish Baroque Orchestra, transporting you to 1760s Dublin. Liz Nolan presents a showcase of unabridged musical masterworks, featuring live recordings of Irish and international performers, plus selections from the latest CD releases.
RTÉ lyric fm, Monday 13th April, 1pm-4pm
THE FULL SCORE WITH LIZ NOLAN
In our Full Score concert, pianist Andreas Ioannides joins forces with Lynda O'Connor (violin) and Ailbhe McDonagh (cello) to bring Tchaikovsky's monumental and heart-wrenching Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50, in a recording of a recent performance in TU Dublin Concert Hall. Liz Nolan presents a showcase of unabridged musical masterworks, featuring live recordings of Irish and international performers, plus selections from the latest CD releases.
RTÉ lyric fm, Tuesday 14th April, 1pm-4pm
LORCAN MURRAY'S CLASSIC DRIVE
Classic Drive brings you the perfect musical soundtrack, including Lorcan's Pick of the Week: Mirage. For his debut album, double bassist, Marc André has recorded an eclectic programme that showcases the full expressive range of the double bass in new arrangements with piano. The repertoire includes Piazzolla's Nightclub 1960, Tchaikovsky's Valse sentimentale, and Debussy's Clair de Lune. And with news, weather and sports, Lorcan's with you all the way!
RTÉ lyric fm, Tuesday 14th April, 4pm-7pm
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, Wednesday 15th April, 10am-1pm
MARTY IN THE MORNING
Join Simon Delaney as he takes the chill out of your early mornings with music, news, weather and travel updates.
RTÉ lyric fm, Thursday 16th April, 7am-10am
AEDÍN IN THE AFTERNOON
With the New Music Dublin Festival in full swing, Aedín includes music from Confluence, a recent release of music first performed at last year's festival by The NCH Gamelan Orchestra featuring the celebrated Irish uilleann piper Mark Redmond. A new release from American composer and conductor Maria Schneider entitled American Crow, and violinist Lisa Batiashvili and pianist Alice Sara Ott treat us to the music of Clara Schumann. Also on the music menu, Muireann Bradley and Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh.
RTÉ lyric fm, Friday 17th April, 1pm-4pm
RTÉ LYRIC LIVE WITH PAUL HERRIOTT
Join RTÉ lyric fm's Paul Herriott and Artistic Director of New Music Dublin, John Harris, as they co-present tonight's production from the 2026 edition of New Music Dublin which features Gerald Barry's take on Oscar Wilde's Salome in its Irish premiere with National Symphony Orchestra Ireland. Barry describes Salome as 'an opera of voyeurism, the moon, french, God, punishment of sin, misunderstanding, sex, the metronome, suicide, hysteria, hunger, blood, typing, speaking correctly, sterility, The Blue Danube, the wind, fever, art, Wilde, dreaming, beheading, Frankenstein, kissing.’
Gerald Barry: Salome (concert performance) [Irish premiere]
Alison Scherzer, Salome
Amy Ní Fhearraigh, The Queen
Timur, The King
Vincent Casagrande, The Prisoner
Stefan Sevenich, The Young Syrian
David Howes, Soldier
National Symphony Orchestra Ireland
Jérôme Kuhn, conductor
RTÉ lyric fm, Friday 17th April, 7pm-9pm
