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RTÉ lyric fmMOVIES AND MUSICALS Saturday 3rd October, 1.00pm RTÉ lyric fmTHE LYRIC CONCERT WITH PAUL HERRIOTT Saturday 3rd October, 8.00pm RTÉ lyric fmSTRIKE UP THE BAND Sunday 4th October, 6.30pm RTÉ lyric fmJAZZ ALLEY Wednesday 7th October, 7.00pm RTÉ lyric fmGRACE NOTES Thursday 8th October, 7.00pm RTÉ lyric fmTHE LYRIC FEATURE – Digitising Rit [...] Friday 9th October, 7.00pm

MOVIES AND MUSICALS In the week where Julie Andrews celebrates her 80th Birthday, another chance to hear Aedín Gormley’s 2008 interview on the occasion of the publication of the first part of her book – Home, A Memoir of My Early Years. Aedín talks to the star of stage and screen about her fascinating life and career. Julie […] RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 3rd October, 1.00pm

THE LYRIC CONCERT WITH PAUL HERRIOTT In tonight’s concert Michael Sanderling conducts the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme featuring Gubaidulina’s Fachwerk and Shostakovich’s Symphony No.13 Gubaidulina: Fachwerk for bayan, drums and strings Shostakovich: Symphony No.13 in B Flat minor, Op.113 ‘Babi-Yar’ NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Gunther Groissbock (bass) Estonian National Male Chorus Elsbeth Moser (bayan) Michael Sanderling (conductor) RTÉ […] RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 3rd October, 8.00pm

STRIKE UP THE BAND Strike up the Band presented by Evelyn Grant, is all about music for wind and brass – from military bands to concert bands, brass bands, and symphonic wind ensembles. Great music with no strings attached. This week’s programme opens with Fanfare & Flourishes. Evelyn puts the spotlight on the influential conductor Frederick Fennell and his […] RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 4th October, 6.30pm

JAZZ ALLEY New Stuff. The monthly dip into new releases includes trombone and conch shell virtuoso Steve Turre’s new album Spiritman and Harold Mabern’s live trio recording Right On Time, amongst others. RTÉ lyric fm, Wednesday 7th October, 7pm-8pm RTÉ lyric fm, Wednesday 7th October, 7.00pm

GRACE NOTES Sibling Revelry. It’s a wonderful thing when families can sit down and make music together. One such family, who have been making music for a very long time, are the Caseys from Bandon. All are incredibly talented, Nollaig and Mairéad play the fiddle, and Máire is a harpist. They’ve just released an album, the […] RTÉ lyric fm, Thursday 8th October, 7.00pm

THE LYRIC FEATURE – Digitising Rita Rita Lynch was born in Macroom in 1914 and showed an early talent for singing which was encouraged by her mother. Despite having her early career disrupted by the Second World War she went on to record for HMV and to tour extensively performing in operas, concerts and oratorios in Ireland, the UK and the […] RTÉ lyric fm, Friday 9th October, 7.00pm

OPERA NIGHT Bernard Clarke brings us to this year’s Salzburg Festival for a performance of Jules Massenet’s Werther starring Piotr Beczala in the leading role and Angela Gheorghiu as Charlotte. Alejo Perex conducts the Salzburg Festival Children’s Chorus and the Mozarteum Orchestra RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 10th October,7pm-10pm RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 10th October, 7.00pm

THE GREEN SCREEN Resident for over forty years in Wicklow, director, producer and writer John Boorman shares his memories of film production and film politics within the Irish film industry, and talks to Garret Daly about working on films such as Excalibur, The General and Queen and Country. RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 11th October, 1am-2am RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 11th October, 1.00am

THE BLUE OF THE NIGHT WITH CARL CORCORAN No vocalist in recent memory has won as many awards in such a short time as Cécile McLorin Salvant, a 26-year-old who studied classical and baroque singing before switching to jazz. Her new CD, For One To Love, is sure to add to the tally. We air selections from the album each night this […] RTÉ lyric fm, Monday 12th October, 10.00pm

THE ASTROLABE WITH VLAD SMISHKEWYCH Explore science and culture through music on The Astrolabe, with an hour’s sonic journey through time, history and space. Join Vlad Smishkewych in charting our cosmic course as cultural animals, getting to know ourselves and our place in the universe by the music we make. In tonight’s programme: Pluto and music from the Netherworld […] RTÉ lyric fm, Tuesday 13th October, 7.00pm

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