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EVELYN GRANT’S WEEKEND DRIVE   Evelyn Grant takes off on a tour around some musical European cities during the holiday season. Paris, Venice, London, Madrid, and Vienna are all on the itinerary. Expect carnivals, fiestas and fireworks, but as always on Weekend Drive, there will be some hidden gems. With the usual traffic updates and news from home.  Every […]
VOX NOSTRA WITH VLAD SMISHKEWYCH   Here’s a Dublin success story for you: John Field was born in the Fair City back in 1782 and he quickly rose to prominence as a keyboardist after a public debut at age nine.  Vlad looks at this Irish composer who bridged the late Classical and early Romantic eras and features several of his […]
THE BLUE OF THE NIGHT WITH CARL CORCORAN Another chance to hear Blue of the Night live from Kaleidoscope – an evening of live music which has been described as a genre-blind mini festival – much like Blue itself.  Carl was joined by harpsichordist David Adams with music old and new; flautist Lina Andonovska with contemporary counterpoint, clarinettist John Finucane with the Kaleidoscope […]
THE LYRIC CONCERT WITH PAUL HERRIOTT   In tonight’s programme Paul puts the spotlight on the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra. Marzena Diakun and Leonidas Kavakos conduct the orchestra in concerts recorded at the Maison de la Radio, Paris over the last six months.   Mozart: Overture to the Abduction to Seralio K384 Clementi: Piano Sonata in F, Op.23/2 Vanessa Wagner (piano) […]
LIZ NOLAN’S LYRIC NOTES   Liz Nolan presents great classical music from across the ages.  The Coffee Concert at 10.30am is from the Cheltenham International Music Festival. The Norwegian ensemble, Barokksolistene perform J.S. Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins in D minor and Vivaldi’s Lute Concerto in D Coffee Concert: U.K: Town Hall, Cheltenham J.S. Bach : Concerto for Two […]
THE LYRIC CONCERT WITH PAUL HERRIOTT Paul continues his focus this week on the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra. In tonight’s concert we have Ravel’s Mother Goose, Abduraimov plays Prokofiev 3 and Elisabeth Leonskaja plays Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.9 Ravel: Mother Goose Suite Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3 in C, Op.26 Liszt: La Campanella Rachmaninov: Symphony No.1 in D minor. Op.13 Radio France […]
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