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NOVA Presented by Bernard Clarke, Nova is about new music, a blend of contemporary classical, electronic, experimental and more. Tonight, the first of four concerts from the 2015 Horizons series with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra recorded last Tuesday in the National Concert Hall. This week’s featured composer is Gráinne Mulvey who will be talking to […]
THE BLUE OF THE NIGHT Ewan MacColl, born Jimmy Miller in Salford, Lancashire, England, was singer, songwriter, broadcaster, record producer, collector of folk music, political activist, newspaper editor, playwright and actor. In the week of the centenary of his birth, we’ll listen to MacColl material interpreted by himself and others. RTÉ lyric fm, Monday 19th January, 10pm-1am
THE LYRIC CONCERT WITH PAUL HERRIOTT Paul Herriott presents RTÉ lyric fm’s concerts on weekday evenings, including live concerts and live recordings from Ireland and abroad. Paul brings us to the Grand Hall of the Old Opera, Frankfurt for a concert of Beethoven and Schumann Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D, Op.61 Schumann: Symphony No.4 in D minor, Op.120 Frankfurt Radio Symphony […]
NIALL CARROLL’S CLASSICAL DAYTIME Join Niall Carroll for some great classical music as he takes you from brunch to late lunch on Classical Daytime including Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 in E minor in the Coffee Concert from Lucerne at 11am. Coffee Concert: Switzerland: Culture and Congress Centre, Lucerne Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 (From the […]
GRACE NOTES   Traditional Irish music presented by Ellen Cranitch – the players, the influences and the new directions. The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance recently celebrated its 20th anniversary, and marked the occasion with a weekend of seminars, workshops, and performances. Convocation 20 brought together luminaries from the academic and performing worlds,  writer Joseph […]
THE LYRIC FEATURE – FREEBORN MAN   This first of two programmes examining the work of singer, folksong collector, dramatist and broadcaster Ewan MacColl on the occasion of the centenary of his birth in January 2015.  We hear from Clare-based song collectors Jim Carroll and Pat Mackenzie who were members of MacColl’s renowned singers collective The Critics Group in London of […]