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Weekend Breakfast with Louise McSharry Louise McSharry wakes up your weekends with the latest hits, classic tunes and entertainment news. RTÉ2fm Saturday 1 february 7-10am 
OPERA NIGHT – LIVE FROM THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE, NEW YORK Puccini’s Madama Butterfly Anthony Minghella’s breathtakingly beautiful and powerfully dramatic production returns to the Met, with Amanda Echalaz inher Met debut season as the tragic Cio-Cio-San. Rising tenor Bryan Hymel is Pinkerton and Philippe Auguin conducts. RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 1st February, 7pm-10pm
CEILI HOUSE In preparation for this year's Céilí House St. Patrick's Weekend Gala Concert at the National Concert Hall in Dublin on Saturday 15th March, we hear music, song and dance highlights from last year's concert.
Aedín Gormley’s Sunday Matinée Live performances and treasured favourites for your Sunday afternoon. Possibly the best-loved clarinet concerto of them all features as our live highlight, Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A with Martin Fröst, clarinet and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. Aedín’s featured artist is renowned Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andnes  who will play the […]
A WORLD OF SONG Song is the art that touches every aspect of our lives. In A World of Song this week, Liz Nolan talks to Irish soprano Ailish Tynan who is a rare artist: equally acclaimed as an opera star, and as a leading exponent of the art song, or lied. From large-scale productions to the intimacy of […]
IN CONCERT The Gloaming ; Martin Hayes, fiddle. Iarla O'Lionaird, vocals. Caoimhin O'Raghallaigh, hardanger. Dennis Cahill, guitar. Thomas Bartlett, piano. Recorded live at The National Concert Hall on 26th Feb 2014 The music they make is ephemeral yet furious, pairing memorable, yearning melodies with a progressive style -it is a band with a sound all of its own. Sparse and beautiful. Authentic and tune-filled. And capable of raucous power. (Part 1) Producer : Aidan Butler
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 with a Coffee Concert from Bucharest at 11am. Coffee Concert: Romania: Romanian Atheneum, Bucharest Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 Bach: Concerto for Violin and Oboe, BWV 1060, arranged for violin and harpsichord […]
Rick in the Afternoon Music, blather, infotainment, online nonsense, pointless research and competitions to make your afternoon tolerable. RTÉ2fm Monday 3 February 2pm 
DAN HEGARTY – THE ALTERNATIVE CAT DOWLING IN THE RTE 2FM SESSION (REPEAT) Cat Dowling gave one of the best albums of 2013 with the release of her debut solo album ‘The Believer’ in May. Her husky and achingly intimate vocals will draw you in from the outset, and has drawn comparisons with PJ Harvey on more than one occasion. […]
DAN HEGARTY – THE ALTERNATIVE BURRIED TREASURE FEATURING: ‘A GRAND LOVE STORY’ BY KID LOCO This is a new feature on the show, that looks at albums from the past, which were overlooked, or have been swallowed up by time. ‘A Grand Love Story’ is French musician/producer/remixer Kid Loco’s second album, which he released in 1997. It’s sophisticated without being […]