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DAVE FANNING Dave Fanning brings you a mix of interviews, newspaper reviews, movies and music every Saturday and Sunday Weekends, 9-11am
MOVIES AND MUSICALS ‘I’m like the luckiest girl in the world.  I’ve gotten to be a princess; I’ve gotten to work with the Muppets.  A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies.’  (Amy Adams) Music this afternoon from three films […]
Rabharta Ceoil ón bhFleadh Live from Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann in Ennis, Co. Clare.
OPERA NIGHT – Verdi’s Don Carlo We travel to the Vienna State Opera for a production of Verdi’s Don Carlo.  Ramon Vargas is in the title role with Placido Domino as Rodrigo. Myung-whun Chung conducts the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and Chorus. RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 19th August, 7pm-10pm
VOX NOSTRA WITH VLAD SMISHKEWYCH Summertime is always replete with festivals, and as August starts drawing to a close several important early music festivals come to mind – including Utrecht OudeMuziek, the Laus Polyphoniae Festival presented by AMUZ in Antwerp, and the festival series in Ambronay, France. Not to be missed are also some of the Irish festivals coming up […]
LARRY GOGAN Featuring the Golden Hour, the legendary Just A minute Quiz and today’s hottest sounds. Weekends, 1-3pm
NOVA This week Nova focuses on HomeSpace an acousmatic work by Cork Phonographers Union.  HomeSpace is a work for soundtrack and percussionist by Cork Phonographers Union, a group of artists with an interest in sound recording. As part of Cork Midsummer Festival 2017 artists Claire Guerin, John Hough, Rob Ireson, Brian Mac Domhnaill, Harry Moore, Irene […]
The Rolling Wave We revisit some old Raidió Éireann recordings from 1947 with new information about the players and singers who took part 70 years ago. Also, three anti-war songs from Frank Harte, accordion music from Finbarr Dwyer and tracks from a new CD “From Camden to Tulla”. RTÉ Radio 1 Sunday 9pm
LIZ NOLAN’S LYRIC NOTES Liz Nolan presents great classical music from across the ages.  The Coffee Concert at 10.30am is from the Mozart Festival in Wurtzburg, Germany. Violinist Alina Pogostkina, the Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra and conductor Sakari Oramo perform the Sinfonias in A and C by C.P.E.Bach. Coffee Concert: Germany: Residenz, Kaisersaal, Würzburg C.P.E.Bach: Sinfonia in A, Wq. 182/4 […]
THE LYRIC CONCERT WITH PAUL HERRIOTT Tonight Paul Herriott comes live from the Royal Albert Hall, London for a Proms concert with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Beethoven: Leonore Overture No.3 Op.72c Stravinsky: Violin Concerto Leila Josefowicz (violin) Gerald Barry: Canada Allan Clayton (tenor) Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla (conductor) RTÉ […]