This week Niall chooses five pieces by the baroque composer Tomaso Albinoni.
RTÉ lyric fm, Wednesday 15th January, 10am-1pm
NIALL CARROLL’S CLASSICAL DAYTIME
LORCAN MURRAY’S CLASSIC DRIVE
Classic Drive brings you the perfect musical soundtrack, including Lorcan’s Pick of the Week: Études Mélodiques by Marie Awadis who says, ‘it represents the constant change of feeling between joy and disappointment, hope and despair, the excitement of experiencing love and the doubt that it will be everlasting.’ Plus, Culture File, news and sports.
RTÉ lyric fm, Tuesday 14th January, 4pm-7pm
THE FULL SCORE WITH LIZ NOLAN
Liz Nolan presents a showcase of unabridged musical masterworks, featuring live recordings of Irish and international performers, plus selections from the latest CD releases.
RTÉ lyric fm, Monday 13th January, 1pm-4pm
THE LYRIC FEATURE
We Only Want the Earth
This two-part documentary series, presented by Jonathan Grimes of the Contemporary Music Centre, explores how Irish composers are responding to the climate and biodiversity crisis through their work. Can music inspire us to take ownership of what’s happening and help us imagine and shape a better future for all? Journeying across Ireland by bike, Jonathan meets with composers to chat about how they are engaging with the climate emergency He hears how their music is seeking to sound the transformative changes we’re witnessing and ultimately give voice to hope. The series was a gold award winner at the Association for International Broadcasting’s International Media Excellence Awards in 2023 and also picked up an award in the sustainability category of the IMRO Irish Radio Awards.
Episode 1: Once Heard You Can’t Unhear It
In episode one, Karen Power describes how recording the sounds of our changing world has shaped her music. ‘I’ve been listening in the most remote places on our planet and been forever changed by them, and part of that change is in hearing the effects of humans and of industry – you can’t unhear them. It changes everything’. Listening to the natural world is also at the heart of Robert Coleman’s work and Jonathan takes a soundwalk with Robert in the woods of Belfast. Fellow sound artist and composer Natalia Beylis shares how the trauma of witnessing tree-felling in a commercial forest in Co. Leitrim, near her home, led to her composing new work.
By bike, Jonathan visits Ian Wilson in Cavan and Grainne Mulvey in Carlow to discover how profoundly climate change is affecting them and influencing their work. Jonathan explores whether music can move us to positive action with Judith Ring who says: ‘music has always been and should always be political, it’s a powerful platform to voice your opinion’. Other guests include musicologist Stephen Graham and composers Éna Brennan, Nick Roth and Jennifer Walshe.
(First broadcast – 17th March 2024)
A Contemporary Music Centre production for RTÉ lyric fm co-funded by Coimisiún na Meán, Sound & Vision Scheme and RTÉ Independent Radio Productions.
Presented by Jonathan Grimes, Contemporary Music Centre
Produced by Helen Shaw, Athena Media and Jonathan Grimes
Series Producer: Eoin O Kelly
Production Co-ordinator: Lily Collins
RTÉ lyric fm, Sunday 12th January, 6pm-7pm
OPERA NIGHT WITH PAUL HERRIOTT
Verdi’s heartbreaking masterpiece returns, with Verdi baritone Luca Salsi, reprising his devastating portrayal of the hunchbacked court jester. Radiant soprano Erin Morley is his naïve daughter, Gilda, and debuting at the Met rising tenor Pene Pati is the rakish Duke of Mantua, with Maestro Maurizio Benini on the podium to conduct the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus.
RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 11th January, 7pm-10pm
MOVIES AND MUSICALS WITH AEDÍN GORMLEY
‘You are born an artist, or you are not,’ Maria Callas famously said. ‘And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a firework. The artist is always there.’
Maria, in cinemas this weekend, is a psychological drama about opera singer Maria Callas. It is the third and final film in Larraín’s trilogy of 20th century ‘iconic women’, succeeding Jackie (2016) and Spencer (2021).
RTÉ lyric fm, Saturday 11th January, 1pm-4pm
RTÉ LYRIC LIVE WITH PAUL HERRIOTT
Paul Herriott brings us some of the most promising Irish musical talent from the 2024 Freemasons Young Musician Competition Final with recital performances by violinist Cillian O’Cathasaigh (CSM, Cork), pianists Ella Nagy (RIAM, Dublin) and Defne Gultoprak (RIAM, Dublin) and tuba player Adam Buttimer (RIAM, Dublin).
RTÉ lyric fm, Friday 10th January, 7pm-10pm
Beo ón gCuan
Sraith ceolchoirmeacha taifeadta beo i Stiúideo Cuan le plúr na ngrúpaí traidisiúnta. Inniu cloisfimid ceolchoirm le Danú, banna ceol traidisiúnta atá ar an bhfód ó 1995. Seo léiriú de chuid Stiúideo Cuan i gcomhar le RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta agus Coimisiún na Meán.
A series of live concerts recorded in Stiúideo Cuan with the best of traditional groups. Today we’ll hear a concert with Dánú, a traditional Irish music band founded in 1995. A Stiúideo Cuan production, in association with RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta and Coimisiún na Meán.
THE FULL SCORE WITH LIZ NOLAN
They open with Benjamin Britten’s arrangement for string quartet of Purcell’s memorable and atmospheric Chacony. Mendelssohn’s beautiful E flat quartet was his first published quartet and from the first bars draws the listener into a world of dramatic storytelling. Charlotte Harding’s ‘Iorsa’ evokes the scenic glen on the Isle of Arran while Moeran’s second quartet offers a beguiling world of English and Irish folk song and dance, mixed perhaps with the influence of Debussy. Liz Nolan presents a showcase of unabridged musical masterworks, featuring live recordings of Irish and international performers, plus selections from the latest CD releases.
Purcell: Chacony
Mendelssohn: Quartet in E flat major Op.12
Charlotte Harding: Iorsa
Moeran – Quartet in E flat
Piatti Quartet
Michael Trainor
Emily Holland
Miguel Sobrinho
Jessie Ann Richardson
RTÉ lyric fm, Thursday 9th January, 1pm-4pm
LORCAN MURRAY’S CLASSIC DRIVE
Broadcasting live daily Monday to Friday evenings from our Limerick studios, Lorcan Murray presents RTÉ lyric fm’s flagship show, Classic Drive. Lorcan brings you the perfect musical soundtrack, wherever you are, sharing a feast of music with both the curious and the knowledgeable. The listeners take creative control today and pick a piece of music from Lorcan’s midweek choice selection. Included in this musical feast are the latest news and sports updates and tips for what’s on where you are. There, for one and all, Lorcan’s with you all the way.
RTÉ lyric fm, Wednesday 8th January, 4pm-7pm