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In our interval this evening, explore the world of the lyric jingle with colleagues from across RTÉ lyric fm

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Paul Herriott chats with pianist and judge for this years competition Piers Lane.

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The landscape of contemporary classical music is rich with diverse voices that draw inspiration from a countless myriad of sources. Among these voices are Philip Glass and John Luther Adams, two composers who have made profound contributions to the genre of art music over the last decades.

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Vlad explores Alma Mahler's life through the medium of her music, exploring how her compositions reflected the different waypoints of her personal and artistic journey. (c) Getty Images

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Vlad Smishkewych takes a peek into the personal and professional intertwinings of the Mozart and Weber families. (c) Getty Images

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How much do we know about the origins of the piano quintet? This easy combination—take a string quartet, add piano, and voila!—is one that tok until the late Classical period to develop. Vlad Smishkewych explores the world of the The Curious Piano Quintet

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Vlad Smishkewych explores whether there are special “ingredients” you can add to Western Art Music to make it sound Non-Western, without falling into the tokenism trap.

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Vlad Smishkewych explores the ins, outs, ups, and downs of Beethoven’s uniquely captivating late string quartets.

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In our interval this evening, explore the world of the lyric jingle with colleagues from across RTÉ lyric fm.

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As RTÉ lyric fm celebrates 25 years on the air, we have been trawling through our archives and rediscovering some significant moments, voices and memories from the last quarter of a century. See how many of them you can recognise or remember.

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RTÉ lyric fm presenter Aedin Gormley chats to Hugh Tinney about his approach to New Music.

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Shostakovich composed 15 string quartets during his career but in tonight's RTÉ lyric Live Interval Sandy Burnett examines the one that's played more often than all of the others put together.

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Finghin Collins Artistic Director of Dublin International Piano Competition 2025 chats with Paul Herriott

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Do we need heroes in music? In tonight's RTÉ lyric Live Interval, David Vivian Russell wonders where better to find heroes than in music...

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When the subject of female composers of classical music comes up, it's often said that there aren't very many to choose from... but, in reality, history just didn't get round to telling us about them.

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Sandy Burnett takes a look at four intriguing examples of what we now consider great classical hits to see how they went down in their own time.

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Vlad Smishkewych talks about how and why people have considered certain voices beautiful across the ages in Western art music, drawing a few important ideas from other traditions along the way.

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Michael Lee catches up with Sharon Carty about her new release ‘Stanford: Cushendall, Irish Song Cycles’ helping to mark the Stanford Centenary.

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Michael Lee travels back in time to 1862 where a young 'Charlie' Stanford is already beginning to get noticed in Dublin as a bit of a prodigy.

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Looking back over the past 250 years, Sandy Burnett believes that it was Mozart who put the piano concerto genre on its feet, starting with his Piano Concerto No. 9 'Jeunehomme'.

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When we think of Edward Elgar, who never received a composition lesson in his life, it is his large scale works that come to mind. However, Michael Lee believes that Elgar's smaller compositions shed a view into a more private side of his music-making.

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Michael Lee observes that while changes in the work of other composers are obvious over time, Fauré's career follows a more insular pattern.

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Sandy Burnett takes a snapshot look at the world of Russian art critic Sergei Diaghilev and composer Igor Stravinsky.

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Yukine Kuroki, winner of the 2022 Dublin International Piano Competition sent us an audio diary of her experience.

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"Art and music, images and phrases, brush strokes and notes," adduces Sandy Burnett, "on the face of it, the two forms are quite separate things..." The influences of visual artists and musical composers upon each other are explored in tonight's RTÉ lyric Live Interval.

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In tonight's RTÉ lyric Live Interval, Sandy Burnett considers the efforts of George Gershwin, Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, Mary Lou Williams and Leonard Bernstein to introduce the African-American experience to opera and sacred music in early 20th century America.

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If there's one composer whose music sums up the sophistication and seriousness of the late 19th Century, opines Sandy Burnett, it has to be Johannes Brahms.

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In this week's RTÉ lyric Live Interval, Sandy Burnett looks at the concept of the musical prodigy.

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This time on the RTÉ lyric Live Interval, Sandy Burnett looks at Beethoven’s time in Vienna.

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RTÉ lyric fm presenter Vlad Smishkewych goes back to the days of Mozart, Bach and Vivaldi to catch a glimpse of the early history of the violin.

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RTÉ lyric fm presenter Vlad Smishkewych looks at just how the concept of the encore evolved.

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RTÉ lyric Live presenter Paul Herriott had the chance to catch up with soloist Barry Douglas to chat about his career and the role Tchaikovsky played in it.

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Broadcaster Sandy Burnett looks at one of the great works - Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique.

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Finghin Collins announces the winners of the 2025 Dublin international Piano Competition

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Ahead of the world premiere of his Piano Concerto at New Music Dublin Paul Herriott chats with composer Ed Bennett

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Ahead of her performance at New Music Dublin Paul chats with clarinetest Carol McGonnell

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From the archives John Kelly chats with conductor Norman Lebrecht about Gustav Mahler

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Paul chats with vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Tommy Blaize

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In our interval this evening, explore the world of the lyric jingle with colleagues from across RTÉ lyric fm.

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