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Intervals and features from RTÉ lyric Live: National Symphony Orchestra, broadcast on RTÉ lyric fm each Friday at 7pm.

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    • May 23, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 17m AVG DURATION
    • 110 EPISODES


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    Latest episodes from Intervals

    The World of The lyric Jingle | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2025 19:05


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

    Piers Lane | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 19:00


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

    Yukine Kuroki | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 4:34


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

    Finghin Collins | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 23:15


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

    DIPC 2025 Winners Announcement | RTÉ Lyric Live

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2025 5:25


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

    Ed Bennett | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2025 18:17


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

    Carol McGonnell | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2025 17:41


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

    Brahms' Later Works | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2025 18:22


    Macdara Ó Seireadáin reflects on Johannes Brahms' later works

    RTÉ lyric Live Interval | Norman Lebrecht

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2025 19:06


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

    Tommy Blaize | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2024 19:24


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

    The World of The lyric Jingle | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 27, 2024 20:47


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

    Tchaikovsky's Ballet Music | RTÉ lyric LIVE Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2024 18:26


    Sandy Burnett explores Tchaikovsky's ballet music.

    The Violin | RTÉ lyric LIVE Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2024 17:25


    Vlad Smishkewych explores the sonic development of the violin

    Creative Swiping | RTÉ lyric LIVE Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2024 18:06


    Vlad Smishkewych looks at how composers sometimes recyle and reuse material

    Marianna Martinez | RTÉ lyric LIVE Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2024 18:05


    Vlad Smishkewych explores the world and music of Marianna Martinez

    What Makes A Hit? | RTÉ lyric LIVE Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2024 18:09


    Sandy Burnett explores what it takes to make a hit.

    Le Maschere by Mascagni from Wexford Festival Opera 2024 | Opera Night Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2024 28:08


    Paul Herriott talks to WFO principal conductor FRANCESCO CILLUFFO, Italian Soprano LAVINIA BINI who sings the role of Rosaura and Irish Baritone RORY MUSGRAVE who sings Dottore Graziano in tonight's production of Le Maschere by Mascagni from Wexford Festival Opera 

    Philip Glass and John Luther Adams: A World of Inspiration | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2024 18:12


    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.

    Alma Mahler | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2024 18:12


    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

    Mozart and the Webers | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 6, 2024 25:19


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

    The world of the The Curious Piano Quintet| RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2024 25:18


    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

    This Sounds of a Place: ‘Non-Western' Sounds in the Palette of Western Art Music Composers | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2024 25:20


    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.

    Beethoven's Captivating String Quartets | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2024 25:20


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

    The World of The lyric Jingle | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2024 20:37


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

    RTÉ lyric fm at 25

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2024 8:48


    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.

    In Conversation with Hugh Tinney | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2024 15:47


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

    Shostakovich | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2024 18:00


    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.

    The Violin Concerto | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2024 18:39


    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...

    Female Composers | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2024 17:17


    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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    What Makes a Hit? | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2024 18:00


    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.

    The Human Voice | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2024 17:58


    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.

    Sharon Carty Interview | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2024 18:38


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

    Charlie Stanford's Dublin | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2024 18:11


    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.

    Mozart and the Piano Concerto | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2024 18:19


    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'.

    Elgar: More Than Pomp and Circumstance | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2024 18:27


    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.

    The Chamber Music of Gabriel Fauré | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2024 18:26


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

    Sergei Diaghilev & Stravinsky | RTÉ lyric Live

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2023 18:32


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

    Art and Music | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 24, 2023 18:13


    "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.

    African-American Opera and Sacred Music | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2023 17:49


    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.

    Johannes Brahms | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2023 18:14


    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.

    The Musical Prodigy | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2023 18:15


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

    Beethoven | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2023 18:08


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

    The Violin | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2023 18:13


    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.

    The Origins of the Encore | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2023 21:09


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

    In Conversation with Barry Douglas | RTÉ lyric LIVE Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2023 18:43


    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.

    Symphonie Fantastique | RTÉ lyric LIVE Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2023 19:04


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

    Music & Art | RTÉ lyric LIVE Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2023 10:27


    Musicologist Michael Lee looks the intimate relationship between music and art.

    What Is Chamber Music? | RTÉ lyric LIVE Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2023 15:33


    Vlad Smishkewych unravels the world of meaning inferred by the musical term 'Chamber Music', exploring it's very origins.

    The Life of Robert Schumann | RTÉ lyric LIVE Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2023 19:40


    Following a performance of Schumann's Violin Sonata No.1 in A minor Op.105 by Alina Ibragimova and Cédric Tiberghien, Bernard Clarke delves into the life of Robert Schumann.

    The Work of Grazyna Bacewicz | RTÉ lyric LIVE Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 23, 2023 21:44


    Following Mairéad Hicky and Jeremie Moreau's duet of Grazyna Bacewicz's Sonata de Camera at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2023, musicologist Michael Lee looks at the work of the female polish composer and violinist.

    Behind the Scenes: Choral Directors | RTÉ lyric LIVE Interval

    Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2023 18:37


    Michael Murphy looks at the activity of the choral directors in Limerick and nationally, getting a sense of the immense work they do behind the scenes.

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