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Chill out: Ambient Orbit's epic 7-hour World Meditation Day mix

To celebrate World Meditation Day, Ambient Orbit on RTÉ lyric fm celebrated the power of mindfulness and inner peace

Lyric Fm • 21 May

Niamh O'Sullivan as Mirza and Gabrielle Philiponet as Lalla-Roukhin in Lalla-Roukh (Pics: Clive Barda)

Enjoy the Wexford Festival Opera at home with RTÉ

Opera • 01 Nov 22

Gotta dance! 5 ways to get your musicals fix during lockdown

With theatres closed indefinitely, we are crying out for just one singular sensation...

Musicals • 12 Jan 21

Sound Out Recommends: Rediscovering Florence Price

Sound Out presenter Ian McGlynn profiles one of this week's featured composers – Florence Price, the first female African-American symphonic composer.

Sound out • 19 Nov 20

Sound Out Recommends: Frank Corcoran's new works

Sound Out presenter Ian McGlynn introduces a new work from Tipperary-born composer Frank Corcoran.

Sound out • 29 Oct 20

Kenneth Montgomery, the conductor of tonight's concert.

The Lyric Concert: Elgar's Dream of Gerontius

Paul Herriott presents a concert live from the National Concert Hall, Dublin. The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and the RTÉ Philharmonic Choir join soloists and conductor Kenneth Montgomery for a performance of Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius.

Culture • 08 Nov 19

Lyric FM Gala concert back in 1999 when it first launched.

The future of Irish music and the challenges faced

Our musical life is going to become more complex as the digital world develops, and how addressing any of these challenges, requires a more unified approach, writes Toner Quinn, the editor of The Journal of Music.

Music • 07 Nov 19

Violinist Hae Sun Kang joins the RTÉ Concert Orchestra for tonight's concert

Watch: Lyric Concert live from New Music Dublin 2019

Bernard Clarke presents The Lyric Concert live from the stage of the National Concert Hall as part of New Music Dublin 2019, featuring the Irish premieres of works by two of the greatest living composers - Kaija Saariaho: and Louis Andriessen.

Music • 04 Mar 19

The Life and Music of John Field - The Lyric Feature

Lyric Feature preview: John Field's life reads like a picaresque novel. There's a touch of the Barry Lyndons about his continental peregrinations and ability to use his charm and talent to get on.

The Lyric Feature • 05 Nov 18

Today's Summer Lunchtime Live soloist, Jennifer Davis

Watch: Lyric Lunchtime live with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Lyric fm's Liz Nolan presents the concert live from the stage of the National Concert Hall for the last instalment of RTÉ Concert Orchestra's Summer Lunchtime Live Series.

Lyric Fm • 28 Aug 18

Through The Canvas: Cristin Leach on a Jack B. Yeats classic

Every week, critic Cristin Leach talks us through a different artwork for Through The Canvas on RTÉ lyric fm - this week, she's taking a closer look at Jack B. Yeats' iconic painting The Liffey Swim.

visual arts • 14 Aug 18

John Coltrane's lost album: Ravi Coltrane talks to John Kelly

Mystery Train host John Kelly speaks to the Grammy-nominated saxophonist, bandleader, and composer Ravi Coltrane, about his father John Coltrane's recently discovered 1963 album, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album.

Music • 03 Aug 18

Watch: Lyric Lunchtime live with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Liz presents today's concert live from the stage of the NCH with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra's Summer Lunchtime Concert. Plus we will have a recital from Massachusetts by pianist Garrick Ohlsson.

Music • 07 Aug 18

Watch: Lyric Lunchtime live with RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

Liz Nolan presents the RTÉ lyric fm Lunchtime Live concert from the National Concert Hall, Dublin.

Lyric Fm • 17 Jul 18

Camille Souter, Shannon Series Painting (1980)

Through The Canvas: Cristin Leach on Camille Souter's Shannon

Every week, critic Cristin Leach talks us through a different artwork for Through The Canvas on RTÉ lyric fm - this week, she's taking a closer look at Shannon Series Painting (1980) by Camille Souter, from the Irish Museum of Modern Art Collection.

visual arts • 11 Jul 18

Detail from View of Kilmallock, by John George Mulvany.

Through The Canvas: Cristin Leach on a romantic view of Ireland

Every week, critic Cristin Leach talks us through a different artwork for Through The Canvas on RTÉ lyric fm - this week, she's taking a closer look at View of Kilmallock, by John George Mulvany.

visual arts • 09 Jul 18

Through The Canvas: Cristin Leach on Sonny's Day

Every week, critic Cristin Leach talks us through a different artwork for Through The Canvas on RTÉ lyric fm - this week, she's taking a closer look at Martin Gale's 1980 painting Sonny's Day.

Through The Canvas • 11 Sep 18

Watch: Lyric Concert from the NCH - Mozart & Mahler

Nathalia Milstein, winner of the 2015 Dublin International Piano Competition, joins the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra for a performance of Mozart's 23rd Piano Concerto. Conductor John Storgards leads the orchestra in Mahler's Sixth Symphony.

Lyric Fm • 18 May 18

Composer Amy Marcy Cheney (later Amy Beach), aged 16 - this week's Lyric Feature tells her story.

The woman who wrote the Gaelic Symphony - The Lyric Feature

Listen to this week's Lyric Feature: The composer Amy Beach wrote what is arguably the first great American symphony. But where did she find her inspiration?

Music • 04 May 18

Composers Maria Minguella and Anne-Marie O'Farrell

Watch: Composer Lab 2018 with the RTÉ NSO

The RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra and Contemporary Music Centre are delighted to present world premieres of Wah-man by Maria Minguella and Three's Company by Anne-Marie O'Farrell, to mark the culmination of Composer Lab 2018.

Lyric Fm • 03 May 18

John Kelly on the sacred sounds of the almighty Al Green

Some truly great music has come from that eternal sparring match between God and The Devil. Usually it's when the sacred is secularized, like when Ray Charles takes the spiritual needs expressed in Gospel songs, and replaces them with rather more physical

Music • 16 Jan 18

Politics, Pleasure & Empire: Making Ireland's Great Gardens

For The Lyric Feature, this two-part documentary vividly brings to life the story of 17th and 18th century garden-making in Ireland as broadcaster Mary Brophy explores the influences, characters and obsessions that made Ireland's great historic gardens an

Culture • 15 Nov 17

John Kelly on Blondie's pop-punk classic Parallel Lines

Many of us recall significant moments as we waited patiently for something – anything – amid the endless banality of the acts that appeared on Top Of The Pops.

Music • 16 Jan 18

John Kelly on outsider music - Songs in the Key of Z

John Kelly writes for Culture about the Albums That Will Save Your Life... This week, he explores the world of Outsider Music, via the classic compilations Songs in the Key of Z.

Music • 28 Sep 17

Listen: Hans Zimmer talks to Marty Whelan

Ahead of his sell out concert at Dublin's 3Arena on Tuesday, 13 June, Marty Whelan had exclusive access for an interview with the Oscar, Golden Globe, Grammy and Tony award-winning film composer Hans Zimmer.

Film • 12 Jun 17

Lyric FM

Chill out: Ambient Orbit's epic 7-hour World Meditation Day mix

Enjoy the Wexford Festival Opera at home with RTÉ

Gotta dance! 5 ways to get your musicals fix during lockdown

Sound Out Recommends: Rediscovering Florence Price

Sound Out Recommends: Frank Corcoran's new works

The Lyric Concert: Elgar's Dream of Gerontius

The future of Irish music and the challenges faced

Watch: Lyric Concert live from New Music Dublin 2019

The Life and Music of John Field - The Lyric Feature

Watch: Lyric Lunchtime live with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Through The Canvas: Cristin Leach on a Jack B. Yeats classic

John Coltrane's lost album: Ravi Coltrane talks to John Kelly

Watch: Lyric Lunchtime live with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra

Watch: Lyric Lunchtime live with RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

Through The Canvas: Cristin Leach on Camille Souter's Shannon

Through The Canvas: Cristin Leach on a romantic view of Ireland

Through The Canvas: Cristin Leach on Sonny's Day

Watch: Lyric Concert from the NCH - Mozart & Mahler

The woman who wrote the Gaelic Symphony - The Lyric Feature

Watch: Composer Lab 2018 with the RTÉ NSO

John Kelly on the sacred sounds of the almighty Al Green

Politics, Pleasure & Empire: Making Ireland's Great Gardens

John Kelly on Blondie's pop-punk classic Parallel Lines

John Kelly on outsider music - Songs in the Key of Z

Listen: Hans Zimmer talks to Marty Whelan