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Intervals

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

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0:25:19

Mozart and the Webers | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

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2024/07/06

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

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0:25:18

The world of the The Curious Piano Quintet| RTÉ lyric...

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2024/07/05

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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0:25:20

This Sounds of a Place: ‘Non-Western’ Sounds in the...

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2024/06/29

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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0:25:20

Beethoven’s Captivating String Quartets | RTÉ lyric...

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2024/06/28

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

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0:20:37

The World of The lyric Jingle | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

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2024/05/01

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

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0:08:48

RTÉ lyric fm at 25

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2024/05/01

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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0:15:47

In Conversation with Hugh Tinney | RTÉ lyric Live...

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2024/04/25

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

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0:18:00

Shostakovich | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

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2024/04/12

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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0:18:39

The Violin Concerto | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

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2024/03/15

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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0:17:17

Female Composers | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

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2024/03/08

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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0:18:00

What Makes a Hit? | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

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2024/03/01

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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0:17:58

The Human Voice | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

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2024/02/23

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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0:18:38

Sharon Carty Interview | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

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2024/02/16

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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0:18:11

Charlie Stanford's Dublin | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

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2024/02/02

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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0:18:19

Mozart and the Piano Concerto | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

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2024/01/26

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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0:18:27

Elgar: More Than Pomp and Circumstance | RTÉ lyric...

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2024/01/19

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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0:18:26

The Chamber Music of Gabriel Fauré | RTÉ lyric Live...

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2024/01/05

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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0:18:32

Sergei Diaghilev & Stravinsky | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

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2023/12/01

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

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0:18:13

Art and Music | RTÉ lyric Live Interval

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2023/11/24

"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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0:17:49

African-American Opera and Sacred Music | RTÉ lyric...

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2023/11/17

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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