Intervals

In conversation with Evelyn Grant, Seamus and Caoimhe discuss their duo partnership that was created during the pandemic lockdown, and about the much anticipated release of the new album in September.

Evelyn Grant talks to Carol Daly of the Cork ETB School of Music about their involvement with the West Cork Chamber Music Festival.

The IBO Young Artists Programme is a specialist early-career training programme run by the Irish Baroque Orchestra in partnership with West Cork Music. Evelyn Grant talks with Doireann Kelly and Kevin Meehan.

Evelyn Grant talks to 'cellist Nuala McKenna from her home in Amsterdam. Nuala returns to Bantry after a very impressive debut last year. She tells Evelyn about her upbringing in Germany, where her Irish father, Kevin, and her German mother, Cornelia, settled, after meeting in Trinity College, Dublin.

Mairead Hickey was born in Bermuda, and talks to Evelyn Grant about her family's move to Cork, her training there in both the classical and traditional Irish music genres, and her subsequent studies in France and at the Kromberg Academy in Germany, before she entered the music profession during the pandemic years.

Evelyn Grant talks to bowmaker Noel Burke about his craft.

Kate talks to Evelyn Grant about her musical journey from Dublin to Kiruna, and about the place that baroque music has found in the programming at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival. 

Vlad Smishkewych explores the myriad meanings and insights into Philip Glass' symphonic output (Philip Glass/Photo by Neil Libbert/Getty Images)

Alexander Sendtner reflects on Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs

Paul catches up with some of the cast and the creative team behind tonight's opera Le Trouvère

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.