Intervals

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.