We’re live at Bord Bia Bloom today on the RTÉ lyric fm stage! Our jazz ensemble is just closing out Marty in the Morning, and we’re live on The Full Score with @lizlyricfm.bsky.social this afternoon!

Just remembered I once heard someone mishear “Mycenaean” as “my son, Ian” and now I can’t watch the Chris Nolan Odyssey trailer without laughing 😆

That's my retirement project sorted.

Tune into The Full Score with @lizlyricfm.bsky.social on RTÉ lyric fm this afternoon to hear the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and principal flautist Silvija Ščerbavičiūtė in a lunchtime concert recorded in the RTÉ Radio Centre, under the baton of Swann Van Rechem.

A memory of past daftness! Sent on to me by late friend and scholar, the great Dr. Ita Beausang. Yours truly at the tender age of 25, celebrating the sign-off on my M.Phil on the music of Poulenc with a pose outside his Paris apartment. 30 years later, and I'm still mad about the homme...

Scottish Opera offers hugely discounted tickets to people under the age of 26. In fact most of the theatres here do, usually for around £10. Which means you could see a whole live show for less than the cost of a ticket to one of Timothee Chalamet’s films. Just saying.

Listen back to this week's RTÉ lyric fm Lunchtime concert, broadcast live from @rte.ie Studio 1 on Wednesday: www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

11,000 new listeners in one year, you say?!?! Hurray 🥳💃🎶🕺! And welcome to our new friends on the #FullScore, following the latest #JNLRs success. Meself, Linda McGlynn & Producer Áine Fay are delighted to have your company for the complete classical experience, 1-4pm Mon- Thurs @rte.ie lyric fm.

Maestro and musician! What a beautiful @rte.ie lyricfm Spring Lunchtime Concert w/ @rteco.rte.ie on today's #FullScore- as vln. Patrick Rafter helmed & starred with the ensemble in Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending, Elgar's Salut D'Amour, plus other lyrical works. Bravi tutti! 🎻👏📻

Tomorrow: RTÉ lyric fm Lunchtime with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, live on the Full Score with @lizlyricfm.bsky.social Patrick Rafter directs from the violin Join us for Rossini, Elgar, Puccini, Vaughan Williams and Amy Beach 📻 Tune into RTÉ lyric fm 1.30-2.30pm

Huge thanks to Richard Fitzpatrick @irishexaminer.bsky.social for this profile under The Culture that Made Me column. And there's a nod to my happy years living in Cork. Beannachtaí na Féile Bhrìd oraibh go léir 💃🌼🎶, @rte.ie lyricfm (link in replies)

This Thursday, tune into The Full Score with @lizlyricfm.bsky.social on RTÉ lyric fm at 1.30pm to hear the RTÉ Concert Orchestra broadcast live from RTÉ Studio 1 - conducted by Swann Van Rechem.

All set! Thrilled to present at today's @nationalsymphonyorchestrairl New Year's Day Gala @nationalconcerthall- a sparkling programme of Viennese favourites, w/ acclaimed maestro Tom Fetherstonhaugh & radiant Irish diva Ava Dodd. Toi toi toi to all! 🥂✨️🎶🎉

... and a very blingy Christmas from the #FullScore team! Myself & @lindamcglynnoconnor (pictured) & producer Áine Fay (making the magic happen elsewhere) would like to thank you for your company on the complete classical experience- here's to a new year of great maaterworks! @rtelyricfm 🤶🎄🎁

A happy reminder of the most sensational night! Honoured to present at New Dublin Voices 20th anniversary gala Christ Church Cathedral Dublin. Bravi tutti- to my great friend, NDV founding maestra Bernie Sherlock, and to all the choir, you guys set the standard! RTÉ lyric fm (📸 GMU Photography )

Huge thanks to Ruth O'Connor for her @irishexaminer.bsky.social feature on my Saturdays,& the Summer Lunchtime Concert Series. The celebrations continue w/ @rteco.rte.ie ! Tues. 12/08, 1.05pm National Concert Hall, broadcast live RTÉ lyric fm. (📸 Andres Poveda) www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/pe...

Pure magic! Delighted and proud to present at tonight's Limerick Sings Choral Festival Gala Concert, starring vocal ensemble extraordinaire M'Anam & iconic director/composer @michaelmcglynn.bsky.social. Artists and gentlemen! #UCHlLmerick @rte.ie #lyricfm

What a fantastic first day at Bord Bia Bloom. 🌻 Make sure to pop by and say hi to us this June Bank Holiday at #Bloom2025 for more live shows, live music, chat and live RTÉ Weather. See rte.ie/about for details. RTÉ at Bord Bia Bloom 🌷 @lizlyricfm.bsky.social

After a wonderful (if dampish! 🌦) #BordBiaBloom show, heartfelt thanks to the women who make the #FullScore happen- magnificent producer Áine Fay & special guest production co-ordinator Lily Collins. The brains and beating heart of our on-air exploits! Thank you both so much 💃💙💃💙💃💙 @rte.ie lyric fm

Flower power! Myself and @rteco.rte.ie Principal Trumpet Shaun Hooke rocked the floral vibe at today's #FullScore at #BordBiaBloom- his t shirt designed and made by his brilliant daughter. Brava, Alice! 🌼🎉🎶 @rte.ie

Inspiring artistry, and the best of craic 'n' chat! What a pleasure and honour to interview Katherine Hunka, as she embarks on the next stage of her adventures after 25 years with Irish Chamber Orchestra. Filmed conversation 🎥 to be posted soon, ICO channels. Go n-éirí leat, dear Katherine! 🎻💐✨️

Now on sale: Summer Lunchtime with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and MARI SAMUELSEN 🎻 Performing Max Richter, Recomposed - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons & Arvo Pärt, Fratres Tue 29 July, 1.05pm NCH, Dublin Tickets €25 orchestra.rte.ie/events/4933/...

Now on sale: Summer Lunchtime with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra: Horn Concerto The RTÉ Concert Orchestra are joined by Hannah Miller for Anne Dudley’s Horn Concerto, Concitato, and more cinematic pieces composed by women. 26 Aug, NCH Dublin Tickets only €15 orchestra.rte.ie/events/4941/...

​🇱​​🇮​​🇬​​🇭​​🇹​​🇸​, ​🇨​​🇦​​🇲​​🇪​​🇷​​🇦​, ​🇨​​🇱​​🇦​​🇸​​🇸​​🇮​​🇨​​🇸​! The music of Verdi, Dvořák, Handel, Ponchielli, Puccini, Elgar, Massenet, Strauss, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Offenbach & Sibelius Sat 31 May - The Helix, Dublin thehelix.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Tomorrow evening!

Can't wait for these- a starry, spectacular summer ahead! @rte.ie lyric fm 💃🎶📻

An opera triumph at Birr Festival of Music! What a happy privilege, to present at a @rteco.rte.ie Opera Gala, conducted by Festival Director Niall Kinsella, and starring diamond🔷️🌼 diva Ava Dodd. Cheers, ovations and triumph under a summer evening sky😎🎉🎶! Bravi tutti, @rte.ie

So many stars! What a thrill, to share a stage with maestro Nicholas Chalmers, star✨️ soprano Ava Dodd, concertmaster Mia Cooper and the fantabulous @rteco.rte.ie for an operatic finale to our Spring Lunchtime Concert season, broadcast live on #FullScore. Bravi tutti! 🎶🎉✨️🌼 @rte.ie lyric fm

Tomorrow, Tues 29 April, join us live on RTÉ lyric fm for our next Summer Lunchtime concert. Conducted by Nic Chalmers and joined by soprano Ava Dodd, enjoy a splendour of Mozart, Puccini, Donizetti and Strauss. Presented by @lizlyricfm.bsky.social on The Full Score. 📷 Ava Dodd, Olivia da Costa

In the company of artists and gentlemen- @rteco.rte.ie Principal Guest Maestro Stephen Bell & international piano master Finghin Collins, following a Romantic and rapturous @rte.ie lyric fm Spring Lunchtime Concert! 🎶🎹🎉

Live NOW on The Full Score, @rte.ie lyric fm 📣 Presented by @lizlyricfm.bsky.social

Excitement's building! Hope to see you @rte.ie Radio Centre this Thursday 17 April, 1.30pm, for latest Spring Lunchtime Concert w/ @rteco.rte.ie dir. Stephen Bell, and Chopin's Piano Concerto No.2 starring Finghin Collins ✨️🎹. Last few audience tx going fast! Email [email protected] for yours.

The blissful recital partnership of soprano Ailish Tynan & pianist Fiachra Garvey lights up a West Wicklow Festival #FullScore concert- songs by Schubert, Richard Strauss, Barber, Muriel Herbert & more. So beautiful! Hope you can join us, 1-4pm @rte.ie lyric fm.

HAVE YOU GOT YOUR TICKET?! for our Spring Lunchtime Concert w/ @rteco.rte.ie,Thursday 17th April, 1.30pm. Live from Studio 1 @rte.ie - Stephen Bell cond. Liszt's Les Préludes, and Chopin's Piano Concerto No.2 w/ Finghin Collins. Email [email protected] to be part of a studio audience! #RTÉlyricfm.

Today's #FullScore features a new @hyperionrecords.bsky.social release of works by pianist & polymath Stephen Hough- his Sonatina, Partita & Piano Concerto "The World of Yesterday", w/ The Halle cond. Mark Elder. A multi-faceted soundworld from a master of our time- listen in, 1-4pm @rte.ie lyric fm

What an exciting and enriching occasion, to chat with violinist & composer Henning #Kraggerud on his art, and his lived experience in music! Thank you, Henning, and to Dominik and Irish Chamber Orchestra for the opportunity.

Absolutely thrilled to present at today's UCH LImerick Rising Stars ✨️ Gala! Featuring the artistry of Defne Gultoprak pf., Ben O'Brien cl , David Kennedy bar., Leanne Fitzgerald ms., & Matteo Lo Bracco vln. , joined by Dearbhla Collins pf. Here's to these starry virtuosi! 👏🇮🇪🎶🎉 @rte.ie #bestofirish

Live recording this Sunday in Dublin of RTÉ lyric fm's The Culture File Debate panel on the many meanings of quiet and loud with: poet, Paula Meehan, composer, Siobhán Cleary: Quiet Music Ensemble's John Godfrey; composer/performer, Christine Tobin. Pop along to NCH at 4pm, and stay for the musics!

With the Fab Four! At a UCH Limerick Classical Concert, as Con Tempo Quartet perform a 30th Anniversary 🎂🥳 recital- Mozart "Haydn" Quartet in D minor, Beethoven "Razumovsky" Quartet No.2, & "Pas de Quatre" by Rhona Clarke. A milestone matinée triumph! Recorded for future broadcast, @rte.ie lyric fm.

A garden of sound, in our first #FullScore Summer Lunchtime Concert w/ @rteco.rte.ie 🌼🎶✨️ Superb performances by RDS Music Bursary winners, tubist Adam Buttimer & Ben Gannon, under the baton of maestro Stephen Bell. Listen back via our webpage- @rte.ie lyric fm www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

News: Sofia Gubaidulina dies at age of 93 bachtrack.com/news-sofia-g...

Whoop! Announcing our Spring Season of #FullScore Lunchtime Concerts w/ @rteco.rte.ie - 3 fab performances, 26/03, 17/04 & 29/04, 1.30pm @rte.ie Radio Centre. W/ top soloists Ben Gannon & Adam Buttimer, Finghin Collins pf., & Ava Dodd. Apply for your audience tx! Go to: www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...

A marvellous matinée gathering! At a packed University Concert Hall #LimerickClassicalConcert, starring soprano Celine Byrne, cello Gerald Peregrine, violin Nicole Hudson & pianist David Munro. A garland of opera, operetta & popular song, recorded for future broadcast, #FullScore @rte.ie lyric fm.

Simply love this interview with the great Erollyn Wallen- what an inspiration. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

We're hiring! Principal Violin I, RTÉ Concert Orchestra Applications close Monday 7 April 📷 Image from our Feb 26 concert, A Night at the Oscars, credit Andres Poveda

Fabulous musical talent! 🎶🤩💯 A real pleasure to present at the #ddletb Festival of Music #NationalConcertHall- with top performances by students across classical, rock, trad, and more. Meet the superb Festival Quartet- Mark Rijal, Sam Monadero, Adam Joyce & Róisín Ní Dhúbhghaill!

Incoming: New standard by which to measure infamy.

A celebration of St. Agnes Orchestra Crumlin Late Starters Orchestra & Friends 15th Anniversary Concert, @thehelix- attended by @presidenti l & Mrs Sabina Higgins! My honour to present, @rte.ie lyricfm

A thrilling conclusion to #CelebratingtheVoice at National Concert Hall ! With a National,Symphony Orchestra Opera Gala, cond. Anu #Tali, featuring CtV participants & director Tara #Erraught 👸. A superb showcase of artistry, bravi tutti! 🎉🎶✨️👏 @rte.ie lyric fm